Vehicle 56026 / 54026

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Class 114

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30210
Diagram: 641

Allocations

17/01/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
3w/e 04/07/59	Transferred to	41A (Darnall)
4w/e 28/04/62	Transferred to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
10/05/87	Stored U.	LN (Lincoln)
Jun-88	Reinstated	LN (Lincoln)
Jun-88	To Parcels Sector at	CA (Cambridge)
p/e 02/12/89	Sector Change to	CA (Cambridge) RPXX
28/03/90	Withdrawn from	CA (Cambridge) RPXX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56026 - original number
54026 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 23/11/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50026	56026							As delivered to 40A - 17th January 1957
	50026	56026							Transfer to 40A - 4w/e 28/04/62
	50026	56026							Noted Summer 1964 - at Brough with 50035 + 560091
	50026	56026							Noted 22/04/66 - in Doncaster1
	50026	56026							Noted May 1968
	50046	56026							Noted 01/04/69 - at Sheffield Midland1
	50022	56026							Noted 02/05/70 - at Doncaster1
	50022	56026							Noted 15/08/1970 - at York2
	50022	56026							Noted 15/08/1970 - at York2
	50011	56026							Noted 02/01/71
	50026	56026							Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster3
	50026	56026							Noted 28/04/73 - at Neville Hill open day1
	50022	56026							Noted 24/08/74 - at Sheffield Midland4
	50012	56026							Noted 13/09/1975 - at Cleethorpes2
	50012	56026							Noted 27/10/75 - at Brough1
	50002	56026							Noted Sep-76 - at Sheffield1
	50020	56026							Noted 24/09/77 - at Nottingham4
	50020	56026							Noted 20/12/77 - at Nottingham4
	50020	56026							Noted 20/05/78 - at Bury St Edmunds4
	50004	56026							Noted circa 04/19825
	53042	54026							Noted 18/02/19845
	53020	54026							Noted 08/12/1984 - BLS The Whitehall Mandarin Railtour 53020+54026 + 51832+51816
	53026	54026							Noted 20/05/86 - at Peterborough4
	53020	54026							Noted 03/05/89
	53035	54026							Noted 16/05/89 - at Norwich4

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

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20th July 1988

54026/53035 passes Manchester Victoria, westbound, on a parcels working, on the afternoon of 20/7/88. Note the Express Parcels lettering on the leading car and red and yellow striping down its side. Leonard Rogers.

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1st September 1988

54026 Class 114 is seen passing Saltley working for the Parcels sector on 01.09.1988. Note the Royal Mail branding on the side. Andy Cole.

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circa 1989

Class 114 parcels vehicle E54026 in Leeds station. Undated, circa 1989. The passenger seats have been removed from all but the front saloon. Malcolm Clements.

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circa late 1989/early 1990

54026 at Cambridge. Undated, but the missing windows suggests the vehicle is out of use so circa late 1989 or early 1990, possibly with 53035. Malcolm Clements.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 30th October 1980

The 10.26 Doncaster - Cambridge dmu service, one of three southbound passenger services still serving the joint line in 1980. The setting is Murrow West. This was at one time the site of a flat crossing with the M&GN Peterborough - Wisbech - Sutton Bridge line on which, until its closure in 1959, the hamlet of Murrow had the extravagant facilities of a further station named Murrow East. On 30th October 1980 motoring past are Lincoln based Class 114 Derby 'heavyweight' set E50046 + E56026 leading Norwich allocated Cravens Class 105 unit E56480 + E51261 (set 65). Gerard Fletcher.

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Date: 8th December 1984

The Branch Line Society Whitehall Mandarin railtour at Deepcar on 8 December 1984. Six Bells Junction lists the vehicles as 53020 + 54026 / 51832 + 51816. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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Date: 12th July 1987

Keith has noted Class 105 Departmental DMU TDB977453, DMUs 53026, 54026, 54039 and 53005 in this view of Lincoln depot on 12 July 1987. In the platform on the left are the two departmental 100s: 975539 + 975349 and 975637 + 975664; it looks like the Cravens is next in that line, presumably its partner is 977454. Keith Miller.

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Date: 3rd May 1989

Passing through Northampton Station on the centre road is a parcels working formed of a 2-car Class 114 Derby Heavyweight (53020 and 54026). May 3rd, 1989. AndrewHA.

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Date: 4th November 1989

TDB977126 and behind seen are 977124, 977125, 977123 and 54026 at Cambridge on 4th November 1989. Nicholas Youngman.

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Date: circa late 1989/early 1990

Route learning Class 105 TDB977123 faces Express Parcels Class 114 E54026 at Cambridge circa late 1989/early 1990. Malcolm Clements.

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Date: unknown

An out of use Parcels Sector Class 114 DMBS coupled to 54026 at Cambridge, circa 1990. Possibly 53035. Malcolm Clements.