Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30279
Diagram: 537
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 50356 during the unknown period are:
w/e 05/10/57 | New to | 9D (Buxton) | |
Nov-57 | Transferred to | 5D (Cockshute) | |
Jan-58 | Transferred to | 8E (Brunswick) | |
Apr-58 | Depot code change | 27F | |
Jun-58 | Transferred to | 3C (Ryecroft) | |
Jun-60 | Depot code change | 21F | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 2G | |
3w/e 31/01/65 | Transferred to | 2H (Monument Lane) | |
3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 2G (Ryecroft) | |
3w/e 30/06/66 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) |
Then the allocations for 56111 are:
3w/e 30/03/69 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
May 1973 | Depot code change | LO | |
17/07/83 | To departmental stock | - as TDB977196 | |
Feb-85 | Withdrawn |
56111 - original number
977196 - from Jul-83 (departmental stock)
Special Instruction coach MOD Moreton-on-Lugg From 7/83 to 2/85.
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
50356 | 56111 | As delivered to 9D - w/e 05/10/57 | |||||||
50356 | 56111 | Transfer to 5D - Nov-57 | |||||||
LT308 | 50538 | 56111 | Listed at Longsight - circa Dec-69 | ||||||
50538 | 56111 | Noted 22/12/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
LT299 | 50356 | 56111 | Listed at 9A - circa Jul-70 | ||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight1 | |||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot2 | |||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted 23/02/76 - at Stalybridge1 | |||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted 10/04/76 - in Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted Sep-76 - in Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted 04/01/78 | |||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted 18/02/1979 - at Crewe Station3 | |||||||
LO297 | 50356 | 56111 | Noted circa 05/19824 | ||||||
LO297 | 50356 | 56111 | Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Picc4 | ||||||
LO297 | 50356 | 56111 | Noted circa 09/19824 | ||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted circa 12/19824 | |||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted 15/07/1983 - Manchester Picc4 | |||||||
50356 | 56111 | Noted 11/08/1983 - on 16.06 Llandudno - Holyhead with 50358-561134 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Shayne Lewis
4: Eddie Knorn
Gloucester Class 100 Driving Trailer Composite M56111 stabled with various other items of rolling stock, including two more redundant Class 100 vehicles, at Longsight TMD on June 18th 1978. After BR use, M56111 became an instruction coach on the Ministry of Defence railway system at Moreton-On-Lugg. It was eventually scrapped in 1985. Alongside is the Longsight Overhead Line Maintenance Train, with two former LMS vintage coaches visible. Martyn Hilbert.
A Class 100 DMU with a Cravens alongside in Manchester Piccadilly, date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 100 Gloucester 2-car DMU 56111 + 50356 approaches Hoole Lane, Chester, with a service from Manchester on 13-11-82. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
Class 100 Gloucester RC&W 2-car DMU 56111+50356 in Platform 1a at Crewe 9-10-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
M50356 (and presumably M56111) arrives at Stalybridge with the 14:30 from Stockport (with a tail lamp at this end? maybe changing platforms?) on 31 August 1976. On the left the 12:13 Scarborough-Liverpool Lime Street departs with refurbished liveried E50169 on the rear. Robert Thomas.
A GRC&W set formed of M50356 + M56111 with a Stockport train at Stalybridge on December 8th, 1980. John Carter.
Class 100 Gloucester 2-car DMU 50356+56111 stabled Chester depot on 27-9-83. My notes say there were three 2-car units of he class on Chester that evening, most of the surviving sets. This one would be withdrawn towards the end of the year. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.