Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30410
Diagram: 640
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 50628 during the unknown period are:
13/12/58 | New to | 5D (Cockshute) | - pending allocation |
4w/e 27/12/58 | Transferred to | 18A (Toton) | |
Jun-59 | Transferred to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
Oct-59 | Transferred to | 27F (Brunswick) | |
11/09/61 | Transferred to | 8H (Allerton) | - presumed move on closure of Brunswick |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 8J |
Then the allocations for 56214 are:
4w/e 05/04/69 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
4w/e 31/05/70 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | |
06/05/73 | Depot code change | CH | |
14/05/90 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) PLOX | |
25/11/90 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) PBRX | |
09/06/92 | Withdrawn from | BR (Bristol Bath Road) REBR |
56214 - original number
54214 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Nov-72 - AWS fitted
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
50628 | 56214 | As delivered to 5D - 13th December 1958 | |||||||
50628 | 56214 | Transfer to 27F - Oct-59 | |||||||
50628 | 56214 | Transfer to 9A - 4w/e 05/04/69 | |||||||
50628 | 56214 | Transfer to 6A - May-70 | |||||||
50925 | 56214 | Noted 18/04/73 - at Chester1 | |||||||
50927 | 56214 | Noted 08/04/1976 - at Warrington2 | |||||||
50927 | 56214 | Noted 31/07/76 - at Shrewsbury1 | |||||||
50927 | 56214 | Noted 15/07/77 - passing Harlech signal box | |||||||
50929 | 56214 | Noted 13/09/77 - at Shrewsbury1 | |||||||
50628 | 56214 | Noted 28/08/1979 - on 04:15 Shrewsbury to Machynlleth with 51174,56273, 50931 and 515622 | |||||||
50927 | 56214 | Noted circa 03/19813 | |||||||
50927 | 56214 | Noted circa 05/19823 | |||||||
50927 | 56214 | Noted 11th August 1982 | |||||||
53927 | 54214 | Noted circa 06/19833 | |||||||
53927 | 54214 | Noted 24/09/85 - on 12:50 Chester - Wolverhampton service4 | |||||||
53927 | 54214 | Noted 15/11/85 - on 14:00 Manchester Oxford Road - Chester service (one engine failed, 29 mins late at Chester)4 | |||||||
53927 | 54214 | Listed at Chester - Summer 1986 | |||||||
269 | 53927 | 54214 | Listed at CH - March 1988 | ||||||
53927 | 54214 | Noted 05/04/19883 | |||||||
CH269 | 53927 | 54214 | Listed at CH - May 1988 | ||||||
CH269 | 53927 | 54214 | Noted circa May-88 | ||||||
53927 | 54214 | Noted 16/08/88 - on 22:30 Sheffield-Retford | |||||||
CH269 | 53927 | 54214 | Noted circa 11/19883 | ||||||
CH269 | 53927 | 54214 | Listed at CH - 14/10/89 | ||||||
LO269 | 53927 | 54214 | Listed at LO - mid May-90 | ||||||
LO269 | 53927 | 54214 | Noted circa 07/19903 | ||||||
53927 | 54214 | Noted 24/10/90 - on 16:44 Doncaster - Skegness5 | |||||||
53927 | 54214 | Noted 25/10/90 - on 16:44 Doncaster - Skegness5 | |||||||
B978 | 53927 | 54214 | Listed at BR - Jul-91 | ||||||
B978 | 53927 | 54214 | Noted circa 08/19913 | ||||||
B978 | 53927 | 54214 | Listed at BR - Aug-91 | ||||||
B978 | 53927 | 54214 | Listed at BR - Dec-91 | ||||||
B978 | 53927 | 54214 | Noted 28/02/92 - at Bristol Temple Meads |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Martin Baumann
5: Graeme Phillips
Class 108 unit M54214 + M53927 seen at Wrexham General. In 1983 I went on a tour of all the mainline railways of Wales. On the way back from a few days in Tywyn, and a visit to the west coast of Wales, I took a break at Wrexham General, and took this shot of one of the regular Chester based Class 108 DMUs. Chris McKee.
Following a heavy rain shower, a two-car Class 108 DMU with Driving Trailer Second Lavatory (DTSL) car M54214 at the rear was stood at the north end of platform 5 at Preston on June 30th 1990. The DMBS is presumably 53927. The DMU had arrived from Barrow-In-Furness and after the passengers alighted, was working the short distance ECS to the sidings at Croft Street, adjacent to Preston Power Box. Martyn Hilbert.
A well-laiden Class 108 DMU 2-car set 978 (54214 and presumably 53927) at Long Dyke Junction with a down passenger working on 16 February 1991. Robert Thomas.
Class 108 set CH269 (53927 and presumably 54214) in Buxworth Cutting on the Hope Valley Line in 1989. Walter Burt.