Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30466
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 50938 during the unknown period are:
10/01/59 | New to | 6G (Llandudno Junction) | |
Oct-59 | Transferred to | 1E (Bletchley) | |
w/e 03/04/65 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | |
w/e 07/01/67 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) |
Then the allocations for 56221 are:
w/e 06/06/70 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | |
06/05/73 | Depot code change | CH | |
w/e 18/02/78 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) | |
12/05/85 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
15/05/88 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
14/05/89 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) PNLX | |
29/09/91 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) PLOX | |
09/06/92 | Withdrawn from | LO (Longsight) RCLO |
56221 - original number
54221 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
50938 | 56221 | As delivered to 6G - 10th January 1959 | |||||||
50938 | 56221 | Transfer to 1E - Oct-59 | |||||||
50938 | 56221 | Noted 6th August 1961 | |||||||
51907 | 56221 | Noted 22/08/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
50541 | 56221 | Noted 22/12/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
50938 | 56221 | Transfer to 6A - w/e 06/06/70 | |||||||
51192 | 56221 | Noted 19/09/71 - on Chester depot1 | |||||||
50987 | 56221 | Noted 18/04/73 - at Chester2 | |||||||
50987 | 56221 | Noted 09/09/73 - on Chester depot2 | |||||||
50628 | 56221 | Noted 17/08/1974 - at Chester3 | |||||||
50628 | 56221 | Noted 31/07/76 - at Machynlleth2 | |||||||
50628 | 56221 | Noted 07/09/77 - at Machynlleth2 | |||||||
50986 | 56221 | Transfer to LO - w/e 18/02/78 | |||||||
LO312 | 50986 | 56221 | Noted circa 05/19824 | ||||||
LO312 | 50986 | 56221 | Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Picc4 | ||||||
53986 | 54221 | Noted circa 10/19844 | |||||||
53986 | 54221 | Listed at LO - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53986 | 54221 | Noted 17/05/86 - on 09:41 Stockport - Stalybridge5 | |||||||
53986 | 54221 | Listed at Newton Heath - Summer 1986 | |||||||
53986 | 54221 | Noted circa 02/19874 | |||||||
53986 | 54221 | Listed at NH - 10/05/87 | |||||||
N613 | 53986 | 54221 | Listed at NH - March 1988 | ||||||
53986 | 54221 | Noted 05/04/19884 | |||||||
CH280 | 53986 | 54221 | Listed at CH - May 1988 | ||||||
N613 | 53986 | 54221 | Noted circa Jul-88 | ||||||
53986 | 54221 | Noted 14/01/89 - on 12.28 Chester-Manchester Oxford Road with 53940 + 54273 | |||||||
NL255 | 53606 | 54221 | Listed at NL - 05/09/89 | ||||||
51420 | 54221 | Noted circa 12/19894 | |||||||
53204 | 54221 | Noted 28/12/89 - at Leeds City2 | |||||||
53940 | 54221 | Noted 22/10/906 | |||||||
53986 | 54221 | Noted 20/02/91 - on 22:53 Sheffield - Doncaster7 | |||||||
NL263 | 53986 | 54221 | Listed at NL - Jul-91 | ||||||
NL263 | 53986 | 54221 | Listed at NL - Aug-91 | ||||||
LO289 | 53986 | 54221 | Listed at LO - Dec-91 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Martin Baumann
6: Graeme Phillips
7: David Bellamy
Class 108 DTSL 54221 with 150 235 at Manchester Victoria, 8/8/87. Sparegang.
Class 108 DMU set N613 (presumably 54221 + 53986) at Rose Hill station in August 1988. Walter Burt.
Class 108 twin sets with CH273 leading formed M54273 + M53940 + M54221 + M53986 at Lostock Gralam on the 14th January 1989 with the 12.28 Chester-Manchester Oxford Road. Kevin Law.
Class 108 d.m.u. CH280 (53986 + 54221) 09-07-1989 awaiting its next duty at Bridlington. The set had been transferred from Chester to Neville Hill a few weeks earlier. Gordon Thomson.