Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30468
Diagram: 630
3w/e 17/05/58 | New to | 62B (Dundee) | |
4w/e 29/08/59 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 64H (Leith Central) | |
12/10/69 | On loan to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
02/11/69 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
w/e 15/08/76 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
06/07/86 | Transferred to | NC (Norwich) | |
2w/e 13/03/88 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) | |
p/e 30/03/91 | Transferred to | RG (Reading) NWRX | |
22/04/93 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) NWRX | |
27/04/93 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) NWRX |
56385 - original number
54385 - from Jul-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
02/10/76 - AWS fitted
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
51227 | 56385 | As delivered to 62B - May 1958 | |||||||
51227 | 56385 | Noted 6th June 1958 | |||||||
51227 | 56385 | Transfer to 66C - 4w/e 29/08/59 | |||||||
51227 | 56385 | Transfer to 64H - 3w/e 30/04/66 | |||||||
51238 | 56385 | Noted 29/08/70 - at Selby1 | |||||||
51229 | 56385 | Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster2 | |||||||
51252 | 56385 | Noted 24/04/1973 - at Scarborough3 | |||||||
50370 | 56385 | Noted 16/03/1974 - at York3 | |||||||
H20 | 51225 | 56385 | Noted 02/01/75 - at Selby, set number H27 on 563854 | ||||||
50372 | 56385 | Noted 20/11/75 - at Brough1 | |||||||
50157 | 56385 | Noted 10/02/76 - at Brough1 | |||||||
50157 | 56385 | Noted 27/02/76 - at Huddersfield1 | |||||||
50202 | 56385 | Noted circa 01/19775 | |||||||
50202 | 56385 | Noted 11/04/77 - at York1 | |||||||
50202 | 56385 | Noted 29/06/80 - at Morecambe6 | |||||||
50202 | 56385 | Noted circa 03/19835 | |||||||
53202 | 54385 | Listed at NL - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53202 | 54385 | Noted circa 05/19865 | |||||||
53202 | 54385 | Transfer to NC - 06/07/86 - from NL | |||||||
53202 | 54385 | Noted 13/09/1986 - at Peterborough7 | |||||||
70 | 53202 | 54385 | Formed at NC circa Oct-86 | ||||||
70 | 53202 | 54385 | Listed at NC - Apr-87 | ||||||
70 | 53202 | 54385 | Noted 20/06/19875 | ||||||
70 | 53202 | 54385 | Listed at NC - Dec-87 | ||||||
L205 | 51443 | 54385 | Formation change - OO - 2w/e 13/03/88 - 54385 replaced 53155 (to spare) | ||||||
L205 | 51443 | 54385 | Listed at OO - 15/05/89 | ||||||
L205 | 51443 | 54385 | Noted circa 12/19905 | ||||||
L205 | 51443 | 54385 | Listed at OO - 21/01/91 | ||||||
L205 | 51367 | 54385 | Listed at RG - 24/02/92 - NSE NWRX pool | ||||||
L205 | 51367 | 54385 | Noted circa 08/19925 | ||||||
L205 | 51367 | 54385 | Listed at RG - 12/08/92 | ||||||
L205 | 51367 | 54385 | Listed at RG - November 1992 - Sector NWRX |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Shayne Lewis
7: Robert Chilton
A two-car Met-Camm set in York station, E56385 closest, date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Network South East liveried Metro Cammell class 101 unit L205 (presumably 54385 visible) seen at Twyford one summer's evening in 1989. Bob Belcher.
Class 101 set L205 (presumably 54385 + 51443) on the 0845 Slough - Windsor awaits departure at Slough on Saturday 18th February 1989. Colin Brooks.
A Class 101 Met Camm DMU waits to depart Banbury for Oxford in summer 1989. Murray Liston.
Met Camm set L205 (51443 + 54385) had arrived at Banbury in Summer 1989 and was about to run round north of the station to form a service back to Oxford. Murray Liston.
L205 54385+51367 stands in platform 7 at Reading awaiting departure with the 19:35 service to Didcot on Saturday 5th October 1991. Ian Hazlehurst.
Two hybrid DMUs arriving at Langley on Thursday 25/06/1992: 101/117 set L205 (54385 + 51367) and 101/116 set L210 (54381 + 53083). Andrew Malloy.
A Class 101 power-trailer set passes the washing plant on its journey away from Hull, date unknown. The DTC is either 56365 or 56385 and has Bridlington on the destination blind. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A visit (my only one, so far) to Ilkley on 5 May 1979. I travelled on the 10.27 from Leeds, formed of Metro-Cam Class 101 2-car unit 56385/50202, and this unit is seen departing from Ilkley on its next working back to Leeds, past Ilkley signal box. Ilkley Junction box, which dated from 1913, was closed as from 11 July 1994 in the run-up to the electrification of the line. According to Wikipedia "Ilkley is notable in that it was the last British Rail station to be lit by gas. The gas lights were extinguished for the last time on 8 May 1988." Lewis Bevan.
Set L205 (presumably 51443 + 54385) heads towards Banbury through the closed Aynho station in Summer 1989. Murray Liston.
Met Camm set L205 (51443 + 54385) rolls past Banbury North box to enter the station having run round to form a southbound service for Oxford, taken in the summer of 1989. Murray Liston.
Class 101 DMU set L205 (51443 + 54385) at Reading on 16 September 1990. Sparegang.
Class 121 DMBS 55028 with Class 101 54385 and 51443 arriving at Iver station with an unidentified up working on 17 December 1990. Dave Warby.
Met-Camm DMU set L205 (51443 + 54385) at Marlow after terminating with the 12:29 from Maidenhead on May 22, 1991. John Carter.
DMU set L205 (51387 and presumably 54385) heads away from Oxford circa 1992. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 117 / 101 hybrid L205 (51367 / 54385). London Paddington, circa 1992. Malcolm Clements.
Hybrid NSE-liveried set L205, formed of Class 117 51367 and Class 101 54385, sits in Marlow station on May 4th, 1992. Stuart Mackay Collection.
On May 4th, 1992, Class 117 51367 and Class 101 54385 sit in Bourne End station working the 15:56 Marlow - Maidenhead service. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Two hybrid DMUs at Langley on Thursday 25/06/1992: 116/101 set L210 (53083 + 54381) and 117/101 set L205 (51367 + 54385). Andrew Malloy.