Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30602
Diagram: 646
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 51910 during the unknown period are:
30/04/60 | New to | 18A (Toton) | |
4w/e 31/12/60 | Transferred to | 8H (Allerton) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 8J | |
3w/e 31/10/65 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 8J (Allerton) |
Then the allocations for 56493 are:
04/07/83 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) | |
12/05/85 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
29/0985 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
02/03/86 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
04/05/86 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
07/12/86 | Transferred to | BY (Bletchley) | |
14/05/90 | Sector Change to | BY (Bletchley) NNDX | |
p/e 07/12/91 | Sector Change to | BY (Bletchley) NXXZ | |
23/12/91 | Withdrawn from | BY (Bletchley) NXXZ |
56493 - original number
54493 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
51910 | 56493 | As delivered to 18A - 30th April 1960 | |||||||
51908 | 56493 | Noted 04/11/68 - at Manchester Exchange1 | |||||||
51913 | 56493 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight1 | |||||||
51913 | 56493 | Noted 19/09/71 - at Crewe with 51904 + 56487 / 51906 + 56489 / 51917 + 56274 possibly subbing for a Class 304 if the current was switched off between Liverpool and Crewe1 | |||||||
50626 | 56493 | Noted 04/09/74 - at Allerton2 | |||||||
51913 | 56493 | Noted 13/08/1977 - 08.25 Lime Street to Bangor with 51417-56492 and 51918-564963 | |||||||
51913 | 56493 | Noted 24/08/1977 - at Mossley Hill working 07.11 Warrington Central - Lime Street3 | |||||||
51418 | 56493 | Noted 16/09/19773 | |||||||
51913 | 56493 | Noted 22/09/1977 - 07.40 Wigan NW to Lime Street with 51901-562793 | |||||||
51925 | 56493 | Noted circa 05/19823 | |||||||
51422 | 56493 | Noted circa 11/19823 | |||||||
51911 | 56493 | Noted circa 03/19833 | |||||||
51922 | 54493 | Noted circa 01/19843 | |||||||
51922 | 54493 | Listed at LO - 01/01/85 | |||||||
51922 | 54493 | Formation change - CH - circa Mar-86 | |||||||
51922 | 54493 | Noted circa 03/19863 | |||||||
TS203 | 51922 | 54493 | Formation change - TS - 2w/e 14/05/86 | ||||||
TS203 | 51922 | 54493 | Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986 | ||||||
TS203 | 51922 | 54493 | Noted circa 06/19863 | ||||||
TS203 | 51922 | 54493 | Noted 30/07/1986 - at Derby - as 8 car set with TS204, TS200 and TS2074 | ||||||
53628 | 54493 | Noted 28/12/19863 | |||||||
51942 | 54493 | Noted 25/01/19873 | |||||||
51942 | 54493 | Noted 07/05/87 - on Bletchley - Kettering service | |||||||
51942 | 54493 | Noted circa 11/19873 | |||||||
51912 | 54493 | Noted circa 03/19883 | |||||||
51912 | 54493 | Noted circa 06/19883 | |||||||
51912 | 54493 | Noted circa 02/19913 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Robert Chilton
Two car Class 108 dmu, 54493 + 51942, crosses from down main to down slow at Kettering Junction. The service had originated at Bletchley and would terminate in another mile or so at Kettering. The destination blind shows "St. Albans Abbey". Taken on May 7, 1987. Mike Dean.
A Class 108 2-car DMU, consisting of 54493/51942, departs Wellingborough on May 8, 1987, with a working to Corby during the short period between 1987-1990 that Corby station was open on an "experimental" basis. Lewis Bevan.
A 2-car Class 108 DMU (with coaches 54493/51942) in Platform 1 at Kettering on 16 July 1987. I have this down as the 13.35 Kettering-Corby, but this platform faces south. Did the 13.35 depart south from Kettering with passengers, and then reverse to travel north? Or was the unit about to shunt over to Platform 3 to pick up passengers for its departure? Lewis Bevan.
In January 1988 a Class 108 DMU formed of 54493 + 51912 is seen at Watford North en-route to St Albans Abbey. Dave Warby.
Sitting in the St Albans Abbey branch platform (11) at Watford Junction on 1 January 1988 is a Class 108 DMU formed of 54493 + 51912. Dave Warby.
51912 (closest) and 54493 head away from Watford North station with a St Albans Abbey service in January 1988. Dave Warby.
A Class 108 DMU (51912 + 54493) stabled in sidings at Bedford between duties on the Kettering to Corby shuttle service, 28 May 1988. Brian Creasey.