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Vehicle 56076 / 54076


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30262
Diagram: 630

Allocations

20/06/57 New to 54A (Sunderland)
20/06/57 On loan to 9A (Longsight)
4w/e 07/09/57 Ex-loan back to 54A (Sunderland)
3w/e 30/08/58 Transferred to South Gosforth
4w/e 26/11/60 Transferred to 56G (Hammerton Street)
3w/e 30/09/61 Transferred to South Gosforth
2w/e 12/01/63 Transferred to 51A (Darlington)
May-73Depot code changeDN
w/e 05/03/78 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
15/02/87 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56076 - original number
54076 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 24/03/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50224 56076 As delivered to 54A - 20th June 1957
50224 56076 Transfer to 54A - 4w/e 07/09/1957 - ex-loan LMR
50222 56076 Transfer to 56G - 4w/e 26/11/60
50222 56076 Transfer to South Gosforth - 3w/e 30/09/61
50224 56076 Noted 11/09/65 - at Thornaby1
51213 56076 Noted 04/09/71 - at Darlington1
50218 56076 Noted 10/09/72 - at Darlington1
50221 56076 Noted 07/01/75 - at Darlington2
50250 56076 Noted 06/09/75 - at Darlington1
50295 56076 Noted 30/12/75 - at Darlington1
50255 56076 Noted 07/06/77 - on 14.33 Saltburn – Darlington3
50136 56076 Noted circa 19784
50136 56076 Noted 19/06/82 - on Sheffield - Leeds service
53136 54076 Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds4
53136 54076 Noted 03/08/83 - at Church Fenton
53136 54076 Listed at NL - 01/01/85
53136 54076 Noted 29/05/85 - on Ormskirk to Preston service
53136 54076 Noted circa 02/19864
53136 54076 Noted 26/10/19864
53246 54076 Noted 01/12/19864

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Phil Shatford
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Church Fenton

3rd August 1983

A Met-Camm set (E54076 + E53136) at Church Fenton on August 3, 1983. John Carter.

Class 101 DMU at Ulnes Walton

29th May 1985

Having worked over the Pennines from Leeds to Preston, an Eastern Region 2-Car Class 101 with West Yorkshire Metrotrain branding was used on a fill-in turn from Preston to Ormskirk at tea-time on May 29th 1985. This was a Monday-Friday routine, that saw three different DMU sets working to Ormskirk in the early evening, the services crossing in the loop at Rufford. Having worked to Ormskirk E54076/E 53136 pass over Pages Crossing returning to Preston on the approach to Midge Hall. Martyn Hilbert.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 19th June 1982

E50136 + E56076 on a Sheffield - Leeds service arrives into Barnsley on 1982-06-19. Jumble Lane signalbox in the background. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 29th May 1985

Complete with its West Yorkshire PTE Metrotrain branding, a 2-Car Class 111/101 Met-Camm formed of E53136 & E54076 was working a tea-time out and back Preston to Ormskirk service on May 29th 1985, accelerating away from the single line token exchange at Midge Hall. The unit had worked a Preston to Leeds service and was utilised on the Ormskirk line as a fill-in turn before working back across the Pennines. This was the period when three different DMU sets appeared on Ormskirk services in the early evening in the days when the passing loop at Rufford was utilised to give an intensive service. Martyn Hilbert.