Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30468
Diagram: 630
11/09/58 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
2w/e 30/04/60 | Transferred to | 55F (Manningham) | |
3w/e 02/03/63 | Transferred to | 51A (Darlington) | |
4w/e 27/02/71 | Transferred to | 52J (South Gosforth) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
w/e 05/02/78 | Transferred to | DN (Darlington) | |
13/05/84 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | - Darlington closed |
10/05/90 | Withdrawn from | HT (Heaton) PXXZ |
56370 - original number
54370 - from Nov-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell
51212 | 56370 | As delivered to 56G - 11th September 1958 | |||||||
51212 | 56370 | Transfer to 55F - 2w/e 30/04/60 | |||||||
51212 | 56370 | Transfer to 51A - 3w/e 02/03/63 | |||||||
50219 | 56370 | Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle1 | |||||||
50199 | 56370 | Noted 06/04/72 - at Morpeth1 | |||||||
50231 | 56370 | Noted 09/06/73 - at Thornaby2 | |||||||
50165 | 56370 | Noted 11/1974 - at Newcastle 3 | |||||||
50165 | 56370 | Noted 07/01/75 - in Newcastle Central2 | |||||||
N128 | 50165 | 56370 | Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number only on 563702 | ||||||
50165 | 56370 | Noted 06/11/1976 - at Newcastle 3 | |||||||
50165 | 56370 | Noted 02/03/77 - at Pelaw | |||||||
50156 | 56370 | Noted 07/08/1978 - at York 3 | |||||||
51226 | 56370 | Noted 22/03/80 - with E50225 + E56409 on Newcastle - Middlesbrough service | |||||||
50157 | 56370 | Noted 14/04/1981 - Worked 11.50 Darlington to Saltburn.4 | |||||||
51226 | 56370 | Noted 26/06/82 - on Darlington depot | |||||||
51236 | 56370 | Noted 02/08/82 - at Grangetown | |||||||
50233 | 56370 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||||
53255 | 54370 | Noted circa 03/19854 | |||||||
53295 | 54370 | Noted circa 02/19864 | |||||||
51246 | 54370 | Noted 22/11/19864 | |||||||
53212 | 54370 | Noted 23/04/87 - at Cargo Fleet. | |||||||
51223 | 54370 | Noted 25/07/19874 | |||||||
53257 | 54370 | Noted 08/10/88 - on 12:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5 | |||||||
53257 | 54370 | Noted 08/10/88 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53257 | 54370 | Noted 29/10/88 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service5 | |||||||
53257 | 54370 | Listed at HT - Feb-89 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 22/05/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 25/05/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 03/06/89 - on 15:05 Hexham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 05/06/89 - on 18:20 Newcastle - Sunderland - service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 09/06/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 10/06/89 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 12/06/89 - on 18:20 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 19/06/89 - on 19:00 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 01/07/89 - on 10:30 Sunderland - Hexham service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 03/07/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 08/07/89 - on 16:10 Newcastle - Alnmouth5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 17/07/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 19/07/89 - on 17:15 Sunderland - Newcastle service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 12/08/89 - on 17:10 Newcastle - Durham service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 14/08/89 - on 18:00 Newcastle - Sunderland - service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 15/08/89 - on 16:05 Gateshead Metro Centre - Sunderland service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 16/08/89 - on 17:55 Hexham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 17/08/89 - on 10:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 19/08/89 - on 15:14 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
51217 | 54370 | Noted 04/11/89 - on 17:55 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service with 51467 + 53257 / 51516 + 51203 hauled by 47 462, believed to be football extra.5 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Graeme Phillips
South Gosforth allocated E56370 + E50165 head away from Pelaw on the 2nd March 1977. The destination blind displays Sunderland. Ian Francis.
E56370 + E51226 / E50225 + E56409 with a Newcastle - Middlesbrough service at North Shore, Stockton, on March 22, 1980. John Carter.
56370 and 51236 are seen at Grangetown, 2/8/82. Jerry Glover.
54370 and 53212 at Cargo Fleet, 23/04/87. Jerry Glover.
54370 + 51217 are being hauled by 31 458 when seen passing Oxbridge Sidings and the premises of TJ Thompsons just south of Stockton station on a Middlesbrough - Newcastle service, 29th August 1989. Jerry Glover.
E54370 at Snailwell on 25th September 1990. Destination blind has 'Sunderland' on it. Nicholas Youngman.
Class 101 E54370 in Snailwell on 25th September 1990. Nicholas Youngman.
Class 101 2-car DMU 51226 + 56370 in Darlington depot holding sidings on 26-6-82. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
31 458 is hauling 51217 + 54370 at Stockton on a Newcastle - Middlesbrough train on the 29th August 1989. Jerry Glover.
Class 47/4 47433 hauls dead DMU cars 51217 and 54370 at Carlisle with a local service to Newcastle on 31/08/89. This formation had been hauled around for at least a couple of days, so had not just failed. Acceleration with a Class 47 would have been brisk. Locomotive haulage of local services in the north-east were not uncommon through the 1980s, due to shortages of available DMUs, including failures of the then new Class 143 Pacers later in the decade. An influx of former Western Region Class 142s plus replacement of the troublesome SCG mechanical gearboxes with Voith hydraulic transmissions, from 1988, saw the eventual withdrawal of the last remaining Class 101s from the area in September 1989, although locomotive haulage of rakes of three coaches continued until 1990. Graeme Phillips Collection.