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Vehicle 56043 / 54043

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
04/10/87	Transferred to	TS (Tyseley)
30/10/91	Withdrawn from	TS (Tyseley) PXXZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56043 - original number
54043 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 17/02/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50043	56043	As delivered to 40A - 8th March 1957
	50043	56043	Noted 11/04/67 - at Sheffield Midland¹
	50043	56043	Noted 09/08/67 - at Hull¹
	50009	56043	Noted 02/05/70 - at Sheffield¹
	50011	56043	Noted 03/09/1971 - at York²
	50017	56043	Noted 01/10/1972 - with 50004 + 56004 on unknown railtour in Grantham / Doncaster / Leeds area.
	50017	56043	Noted 01/10/1972 - 50017-56043+50004-56004 working Grantham to Keighley and return special
	50017	56043	Noted 02/09/73 - at Retford³
	50004	56043	Noted 02/11/1974 - at Doncaster⁴
	50046	56043	Noted 29/10/75 - at York with 50001/56021¹
	50046	56043	Noted 10/01/76 - at Brough¹
	50001	56043	Noted 03/07/76 - on 1715 Nottingham-Derby
	50001	56043	Noted 09/12/76 - at Cambridge³
	50001	56043	Noted 03/03/77 - at Cambridge³
	50001	56043	Noted 16/12/77 - at Grantham³
	50012	56043	Noted 08/05/1982 - Special Train Cleethorpes-Spalding 50039-56001+56049-50033+50012-56043
	53012	54043	Noted circa 10/1983⁵
	53043	54043	Noted circa 05/1984⁵
	53033	54043	Noted 28/02/87 - on 12:00 Cleethorpes - Barton on Humber⁶
	53033	54043	Noted 28/02/87 - on 13:00 Barton on Humber - Cleethorpes⁶
	53044	54043	Noted 14/08/87
	53044	54043	Noted 29/08/1987⁵
T234	53044	54043	Noted circa 01/1988⁵
T234	53044	54043	Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
T234	53044	54043	Noted circa 12/1988⁵
T234	53044	54043	Listed at TS - 01/09/89
T024	53044	54043	New set number at TS - Nov-89 - ex-T234
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - 01/12/89
	53044	54043	Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot²
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - mid May-90
T024	53044	54043	Noted circa 12/1990⁵
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - Mar-91
T024	53044	54043	Noted 20/03/91 - at Crewe⁷
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - Jul-91
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - Aug-91

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

Images:

Unknown date

A Class 114 DMU with DTCL E56043 closest (the DMBS is possibly E50001) in Sheffield station, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

September 1978

A refurbished Class 114 DMU in Sheffield station with a Lincoln service in December 1978. DTCL E56043 is closest, while on the opposite platform is Class 123 E52102. Stuart Mackay Collection.

28th September 1980

Having travelled down the 1375ft long Pier from New Holland Pier Head, A Class 114 2-Car DMU formed of E56043 & E50001 in refurbished livery, stands at New Holland Town with a service to Cleethorpes on Sunday 28th September 1980. With the opening of the Humber Suspension Bridge in June 1981, and the subsequent withdrawal of the ferry service from New Holland Pier to Hull, the stations and the pier were all closed on June 24th 1981. Martyn Hilbert.

28th September 1980

In refurbished livery, A Class 114 2-Car DMU, formed of cars E50001 & E56043, waits to depart from a run-down looking New Holland Pier with a service to Cleethorpes on Sunday 28th September 1980. The linkspan connecting the station to the ferry landing stage can be seen to the right of the station building. A Morris Minor and a Mark 3 Ford Cortina are parked behind the buffer stops. In this period only one track was in situ at this end of the Pier. Martyn Hilbert.

24th October 1980

Despite succumbing to closure in September 1961, the platforms, station buildings and even the waiting shelter canopy were still intact at Cowbit on 24th October 1980, some two years before the line from March to Spalding closed completely. This Lincoln based Derby Heavyweight Class 114 DMU formed of cars E56043 & E50001 was working the 13.50 Cambridge - Doncaster local service, seen heading for its next stop at Spalding. In the early 1970s, the passenger service on the joint line was largely long distance loco hauled services, notably the Yarmouth - York, Newcastle - Norwich and Harwich - Manchester 'Boat Train' all used this route. In around 1974 DMUs took over being mainly supplied by Norwich and Lincoln depots, but occasionally Tyneside and Calder Valley sets would make appearances. Gerard Fletcher.

August 1987

A Class 114 Derby Heavyweight DMU arrived Platform 5 at Cambridge August 1987. The DTS has oval buffers and still has two windscreen wipers, many only had one by this period. That means it is probably 54043. On Tour With The Class 13 Army.

17th November 1987

Set number: T234

Class 114 DMU set T234 (presumably 54043 + 53044) departing St Andrews Road for Severn Beach on 17 November 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.

20th June 1989

Set number: T234

Class 114 DMU set formation no. T234 (presumably 54043 + 53044) is seen calling at Spondon, Derbyshire, with a Birmingham-Lincoln service, on Tuesday 20/06/1989. Graeme Phillips Collection.

9th January 1991

Set number: T024

Class 114 set T024 (with presumably 54043 closest) is seen in Leamington Spa on the 9th January 1991. On the left is 47 581. Mike Cooper.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: unknown

With its distinctive lowered destination indicated E50001 leads a Class 114 DMU in Sheffield station, date unknown. The DTCL is possibly E56043. Paul Redmond.

Date: 28th September 1980

In refurbished livery, Class 114 two-car DMU formed of E50001 & E56043 was stood at a run-down looking New Holland Town with a service from New Holland Pier to Cleethorpes on Sunday September 28th 1980. The station here and the 1,375 Yard Pier and the station at the Pier Head (and the connecting ferry service across the River Humber to Hull) was closed some nine months after this image was recorded. The last day of service was June 1st 1981, commensurate with the opening of the Humber Suspension Bridge. This place was in a time-warp, with BR Eastern Region blue enamel signage and mechanical signalling including some lower quadrants. This was my one and only visit to New Holland Pier, and my regret is that I did not have a ride on the DMU, photograph the Ferry, or by a ticket as a souvenir. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 28th September 1980

A refurbished Class 114 DMU formed of cars E56043 & E50001 arrives at New Holland Town with a service from Cleethorpes to New Holland Pier on September 28th 1980. There is much of interest in this view, including a pair of lower quadrant signals, the North to West curve towards Barton-On-Humber, Barrow Road Signal box and the level crossing giving vehicular access to the Pier and the ferry service across the Humber to Hull. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 28th September 1980

Class 114 Derby Heavyweight 2-Car DMU formed of cars E50001 & E56043 (E50001 was the first built, emerging from Derby in 1956), departs from New Holland Pier and runs along the 1,375 yard structure towards its next stop at New Holland Town on September 28th 1980. There is a air of dereliction all around, the pier closed to passenger trains following the opening of the Humber Suspension Bridge in June 1981. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 12th May 1987

E53044 & E54043 at Derby on 12/05/87. Steve Jones.

Date: 14th August 1987

Class 114 E53044 + E54043 pass through Queen Adelaide with the 16.50 Peterborough to Cambridge, 14.08.87. Nicholas Youngman.

Date: 17th November 1987

Set number: T234

Class 114 vehicles 53044 + 54043 were reallocated from Lincoln to Tyseley (their first move since new) at the start of October 1987 becoming set T234. Here the set is seen a few weeks later on 17 November in Bristol Temple Meads and was noted as ready to work the 12:53 to Severn Beach. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 30th April 1990

Set number: T24

By April 1990 class 114 units had largely taken over local trains between Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa. This is T024 (53044 + 54043) in platform 2 at Stratford on 30 April with the 17.12 departure with a couple of tourists appearing to be asking if this was their service. The people on the platform were waiting for the 17.30 train to Birmingham which was about to arrive in platform 1. Peter Tandy.

Date: 5th July 1990

A rather indistinct shot from a passing train of cl.114 nos.53044/54043 at Leamington on 5/7/90. Despite what the platform clock says, the time was ca. 15.50 and the unit may have formed an incoming service from either Hatton or Stratford-upon-Avon. This was during the period of four years or so at the end of the class's life when the remaining units were based at Tyseley (apart from a few which had gone into parcels service). They moved here in 1987 after a thirty-year stint based at Lincoln, their only home up to that point. Leonard Rogers.

Date: 24th November 1990

Set number: T024

Class 114 T024 (53044 + 54043) was in the soon to be lifted Cold Store Siding alongside platform 3 at Stratford-upon-Avon on 24 November 1990. It was unusual to see a DMU here on a Sunday at that date as there was no Sunday service to the station then, so I assume that it had failed and was waiting either for a fitter to arrive the next day or to be dragged back to Tyseley. Class 47 47827 was just arriving to take out the VSOE dining train with 47807 which had come into the station earlier. Peter Tandy.

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