Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30409
Diagram: 640
23/05/58 | New to | 53C (Hull Springhead) | |
2w/e 09/08/58 | Transferred to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
2w/e 30/04/60 | Transferred to | 55F (Manningham) | |
05/03/67 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | - Manningham closed |
May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
13/05/84 | Transferred to | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
28/09/86 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
10/05/87 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) | |
p/e 27/01/90 | Sector Change to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) PXXZ | |
13/02/90 | Withdrawn from | BR (Bristol Bath Road) PZQZ | |
p/e 21/07/90 | Reinstated | BR (Bristol Bath Road) PBRX | |
09/01/92 | Withdrawn from | BR (Bristol Bath Road) PBRX |
56191 - original number
54191 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell
50600 | 56191 | As delivered to 53C - 23rd May 1958 | |||||||
50600 | 56191 | Transfer to 56G - 2w/e 09/08/58 | |||||||
50606 | 56191 | Transfer to 55F - 2w/e 30/04/60 | |||||||
50600 | 56191 | Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 25/03/67 | |||||||
50616 | 56191 | Noted 15/08/19701 | |||||||
50616 | 56191 | Noted 15/08/19701 | |||||||
50616 | 56191 | Noted 24/10/70 - at Sheffield Midland2 | |||||||
L162 | 50621 | 56191 | Noted circa 19713 | ||||||
50621 | 56191 | Noted 03/09/1971 - at York4 | |||||||
50621 | 56191 | Noted 27/08/1974 - at York1 | |||||||
50616 | 56191 | Noted 11/1974 - at Leeds 1 | |||||||
50616 | 56191 | Noted 01/11/75 - at Brough2 | |||||||
50612 | 56191 | Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds2 | |||||||
50619 | 56191 | Noted 09/07/1976 - Scarborough-Chester (8-car)5 | |||||||
50616 | 56191 | Noted circa 01/19773 | |||||||
50616 | 56191 | Noted 12/02/77 - at York2 | |||||||
50622 | 56191 | Noted 16/06/1978 - at Doncaster 1 | |||||||
50613 | 56191 | Noted 02/08/79 | |||||||
50613 | 56191 | Noted 16/01/19823 | |||||||
50613 | 56191 | Noted circa 10/19823 | |||||||
50613 | 56191 | Noted circa 03/19833 | |||||||
53613 | 54191 | Noted 07/01/19843 | |||||||
53613 | 54191 | Noted 26/03/1984 - at Lancaster3 | |||||||
53613 | 54191 | Noted circa 10/19863 | |||||||
53613 | 54191 | Noted 21/03/87 - on 16:37 Selby - York6 | |||||||
B963 | 53613 | 54191 | Listed at BR - Jun-87 | ||||||
B963 | 53613 | 54191 | Listed at BR - Aug-87 | ||||||
B963 | 53613 | 54191 | Listed at BR - Oct-87 | ||||||
B963 | 53613 | 54191 | Listed at BR - 29/02/88 | ||||||
spare | 54191 | Listed at BR - 15/05/89 | |||||||
B966 | 53618 | 54191 | Listed at BR - Jul-91 | ||||||
B966 | 53618 | 54191 | Listed at BR - Aug-91 |
Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Jeremy Goodyear
5: Chris Moxon
6: Martin Baumann
A two-car refurbished Class 108 DMU (E56191 closest) leaves the east-west chord at Shipley to back into the station. This was the 12:57 Leeds-Skipton on Easter Monday 19 April 1976. Michael Mensing.
The 1.08pm Leeds - Ilkley service has just arrived into Guiseley station on June 22, 1976. The refurbished Class 108 DMU contains DTC 56191. Michael Mensing.
A BR Derby-built class 108 2-car set with E56191 leading passes the remote cabin at Crabley Creek shortly before a heavy downpour on 5th April 1983. The box is situated between Brough and Gilberdyke and the train is a York to Hull service. Syd Young.
Class 108 DMU set B966 (54191 + 53618) at Westbury with the 12:15 Southampton - Bristol Temple Meads one day in April 1991. Stuart Mackay Collection.
An unusual photo showing a very long formation formed neatly of Class 101 & 108 vehicles all carrying the short lived refurbishment livery. The occasion was a schools special from Scarborough to Chester returning through Helsby, 9/7/76. The 8-car formation was 50169/59306/59075/50161, 56191/50619 & 51230/56369. Anthony Griffiths.
E50613 and E56191 entering Lancaster Castle on the 2nd August 1979. Robert Frise.
DMBS E51541 is seen departing Leeds with the 15:35 Leeds - Skipton local service in 1983, this car was renumbered to E78790 shortly after when one of its two Rolls-Royce engines was removed. Also visible to the right is a Class 110 DMU, and on the left 54191 faces a Met-Camm. Graeme Phillips Collection.
A depot full of Class 108s. Bristol Bath Road on Sunday 14 April 1991 - closest to the right is set B962 with DMBS 53619, working left B961 (presumably 54208 + 53608) is in the distance, looking freshly painted with the black mask is B979 (presumably 54260 + 53931), side by side with B966 (possibly 54191 visible). The DMBS partially seen on the left is 53614, withdrawn in January that year and in a few months it would arrive at Snailwell for disposal. Stuart Mackay Collection.