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 51915 during the unknown period are:
14/05/60 | New to | 6G (Llandudno Junction) | |
w/e 01/10/60 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
4w/e 31/12/60 | Transferred to | 8H (Allerton) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 8J |
Then the allocations for 56498 are:
18/01/87 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
01/10/89 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) PCFX | |
p/e 22/06/91 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) PLOX | |
29/07/91 | Withdrawn from | LO (Longsight) PLOX |
56498 - original number
54498 - from Jul-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
circa Sep-73 - AWS fitted
Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham
51915 | 56498 | As delivered to 6G - 14th May 1960 | |||||||
51919 | 56498 | Noted 04/08/68 - in Manchester Victoria1 | |||||||
51914 | 56498 | Noted 15/08/70 - in Manchester Oxford Road2 | |||||||
51418 | 56498 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight1 | |||||||
51419 | 56498 | Noted 01/09/72 - in Liverpool Lime Street1 | |||||||
51916 | 56498 | Noted 27/09/1976 - at Preston 3 | |||||||
50625 | 56498 | Noted 04/01/77 - in Liverpool Lime1 | |||||||
51421 | 56498 | Noted 12/09/1977 - 18.42 Newton-le-Willows to Lime Street with 50626-564994 | |||||||
51424 | 56498 | Noted circa 11/19824 | |||||||
51418 | 54498 | Noted circa 07/19874 | |||||||
51418 | 54498 | Noted 16/01/19884 | |||||||
CH251 | 51418 | 54498 | Listed at CH - May 1988 | ||||||
CH251 | 51418 | 54498 | Noted circa May-88 | ||||||
CH251 | 51418 | 54498 | Noted circa Jul-88 | ||||||
spare | 54498 | Listed at LO - Jul-91 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
Class 108 set with DTCL M56498 in green with a blue DMBS on a Chester - Manchester working at Mouldsworth, 4/May/1969. Note that while equipped with a 4-character headcode display, it is showing the 2-character DMU route code, a fairly common occurrence. Robert Chilton.
Class 108 set CH251 (presumably 51418 + 54498) at Crewe circa 1988. Hamish Stevenson.
Class 104 CH607 (M53439 + M53499) and Class 108 CH251 (M54498 + M51418) inside Llandudno Junction depot, 6-8-89. Kevin Dowd.