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 50949 during the unknown period are:
28/02/59 | New | - stored at Warwick pending allocation | |
Apr-59 | Transferred to | 6K (Rhyl) | - stored pending allocation |
Jun-59 | Transferred to | 9E (Trafford Park) | |
4w/e 01/06/63 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
3w/e 31/10/65 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
4w/e 04/02/67 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) |
Then the allocations for 56232 are:
12/05/85 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
May-87 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
29/11/87 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
14/05/90 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) PLOX | |
02/07/92 | Withdrawn from | LO (Longsight) RCLO |
56232 - original number
54232 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
circa Dec-72 - AWS fitted
Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham
50949 | 56232 | As delivered to - 28th February 1959 - stabled at Warwick, pending allocation | |||||||
50967 | 56232 | Noted 01/01/68 - in Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
50938 | 56232 | Noted 22/08/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight1 | |||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 19/09/71 - on Chester depot1 | |||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 20/04/73 - in Manchester Oxford Road2 | |||||||
LT314 | 50949 | 56232 | Noted 09/09/73 - on Chester depot2 | ||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot2 | |||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 27/11/1976 - at Chester3 | |||||||
LO304 | 50949 | 56232 | Noted circa 08/19824 | ||||||
50978 | 56232 | Noted circa 12/1982 - Temporary formation operating from Longsight.4 | |||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted circa 01/19834 | |||||||
53949 | 54232 | Listed at LO - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53949 | 54232 | Listed at Newton Heath - Summer 1986 | |||||||
53949 | 54232 | Listed at NH - 10/05/87 | |||||||
CH255 | 51424 | 54232 | Noted Apr-88 | ||||||
255 | 51424 | 54232 | Noted 09/04/19884 | ||||||
CH255 | 51424 | 54232 | Listed at CH - May 1988 | ||||||
CH255 | 51424 | 54232 | Noted circa Jul-88 | ||||||
51424 | 54232 | Noted 01/10/88 - on 14:53 Sheffield - Chesterfield | |||||||
CH255 | 51424 | 54232 | Listed at CH - 14/10/89 | ||||||
LO255 | 51424 | 54232 | Listed at LO - mid May-90 | ||||||
LO255 | 51424 | 54232 | Noted circa 07/19904 | ||||||
LO255 | 51424 | 54232 | Listed at LO - Jul-91 | ||||||
LO255 | 51424 | 54232 | Listed at LO - Aug-91 | ||||||
51424 | 54232 | Noted 07/08/915 | |||||||
LO255 | 51424 | 54232 | Listed at LO - Dec-91 | ||||||
51424 | 54232 | Noted 11/04/92 - on 15:43 Chester - Manchester Piccadilly6 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Graeme Phillips
6: David Bellamy
With the WCML in the background and the route to Southport in the foreground, Class 108 DMU sets were Sunday resting in the Up sidings adjacent to Wigan Wallgate Junction on November 2nd 1986. Complete with a Greater Manchester PTE emblem behind the cab door the nearest car was DMSL 54232. An image taken in more-relaxed BR days when a polite request to local P.Way staff gave access to such locations. Martyn Hilbert.
Class 108 DMU set LO255 (54232 + 51424) passes through Buxworth Cutting sometime in 1992. Stuart Mackay Collection.
On Bank Holiday Monday August 29th 1988, a six-car rake of Class 108 DMUs had arrived at Southport with an additional service from Manchester. The leading car was Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M51424 part of Chester set CH255. The car had been built to Lot.No.30498 at Derby and had been new in March 1960. In 1988, M51424 was partnered with Driving Trailer M54232, the set being transferred to Manchester Longsight Depot in 1990, where it worked it's last period of operation until withdrawn from service in 1992. Both cars were subsequently scrapped by Booth's of Rotherham. Martyn Hilbert.
LO256 M54496 + M51901 + LO255 M51424 + M54232 2E24 18:30 Piccadilly to Sheffield at New Mills South Junction 21-5-91. Kevin Dowd.
Class 108 DMBS M51424, LO255 - with out of shot M54232 and M53982 / M54246 (LO277) at Manchester Victoria on 26/07/1991. Robert Chilton.