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Vehicle 56042 / 54042

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
21/06/87	Stored U.	LN (Lincoln)
04/10/87	To Parcels Sector at	TS (Tyseley)
27/11/88	Transferred to	CA (Cambridge)
19/04/89	Withdrawn from	CA (Cambridge) RPXX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56042 - original number
54042 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

08/11/79 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 22/11/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50042	56042	As delivered to 40A - 8th March 1957
	50031	56042	Noted 24/07/65 - at Brough with 50004 + 56004¹
	50026	56042	Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster with 50023 + 56023¹
	50038	56042	Noted 23th May 1968
	50009	56042	Noted 01/04/69 - in Sheffield Midland¹
	50042	56042	Noted 02/01/70 - in Sheffield Midland²
	50042	56042	Noted 02/05/70 - at Doncaster¹
	50042	56042	Noted 12/08/1971 - at York³
	50042	56042	Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster with 50018 + 56018¹
	50027	56042	Noted 05/07/74 - at Sheffield¹
	50037	56042	Noted 03/08/1974 - at Nottingham⁴
	50037	56042	Noted 03/01/75 - in Leeds City²
	50002	56042	Noted 16/01/76 - at Brough¹
	50042	56042	Noted 18/06/80 - at Norwich²
	50039	56042	Noted circa 02/1983⁵
	53039	54042	Noted circa 05/1984⁵
	53010	54042	Noted circa 05/1985⁵
	53046	54042	Noted 30/05/87 - on 16:05 Hull - Sheffield via Rotherham Central⁶
T021	53038	54042	Noted 24th January 1988
T021	53038	54042	Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988

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

Images:

11th April 1981

A Class 114 DMU (56042 + 50038) on Doncaster station with the 15:15 Hull-Manchester Piccadilly service on 11 April 1981. Robert Thomas.

18th April 1981

E56042 + E50038 New Holland Pier on April 18, 1981. A shame the ferry wasn't allowed to continue once the Humber Bridge was built. It would probably be still well used by train passengers between Hull and North Lincolnshire John Carter.

18th April 1981

A Class 114 Derby Heavyweight DMU at New Holland Town on April 18 1981 formed of DTC E56042 and DMBS E50038. John Carter.

14th June 1987

The 49-strong fleet of Class 114 2-car DMUs spent most of their working lives based at Lincoln depot. Although a local type with standard bus seating, they had a wide sphere of operation in Eastern England, covering Lincolnshire, Humberside, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire, but regularly worked deeper into West / North Yorkshire, reaching Darlington in the north and Peterborough in the south. They often worked into Leeds on services to / from Sheffield, and here, 53046 & 54042 are sen at City station with a Sheffield service on 14/06/1987. Graeme Phillips Collection.

5th December 1987

Set number: T021

Class 114 54042, set number T021, is seen at Tyseley on 05.12.1987 with Red Star branding having been taken over by the Parcels sector. Andy Cole.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 20th April 1987

E53044 + E54042 at Malton with a York - Scarborough service on 20 April 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 26th December 1987

Set number: T021

Class 114 DMBS 53038, part of set T021 (presumably with 54042), is seen with Red Star parcels branding on the side at Tyseley on 26.12.1987. Andy Cole.

Date: 10th May 1988

Set number: T021

A Class 114 set led by 53038, carrying Tyseley set number T021 (and presumably with 54042), branded "Red Star" and displaying "Bingham" in the destination blind passes the remains of Burton Latimer & Isham station with an up service. The up slow has already been lifted and the last remains of the down slow are being dealt with. A quarter of a century later, a third track was re-instated. Mike Dean.

Date: 28th November 1988

Set number: T021

Tyseley DMU depot includes Class 114 Derby 2-car parcel DMU T021 (53038 + 54042) and another unidentified set plus high density stock (including 51867 from T412 on the left) on 28-11-88. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

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