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Vehicle 56044 / 54044

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

22/03/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
10/05/87	Stored U.	LN (Lincoln)
29/06/88	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)

Notes

1957 - Stored near Sleaford South Junction while power car used as extra power in other unit

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56044 - original number
54044 - from Mar-84 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 01/12/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

50044	56044	As delivered to 40A - 22nd March 1957
50044	56044	Noted 26th Nov 1960
50004	56044	Noted 06/04/65 - at Stapleford and Sandiacre on a Nottingham - Sheffield working¹
50044	56044	Noted 27/07/67¹
50044	56044	Noted May 1968
50044	56044	Noted 28/10/71 - in Sheffield Midland²
50046	56044	Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster¹
50046	56044	Noted 17/08/1973 - at Grantham³
50043	56044	Noted 15/06/74 - at Doncaster¹
50043	56044	Noted 04/09/74 - in Sheffield Midland²
50031	56044	Noted 23/02/76 - at Leeds¹
50014	56044	Noted 30/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds²
50025	56044	Noted 02/02/78 - at Bury St Edmunds²
50011	56044	Noted 22/09/79 - R.C.T.S. (West Midlands Branch) The Cottam Railtour 50005 + 56030 / 50011 + 56044 / 51288 + 56446
50016	56044	Noted circa 04/1982⁴
50024	56044	Noted circa 02/1983⁴
53008	54044	Noted 03/12/83
53013	54044	Noted circa 05/1986⁴
53013	54044	Noted 28/08/1986⁴
53013	54044	Noted 25/11/86

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

Images:

Class 114 DMU at Whitemoor Junction, March

2nd May 1978

E56044 + E50025 approaching Whitemoor Junction, March, with a Cambridge to Doncaster service on 2 May 1978. Phil Bevan.

9th September 1981

A Class 114 two-car DMU takes the avoiding lines around the back of Wakefield Kirkgate's island platform on what looks like a route learning trip on 9 September 1981. The leading vehicle is Derby-built driving trailer composite no. E56044. Wakefield East signalbox, which was closed the following year, is visible in the left background. Andrew Walker.

April 1984

A Class 114 and Class 101 at Cambridge in April 1984. The Class 114 DTS - which appears to be 54044 - carries the South Yorkshire PTE logo. Michael Mensing.

1986

A Class 114 DMU led by E54044 arrives into Lincoln Central station with a Cleethorpes service sometime in 1986. Andrew Walker.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 18th April 1970

A Derby Heavyweight DMU formed of E50044 + E56044 in Lincoln Central on 18 April 1970. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive. David Page Collection.

Date: 3rd December 1983

A Class 114 two-car set comprising of E53008 and E54044 leaves Scunthorpe for Doncaster on 3rd December 1983. Syd Young.

Date: 25th November 1986

On railtour duty are 2+2 Derby built class 114 dmu's comprising of cars E53047 + E54018 / E54044 + E53013, pause for a photo stop at Rotherham Masborough's platform 4. I have no real recollection of this tour, where it started or finished, who ran it, I've no paperwork for it, Six Bells Junction has drawn a blank, all I know it also visited Wakefield and went through Tinsley Yard, I've a few naff photo's to tell me that, so has anybody out there got any idea's? Rotherham Masborough closed on the 3rd October 1988, replaced by Rotherham Central, although the line is still in use. Andrew J Crowther.

Date: 25th November 1986

On railtour duty are 2+2 Derby built class 114 dmu's comprising of cars E53047 + E54018 / E54044 + E53013, pause for a photo stop at Rotherham Masborough's platform 4, 25th November 1986. I have no real recollection of this tour, where it started or finished, who ran it, i've no paperwork for it, Six Bells Junction has drawn a blank, all i know it also visited Wakefield and went through Tinsley Yard, i've a few naff photo's to tell me that, so has anybody out there got any idea's? Rotherham Masborough closed on the 3rd October 1988, replaced by Rotherham Central, although the line is still in use. Andrew J Crowther.

Date: 15th May 1987

Derby Lightweight and Heavyweight sets at Rotherham Central on 15/5/87. The Class 108 is formed of 53642 + 53622, the Class 114 54044 + 53033. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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