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Vehicle 56250 / 54250

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 50967 during the unknown period are:

13/06/59	New to	24F (Fleetwood)
w/e 03/06/61	Transferred to	6A (Chester)
w/e 07/01/67	Transferred to	9A (Longsight)
2w/e 11/05/68	Transferred to	10E (Accrington)

Then the allocations for 56250 are:

w/e 07/02/70	Transferred to	12A (Carlisle Kingmoor)
Nov-70	Transferred to	10E (Accrington)
Oct-72	Transferred to	9D (Newton Heath)
May-73	Depot code change	NH
Jan-81	Transferred to	KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)
07/02/88	Withdrawn from	KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)

Notes

August 1988 - Seen grounded in Carnforth Yard

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56250 - original number
54250 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

56250 was involved in the following incident:

05/02/88 - Carnforth Up Furness line at Bottom End Yard

Collision involving Class 108 / Wagon

Info from Andrew Pilkington

The Class 108 DMU hit an engineers wagon. More Details.

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, on location at Carnforth

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

50967	56250	As delivered to 24F - 13th June 1959
50965	56250	Noted 25/11/67 - at Guide Bridge¹
50967	56250	Transfer to 12A - w/e 07/02/70
50969	56250	Noted 03/09/73 - at Preston²
50967	56250	Noted 05/09/73 - at Preston²
50967	56250	Noted 17/08/77 - at Windermere with M50776 + M50809
50967	56250	Noted circa 08/1981³
50967	56250	Noted 01/06/82 - on 15:38 Carlisle to Barrow
53967	54250	Noted 29/03/1984 - on Kirkham - Blackpool Soute service³
53967	54250	Listed at KD - 01/01/85
53967	54250	Listed at Carlisle Kingmoor - Summer 1986
53967	54250	Noted circa 11/1986³
53967	54250	Noted 18/04/1987 - Barrow connection for BR Mystery Excursion (Carlisle-Great Yarmouth)
53967	54250	Noted 06/06/1987 - Barrow connection from BR Inverness-Preston excursion
53967	54250	Listed at KD - circa Jan-88

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn

Images:

14th October 1978

With the former East Lancashire entrance building in Butler Street on the skyline, a pair of two-car Carlisle Kingmoor allocated Class 108's were stood at the North end of platform 5 at Preston on October 14th 1978. The nearest set was formed of Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) M56250 coupled with Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50967. The units had bars on the droplights due to limited clearances on the Cumbrian Coast line between Maryport and Carlisle. On February 5th 1988, M56250 was involved in a collision at Carnforth with an engineers wagon, and it ended its days grounded at Carnforth Midland Bottom End Yard until it was scrapped on site. Martyn Hilbert.

5th May 1984

A two-car Class 108 DMU with Driving Trailer 54250 leading (and presumably with DMBS 53967), was accelerating away from Kirkham North Junction on the last lap of its 12 mile journey along the Coast Line with the 10.30 Blackpool South to Kirkham service on May 5th 1984. These were the days when the Coast Line via Lytham was still double track and other than a through working to Manchester Victoria on a Weekday morning and a corresponding return service in an evening, the core service ran between Blackpool South & Kirkham only, with the units utilising the reversing siding located beyond the East end of the platform at Kirkham station. Martyn Hilbert.

23rd March 1987

M54250 + M53967 leads another Class 108 departing from Appleby on March 23, 1987. John Carter.

12th July 1987

DTS(L) M54250 (presumably paired with DMBS 53967) leads a four-car formation passing Settle Junction at 4:07pm with a service bound for Carlisle, 12/7/87. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 108 DMU at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard

1988

54250 grounded at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. It, and 53967 to the right, had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year. Andrew Pilkington.

1988

Grounded Class 108 DTC 54250 at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. It had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year, was withdrawn on February 7th 1988 an spent at least a year hidden in the yard behind engineers wagons and would eventually be cut up on site. Andrew Pilkington.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 17th August 1977

Windermere on the 17th August 1977. The unit, M50776 + M50809 + M50967 + M56250 still has 'Barrow' on the blinds. Robert Frise.

Date: 24th February 1979

British Rail Class 108 Derby Lightweight DMU 50967 + 56250, approaching St. Annes-on-the-Sea. The DMU was working a Blackpool South - Kirkham train, Saturday 24 February 1979 The photograph is taken from St. Annes signal box, looking north. Ian 10B.

Date: 19th April 1980

Sunlight & shade and with the former Furness Railway platform canopies in faded/worn BR maroon & cream, a two-car Class 108 DMU formed of cars M50967 & M56250 was stood at Ulverston with a Lancaster to Barrow-In-Furness service on the evening of April 19th 1980. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 1st June 1982

A Class 108 DMU formed of recently repainted M50967 + M56250 await to depart from Carlisle with the 15:38 to Barrow on June 1st, 1982. 86 320 is in the background. John Carter.

Date: 1988

53967 and 54250 (grounded) at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. They had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year. Andrew Pilkington.

Date: 1988

Damage to 53967 at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. It and 54250 had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year, this is the No 1 bogie (cab end), the buckling suggests this would have been the rearmost (fourth) bogie in the direction of travel, yet still collided with sufficient force to cause considerable damage to the steel bogie frame. Andrew Pilkington.

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