Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30337
Diagram: 628
The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 50135 during the unknown period are:
Apr-57 | New to | 9A (Longsight) | |
4w/e 01/07/61 | Transferred to | 9D (Buxton) | |
4w/e 30/03/63 | Transferred to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 9D |
Then the allocations for 56091 are:
w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
2w/e 08/08/76 | Transferred to | DN (Darlington) | |
13/05/84 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | - Darlington closed |
04/10/87 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
Mar-88 | Reinstated | TS (Tyseley) | - from store |
Mar-88 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
Apr-88 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
02/10/88 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
14/05/89 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) PNLX | |
21/09/89 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ | |
p/e 15/09/90 | Reinstated | NL (Neville Hill) PNLX | |
07/07/91 | Transferred to | CA (Cambridge) PCAX | |
08/04/92 | Transferred to | NC (Norwich) RDNC | |
17/05/93 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) RCLO |
56091 - original number
54091 - from Feb-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Nov-74 - AWS fitted
Scrapped by JT Landscapes, Caerwent
50135 | 56091 | As delivered to 9A - Apr-57 | |||||||
50135 | 56091 | Noted 20th April 1957 | |||||||
50135 | 56091 | Transfer to 55H - w/e 30/04/66 - ex-LMR | |||||||
50137 | 56091 | Noted 05/08/66 - at Leeds City1 | |||||||
50135 | 56091 | Noted 05/09/66 - at Leeds City1 | |||||||
50134 | 56091 | Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1 | |||||||
50134 | 56091 | Noted 08/09/73 - at Huddersfield2 | |||||||
L141 | 50134 | 56091 | Noted 24/08/74 - at Sheffield Midland, set number carried on solebar2 | ||||||
50134 | 56091 | Noted 29/08/74 - at York2 | |||||||
50134 | 56091 | Noted 01/04/1976 - at Lancaster 3 | |||||||
50286 | 56091 | Noted 17/07/76 - at Leeds1 | |||||||
50259 | 56091 | Noted 26/04/80 - at York2 | |||||||
50248 | 56091 | Noted 02/08/81 - on 17:00 Whitby - Middlesbrough service | |||||||
50157 | 56091 | Noted 16/01/19824 | |||||||
50200 | 56091 | Noted 20/03/1982 - Worked 14.35 Saltburn to Darlington.4 | |||||||
50293 | 56091 | Noted 09/05/82 - on a Saltburn - Darlington service | |||||||
50212 | 56091 | Noted circa 10/19824 | |||||||
53200 | 54091 | Noted 12/06/83 - at Thornaby | |||||||
51226 | 54091 | Noted circa 03/19854 | |||||||
53256 | 54091 | Noted 25/03/86 - at Darlington | |||||||
53256 | 54091 | Noted 10/10/1986 - at Darlington4 | |||||||
53165 | 54091 | Noted 22/11/19864 | |||||||
53250 | 54091 | Noted 25th February 1987 | |||||||
53165 | 54091 | Noted circa 07/19874 | |||||||
53824 | 54091 | Listed at CH - circa Apr-88 | |||||||
T213 | 51927 | 54091 | Formed at TS circa May-88 | ||||||
T213 | 51927 | 54091 | Noted circa 05/19884 | ||||||
51927 | 54091 | Noted 28/05/88 - on 09:06 Hereford - Birmingham New Street via Worcester, 23 late, booked for Class 1505 | |||||||
51927 | 54091 | Noted 13th November 1988 | |||||||
NL251 | 53940 | 54091 | Listed at NL - 05/09/89 | ||||||
53969 | 54091 | Noted 23/07/906 | |||||||
53969 | 54091 | Noted circa 09/19904 | |||||||
53969 | 54091 | Noted 22/10/90 - on 15:25 Doncaster - Skegness6 | |||||||
53969 | 54091 | Noted 24/10/90 - on 13:32 Sheffield - Retford6 | |||||||
60 | 51463 | 54091 | Listed at CA - Jul-91 | ||||||
60 | 51463 | 54091 | Listed at CA - Aug-91 | ||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Listed at CA - Dec-91 | ||||||
51175 | 54091 | Noted 05/02/92 - On 13:17 Nottingham - Skegness and 16:15 Skegness - Grantham7 | |||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Noted 24/05/92 - at Norwich2 | ||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Listed at NC - 02/07/92 | ||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Noted circa 08/19924 | ||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Listed at NC - 24/09/92 | ||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Listed at NC - November 1992 | ||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Listed at NC - 10/12/92 | ||||||
51175 | 54091 | Noted 24/05/93 - On 19:52 Warrington - Manchester Piccadilly7 | |||||||
51175 | 54091 | Noted 21/06/936 | |||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Listed at LO - November 1993 | ||||||
51175 | 54091 | Noted 08/02/94 - On 15:18 Manchester Piccadilly - Rose Hill7 | |||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Noted circa 10/19944 | ||||||
51175 | 54091 | Noted 22/10/94 - On 2K20 15:18 Manchester Oxford Road - Crewe7 | |||||||
51175 | 54091 | Noted 10/09/97 - On 2H56 16:27 Manchester Piccadilly - Rose Hill via Hyde and 2H59 17:05 Rose Hill - Manchester Piccadilly7 | |||||||
101658 | 51175 | 54091 | Noted 10th May 2000 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Martin Baumann
6: Graeme Phillips
7: David Bellamy
The view from E56091 passing Middlesbrough station on the goods lines during an engineering diversion, Nay 9th, 1982. John Carter.
E56091 + E50293 in Darlington station with the 14:33 to Saltburn on May 9th, 1982. In the other platform is 08268, I can still recall the awful stench when that JCB disturbed decades of crap. John Carter.
Still in Regional Railways livery but operating for First North Western, a pair of Met-Cam Class 101's, 101658 (54091 + 51175) & 101661 (51463 & 54365) were departing ECS from Blackpool North on October 27th 1997. This had been a Saturday only working for 101's during the Spring/Summer/Autumn of 1997, the units working to the Fylde Coast as the 09.45 Manchester Piccadilly to Blackpool North service and returning back to Manchester ECS. Martyn Hilbert.
Met-Camm driver trailer 54091 is seen at Tyseley on 24.04.1988 having been transfered in from the North Eastern region. Andy Cole.
Class 111, vehicles 54091 (front) and 54061 (rear) at Tyseley on 30th April 1988. Photo by my Dad, David Slack. Uploaded by Andrew Slack. David Slack.
Two-car Metro Cammell / Derby DMU with Tyseley depot unit designation T213 (Class 111 DTSL 54091 and a Class 108 DMBS presumably 51927) departs from the bay platform at Leamington Spa station in the summer of 1988. Bob Belcher.
A Class 108/111 power trailer set at Skipton in August 1989, the 111 trailer being 54091. Mike Cooper.
A Class 108/111 power trailer set at Skipton in August 1989, the 111 trailer being 54091. Mike Cooper.
Class 111 DTC 54091 in Leeds station on 30 March 1991. Dave Warby.
Freshly painted 101658 (54091 + 51175) in BRML Doncaster on 15-12-91. Stuart Mackay Collection.
101658 (54091 + 51175) in Manchester Piccadilly on October 13, 1994. Ian Buck.
101658 (54091 + 51175) Manchester Piccadilly 09/05/95. Roddy MacPhee.
Regional Railways set 101 658 (54091 + 51175) at New Mills South Junction with local service to Sheffield on the 12th October 1995. Andrew J Crowther.
Two Met-Camm DMUs still soldiering on, Regional Railways 54091 (technically a 111 vehicle) and Green 53160 at Longsight 4-1-02. Spannerman37025.
Withdrawn Class 101 DMUs at Longsight on 27-10-03, right to left are 54091, 53171, and (possibly) 51253. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative DZ161) showing new M50135 + M56091 near Aldridge, circa April 1957. Metropolitan Cammell.
An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative DZ162) showing new M50135 + M56091 east of Aldridge station, circa April 1957. Metropolitan Cammell.
E50248 + E56091 with a three-car set on the 17:00 Whitby - Middlesbrough at Bog Hall Junction, Whitby, on August 2, 1981. John Carter.
E50293 + E56091 with a Saltburn - Darlington service diverted via Goods Lines, at Middlesbrough on May 9th, 1982. John Carter.
E50751 taken from E56091 passing on goods lines, Whitehouse, Middlesbrough, on May 9th, 1982. John Carter.
53200 and 54091 at Thornaby on 12/6/83. Jerry Glover.
The splendour of Darlington (Bank Top) station at night. Metropolitan-Cammell units 53157 (left) and 53256-54091 stand in the southern bay platforms during the evening of 25th March 1986 with an HST Inter-City 125 making its stop on a King's Cross-Newcastle service. Gordon Edgar.
A Neville Hill allocated Class 108/111 hybrid is seen stabled at Huddersfield as a Class 156 departs on 29 June 1990. Closest is DMBS 53969 carrying set number T215 from a previous allocation to Tyseley. Its partner is 54091 had been reinstated a few weeks before after having been withdrawn in September 1989. It would spend another decade in traffic, becoming part of 101658 the following year. Keith Miller.
101658 (51175 + 54091) seen in Manchester Piccadilly station on 21/6/93. This image was published in Metro Enterprises 'DMU & Light Rail Datafile - 1995 Edition', page 25. Graeme Phillips.
DMBS 51175 heads the 11:18 Stockport - Heysham at Lancaster on 31/7/93, formed of 101658 (with 54091) and 101659. Gazza Prescott.
101 658 (51175 + 54091) and 101 659 are about to work the 19:15 to Manchester Victoria from Blackpool North on 31/7/93, headed by 51175. Gazza Prescott.
101659 (51213 + 54352) and 101658 (54091 + 51175) at Lancaster working the 11:18 Stockport - Heysham, 31/7/93. Gazza Prescott.
101 658 (51175 + 54091) working the 07:19 to Helsby from Chester, where it was pictured on 11/9/93. Gazza Prescott.
101658 (51175 + 54091) on the 08:27 Chester - Southport, seen at Appley Bridge on 18/12/93. Gazza Prescott.
101658 - 51175 + 54091 - Stockport 8/10/94. Sparegang.
DMU vehicles 51175 + 54091 (101658), 54346 + 53198 (101652) and 54343 with EMU 75506 at Stockport depot. Keith Miller.
101658 (51175 + 54091) in Manchester Piccadilly, December 1999. David Page.
At Ardwick 101658 (51175 & 54091) on 8th May 2000. Ian Buck.