railcar.co.uk
upload
close

Sign In

Not registered?
Forgot Your Password?

<- 56233 | 56234 | 56235 ->

Vehicle 56234 / 54234

Class 108

BR Diagram 640

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30466
Diagram: 640

Allocations

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 50951 during the unknown period are:

21/02/59 New - stored at Warwick pending allocation
19/04/59 Stored 6K (Rhyl) - pending allocation
Jun-59 Transfer 9G (Gorton)
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 56234 are:

4w/e 05/04/69 Transferred to 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor)
06/05/73Depot code changeKM
Jan-75Depot code changeKD
26/11/83 Withdrawn from KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56234 - original number
54234 - from Mar-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by BR, Derby C&W Works

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50951 56234 As delivered to - 21st February 1959 - stabled at Warwick, pending allocation
50957 56234 Noted 25/08/1973 - at Carlisle1
50962 56234 Noted 01/09/74 - on Barrow depot2
50955 56234 Noted 01/04/1976 - at Carlisle3
50955 56234 Noted 30/07/78 - on a Lancaster - Millom service with 50968 + 56251
50955 56234 Listed at KD - circa Aug-80

Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork

Images:

Class 108 DMU at Carnforth

17th June 1980

On the 17th June 1980 56234 and 50955 are seen being dragged through Carnforth station by 25 209. Jerry Glover.

Class 108 DMU at Derby Litchurch Lane

26th September 1982

Derby Litchurch Lane on the 26th September 1982. On the right in blue-grey is Class 108 DTC M56234. In the centre is a 101 TBS and a 127 DMBS, both in plain blue. Part of a 100 DTC can be seen on the far left, with it's solebar painted white! Ian Francis.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 30th July 1978

E50140 (+ E59087 + E59094 + E51514) sits beside M56251 (unseen are M50968 + M50955 + M56234) at Lancaster. The 101 is on the Lancaster - Morecambe shuttle, the 108 to Millom (Cumbrian coast), 30/7/78. Robert Frise.

                                                                                                                                                                             


➤