Vehicle 56041 / 54041

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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

08/03/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
28/09/86	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)
19/10/86	To Parcels Sector at	LN (Lincoln)
21/06/87	Transferred to	CA (Cambridge)
19/12/87	Transferred to	TS (Tyseley)
27/11/88	Transferred to	CA (Cambridge)
04/06/90	Withdrawn from	CA (Cambridge) RPXX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56041 - original number
54041 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

02/02/80 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 04/11/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50041	56041							As delivered to 40A - 8th March 1957
	50041	56041							Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1
	50020	56041							Noted May 1968
	50040	56041							Noted 04/08/1971 - at Nottingham2
	50041	56041							Noted 05/08/1974 - at Sheffield 2
	50041	56041							Noted 24/08/74 - at Grimsby Town3
	50030	56041							Noted 08/09/75 - at Doncaster with 50026/560021
	50019	56041							Noted 30/04/76 - at Doncaster3
	50047	56041							Noted 21/02/77 - at Lincoln1
	50047	56041							Noted 24/03/77 - at Cambridge3
	50011	56041							Noted 16/01/19824
	50011	56041							Noted circa 02/19834
	53018	54041							Noted circa 01/19864
	53018	54041							Noted circa 08/19864
	53018	54041							Noted 19th August 1986
	53040	54041							Noted circa 10/1986 - Parcels set4
	53040	54041							19/10/86 LN - Reinstated to parcels sector
	53010	54041							Noted 02/01/867 - on Cambridge depot, parcel set3
	53010	54041							Noted 25th February 1987
	53027	54041							Noted 02/09/87
	53027	54041							Noted 08/11/87 - at Norwich, parcel set3
T022	53027	54041							Noted 21st February 1988
T022	53027	54041							Noted circa 04/19884
T022	53027	54041							Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
	53027	54041							Noted 26/07/88 - on 16:30 Doncaster-Skegness
	53027	54041							Noted 06/02/89 - parcels5
	53027	54041							Noted 29/11/89 - at Norwich3

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

Images:

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1978

A Class 114 DMU in white & blue Refurbished livery, led by E56041, is captured soon after departure from Doncaster, with a service to Sheffield, in 1978. Graeme Phillips Collection.

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circa September 1980

A Class 114 DMU, DTCL E56041 closest, in Barton-on-Humber station. The slide process date was September 1980. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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March 1983

With Nottingham showing on the blind, E56041 leads this 114 set over the crossing at Lincoln in March 1983. Eastwestdivide.

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21st August 1988

Set number: T022

Class 114 parcels set 54041 + 53027 heading towards Shrewsbury at Whitchurch Salop on 21-8-1988. Russ Burrows.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 11th July 1987

E53017 faces E54041 at Cambridge on the 11th July 1987. Malcolm Clements.

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Date: 12th August 1987

Class 114 E53027 + E54041 and Class 101 54050 + 53231 leave Ely with the 10.13 Cambridge to Peterborough, 12.08.87. Nicholas Youngman.

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Date: 26th December 1987

Set number: T022

Class 114 53027 is seen at Tyseley carriage sidings on 26.12.1987, presumably with 54041. Carrying set number T022, the Tyseley set numbers beginning with '0' were at this time were for the Parcels units. It had been transferred here from Cambridge that month. Andy Cole.