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Vehicle 56236 / 54236

Class 108

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30466
Diagram: 640

Allocations

The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 50953 during the unknown period are:

28/02/59	New to	6K (Rhyl)	- stored pending allocation
Jun-59	Transferred to	9E (Trafford Park)
4w/e 01/06/63	Transferred to	9A (Longsight)
4w/e 06/11/65	Transferred to	9D (Newton Heath)
w/e 06/05/67	Transferred to	9A (Longsight)

Then the allocations for 56236 are:

4w/e 05/04/69	Transferred to	12A (Carlisle Kingmoor)
06/05/73	Depot code change	KM
Jan-75	Depot code change	KD
15/05/88	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
07/07/91	Transferred to	LO (Longsight) PLOX
p/e 09/11/91	Sector Change to	LO (Longsight) PXXZ
26/11/91	Withdrawn from	LO (Longsight) PXXZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56236 - original number
54236 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

Sep-72 - AWS fitted

Disposal

Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50953	56236	As delivered to - 28th February 1959 - stabled at 6K, pending allocation
	50953	56236	Noted mid-March 1959
	50952	56236	Noted 31/08/71 - at Carlisle¹
	50962	56236	Noted 04/03/72 - on last service train to Keswick with 56244 + 50951 and SRPS railtour formed 51538 + 59566 + 51468
	50963	56236	Noted 04/1973²
	50963	56236	Noted 25/08/1973 - at Carlisle³
	50932	56236	Noted 29/08/74 - at Carlisle⁴
	50952	56236	Noted 01/09/74 - at Barrow⁴
	50955	56236	Noted 05/12/75 - at Carlisle¹
	50954	56236	Noted 22/05/76 - at Carnforth¹
	50957	56236	Listed at KD - circa Aug-80
	50957	56236	Noted 12/08/80 - at Seascale
	50957	56236	Noted circa 03/1982⁵
	53957	54236	Listed at KD - 01/01/85
	53957	54236	Noted circa 02/1986⁵
	53957	54236	Listed at Carlisle Kingmoor - Summer 1986
	53957	54236	Noted 25/05/87 - on 13:37 Millom-Lancaster
	53957	54236	Listed at KD - circa Jan-88
	53957	54236	Noted 03/08/88 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁶
	53957	54236	Listed at HT - Feb-89
	53957	54236	Noted 04/02/89 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 18/02/89 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 25/03/89 - on 14:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 25/03/89 - on 15:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 30/03/89 - on 17:45 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 15/04/89 - on 15:00 Hexham - Newcastle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 12/05/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle⁶
	53958	54236	Noted 24/06/89 - on 14:35 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 07/08/89 - on 12:50 Carlisle - Whitehaven⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 07/08/89 - on 15:40 Carlisle - Whitehaven⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 07/08/89 - on 11:00 Whitehaven - Carlisle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 07/08/89 - on 14:08 Whitehaven - Carlisle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 16/08/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 21/08/89 - on 14:15 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness between 53953 + 54262 and 54238 + 53956⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 30/08/89 - on 06:30 Newcastle - Seaham service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 02/09/89 - on 12:50 Carlisle - Whitehaven⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 02/09/89 - on 14:08 Whitehaven - Carlisle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 02/09/89 - on 09:02 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 09/09/89 - on 11:05 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 09/09/89 - on 09:00 Whitehaven - Carlisle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 16/09/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 16/09/89 - on 09:02 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 23/09/89 - on 11:05 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 18/10/89 - on 17:00 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 28/10/89 - on 17:43 Carlisle - Newcastle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 11/11/89 - on 10:00 Whitehaven - Carlisle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 23/11/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 25/11/89 - on 14:46 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 03/02/90 - on 10:15 Barrow-in-Furness - Carlisle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 03/02/90 - on 14:15 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 09/02/90 - at Millom⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 18/06/90 - on 09:56 Whitehaven - Carlisle⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 01/08/90 - on 21:10 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁶
	53957	54236	Noted 06/10/90 - on 09:10 Newcastle - Barrow-in-Furness⁶
LO285	53969	54236	Listed at LO - Aug-91

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Graeme Phillips

Images:

12th August 1980

M56236 + M50957 pass along the Cumbrian Coast at Seascale, 12/8/80. Robert Frise.

1991

Set number: LO285

Class 108 sets LO257 (presumably 53970) and LO285 (presumably 54236 + 53969) are seen at Manchester Piccadilly in late 1991. Simon Barnes.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 4th March 1972

The Penrith to Keswick branch closed on the 6th of March 1972, and this was taken on the 4th of March. It shows the 12.10 Penrith to Keswick service between Threlkeld and Low Brierly Halt, formed of two Class 108s, believed to be M50962/56236 and M56244/50951. On the front is a three-car Met-Camm on an SRPS railtour from Edinburgh Waverley which joined the service train at Penrith, formed Sc51538/59566/51468. Vehicle numbers from https://flic.kr/p/4JVX9U. The KDH Archive.

Date: 4th March 1972

The Penrith to Keswick branch closed on the 6th of March 1972, and this was taken on the 4th of March. Its shows the 12.10 Penrith to Keswick service between Threlkeld and Low Brierly Halt. The 108s are believed to be M50962/56236 (far end) and M56244/50951 (closest), there is also a Met-Camm in the formation at the far end out of view on an SRPS railtour. The KDH Archive.

Date: 4th March 1972

The 13.15 Keswick-Penrith at Threlkeld on 4th March 1972. Left to right are Sc51538/59566/51468 + M50962/56236 + M56244/50951 - the Met-Camm is on an SRPS railtour. The KDH Archive.

Date: 4th March 1972

The Penrith to Keswick branch closed on the 6th of March 1972, and this was taken on the 4th of March. It shows the 13.15 Keswick to Penrith service at Threlkeld. Left to right - M50962/56236 and M56244/50951 (numbers from RW Carroll image) - and behind the tree on the left is 51468. The KDH Archive.

Date: 4th March 1972

The Penrith to Keswick branch closed on the 6th of March 1972, and this was taken on the 4th of March. It shows the 14.15 Penrith to Keswick service at Threlkeld. The Met-Camm was on an SRPS railtour from Edinburgh, attached at Penrith. The vehicles are believed to be Sc51538/59566/51468 + M50962/56236 + M56244/50951 (from https://flic.kr/p/4JVX9U). The KDH Archive.

Date: 4th March 1972

The Penrith to Keswick branch closed on the 6th of March 1972, and this was taken on the 4th of March. It shows the 15.30 Keswick to Penrith service possibly at Threlkeld. The vehicle are believed to be M50951/56244 + M56236/50962 + Sc51468/59566/51538, the Met-Camm on an SRPS railtour. The KDH Archive.

Date: 4th March 1972

Two Class 108 DMUs at Threlkeld station on 4th March 1972. This was the last day of services on the Penrith to Keswick branch, and the vehicles are believed to be M50962/56236 and M56244/50951. George Woods.

Date: 4th March 1972

Two Class 108 DMUs at Keswick on the last day of services to Penrith on 4 March 1972. The vehicles are believed to be M50962/56236 and M56244/50951. George Woods.

Date: 4th March 1972

Two Class 108 DMUs (believed to be M50951/56244 M56236/50962) in Keswick station on 4 March 1972. George Woods.

Date: 4th March 1972

A Met-Camm DMU on an SRPS railtour from Edinburgh leads two Class 108s on the Penrith - Keswick service train into Keswick on the last day of services, 4th March 1972. The vehicles are believed to be Sc51538/59566/51468 + M50962/56236 + M56244/50951 (numbers from https://flic.kr/p/4JVX9U). George Woods.

Date: 4th March 1972

Arriving into Penrith are two Class 108s on the Keswick - Penrith service train with a Met-Camm DMU attached on an SRPS railtour from Edinburgh on 4th March 1972. The vehicles are believed to be M50951/56244 + M56236/50962 + Sc51468/59566/51538. George Woods.

Date: 25th May 1987

A location less often visited by most modern traction photographers in the 1970s and ‘80s was Barrow-in-Furness. On Monday May 25 1987 53957 + 54236 arrive at the station (which was rebuilt after wartime bomb damage) with the 1337 Millom-Lancaster. Mel Holley.

Date: 9th February 1990

Believed to be an empty coaching stock (ECS) move, cars E53957 E54236 are captured at Millom (Cumbria) on 9/2/90. These were part of the batch of Class 108s that had long been allocated to Kingmoor (KD) depot, Carlisle, but were transferred to Heaton (HT) depot, Newcastle, upon closure of the former in May 1988. They continued to operate Cumbria services until displaced by Class 153s in 1991. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Date: 13th September 1990

A Class 108 set formed of 53957 and 54236 are seen departing (12 minutes late) from Seaham on the 11:03 Middlesbrough - Hexham, 13/6/90. This was one of the majority of Kingmoor (Carlisle - KD) depot's units that were transferred to Heaton (Newcastle - HT) depot in May 1988 when KD closed (the remainder went to Chester - CH), but still intended for use in Cumbria. Thereafter, these power-trailer sets appeared on certain generously timed Newcastle-Carlisle services, presumably as a means of getting to / from their new depot. They also made occasional appearances on other north-east local services, but their inferior power:weight ratio meant they usually struggled to keep time on Pacer schedules, as was probably the case on the service illustrated. Graeme Phillips.

Date: 16th September 1991

Set number: LO285

Set LO285 approaching Cuddington on the 11.43 Chester to Manchester Piccadilly on 16/9/91. 54236 was the rear car. Presumably 53969 was leading. David Miller.

Date: 18th October 1991

31146 drags 53969 + 54236 + 54489 + 54231 as 5Z41 1011 Longsight to C.F Booths past New Mills, 18/10/91. Kevin Dowd.

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