Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30409
Diagram: 640
06/08/58 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
2w/e 30/04/60 | Transferred to | 55F (Manningham) | |
2w/e 09/10/65 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
2w/e 12/03/66 | Transferred to | 67A (Corkerhill) | |
3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 64H (Leith Central) | |
14/01/68 | On loan to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
28/01/68 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
Nov-68 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
3w/e 31/10/70 | Transferred to | 52J (South Gosforth) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
w/e 21/08/77 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
13/05/84 | Transferred to | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
31/05/87 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) | |
14/05/90 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) PCFX | |
27/11/90 | Withdrawn from | CF (Cardiff Canton) PXXZ |
56201 - original number
54201 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
15/03/75 - AWS fitted
Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn
50610 | 56201 | As delivered to 56G - 6th August 1958 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Transfer to 55F - 2w/e 30/04/60 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Transfer to 50C - 2w/e 09/10/65 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Transfer to 67A - 2w/e 12/03/66 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Transfer to 64H - 3w/e 30/04/66 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Transfer to 31A - 28/01/68 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Transfer to 32A - Nov-68 | |||||||
51204 | 56201 | Noted 30/05/70 - at Peterborough1 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Transfer to 52J - 3w/e 31/10/70 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle1 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Noted 01/06/1974 - at Carlisle 2 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Noted 07/01/75 - on South Gosforth depot3 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot3 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Noted 03/04/76 - in Newcastle Central3 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Noted circa 03/19784 | |||||||
50610 | 56201 | Noted 14/06/1978 - at Sheffield 2 | |||||||
53610 | 54201 | Noted circa 10/19834 | |||||||
53618 | 54201 | Noted circa 01/19864 | |||||||
53618 | 54201 | Noted 06/01/86 - at Norwich3 | |||||||
53618 | 54201 | Noted 03/05/19864 | |||||||
53618 | 54201 | Noted 25/10/19864 | |||||||
B962 | 54201 | Listed at BR - Aug-87 | |||||||
B969 | 53621 | 54201 | Formed at BR circa 10/87 | ||||||
B963 | 53613 | 54201 | Noted 28/11/19874 | ||||||
B969 | 53621 | 54201 | Listed at BR - 29/02/88 | ||||||
53621 | 54201 | Noted 20/01/89 - on late afternoon Bristol - Severn Beach service | |||||||
B969 | 53621 | 54201 | Listed at BR - 15/05/89 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
A Derby Lightweight (Blue Square) DMU at St Ives (Huntingdonshire) after arriving from Cambridge into the platform which used to be for the line to Huntingdon and Kettering circa 1968. Behind the building are the platforms formerly used for the March line. The station was largely intact at this time, but was rationalised a few months later. Cambridge depot only ever had one DMU allocated of this type, 56201 + 50610 arriving from the Scottish Region in January 1968 which explains the yellow first class stripe on the DTCL. They moved to Norwich depot in November 1968. Tom Burnham.
Class 108 54201 is seen at Tyseley carriage sidings complete with MetroTrain branding on 28.06.1987. Andy Cole.
BR (Derby) Class 108 2-car Local Passenger dmu Set No.B969 (with 54201 closest) in Rail Blue & Grey livery with all yellow front ends arriving at Bristol (Temple Meads) on a Cardiff - Taunton service, 05/89. Hugh Llewelyn.
B969 is seen at Cheltenham in July 89, with 54201 closest (presumably with 53621). Note that neither vehicle has a BR logo. Mike Cooper.
Class 108 DMU set B969 (presumably 54201 + 53621) after arrival in Bristol Temple Meads with a service from Severn Beach. The slide process date was January 1990. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Derby twin set (later Class 108) in Corstorphine station in 1966. Scotland had just two driver trailer sets at this time, 50610 + 56201 and 50611 + 56202. Walter Burt.
Class 108 set B969 (E53621 + E54201) at Clifton Down with the 09:27 Bristol TM - Severn Beach service on July 1, 1988. Hamish Stevenson.