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 50952 during the unknown period are:
21/02/59 | 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 56235 are:
4w/e 05/04/69 | Transferred to | 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor) | |
06/05/73 | Depot code change | KM | |
Jan-75 | Depot code change | KD | |
15/05/88 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
29/09/91 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) PLOX | |
06/07/92 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX | |
28/07/92 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX |
56235 - original number
54235 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham
50952 | 56235 | As delivered to - 21/02/59 - stabled at Warwick, pending allocation | |||||||
50951 | 56235 | Noted 20/12/66 - at Manchester Victoria1 | |||||||
50959 | 56235 | Noted 16/08/70 - at Kingmoor1 | |||||||
50951 | 56235 | Noted 01/09/74 - on Kingmoor depot2 | |||||||
50964 | 56235 | Noted 24/08/75 - on Carlisle Kingmoor depot2 | |||||||
50951 | 56235 | Noted 04/09/1976 - Carlisle Kingmoor Open Day Shuttle with 50622 + 56202 | |||||||
50951 | 56235 | Noted 01/04/1977 - at Carlisle 3 | |||||||
50951 | 56235 | Listed at KD - circa Aug-80 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Listed at KD - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 30/07/85 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Listed at Carlisle Kingmoor - Summer 1986 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 01/11/19864 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 09/05/1987 - Barrow connection from BR Peterborough-Carlisle excursion | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Listed at KD - circa Jan-88 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 18/06/88 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 23/07/88 - on 14:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 06/08/88 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 22/10/88 - on 15:04 Gateshead Metro Centre - Sunderland service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 12/11/88 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Listed at HT - Feb-89 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 06/02/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 18/02/89 - on 16:30 Sunderland - Hexham service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 29/03/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 24/04/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 29/04/1989 - Connection from Barrow to BR Lancaster-Oban excursion | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 06/05/89 - on 13:35 Carlisle - Newcastle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 13/05/89 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 10/06/89 - on 16:27 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 10/06/89 - on 15:04 Gateshead Metro Centre - Sunderland service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 12/06/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 12/06/89 - on 18:00 Newcastle - Sunderland - service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 20/06/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 22/07/89 - on 14:25 Newcastle - Morpeth service5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 31/07/89 - on 10:15 Barrow-in-Furness - Carlisle5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 31/07/89 - on 14:46 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 07/08/89 - on 11:05 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 16/09/89 - on 11:05 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 07/10/89 - on 10:00 Whitehaven - Carlisle5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 11/10/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 06/11/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 25/11/89 - on 14:15 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
HT51 | 53951 | 54235 | Listed at HT - Jul-91 | ||||||
HT51 | 53951 | 54235 | Listed at HT - Aug-91 | ||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 17/08/91 - on 15:15 Newcastle - Carlisle service with 54227 + 539585 | |||||||
53951 | 54235 | Noted 23/11/91 - on 15:00 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
LO295 | 53951 | 54235 | Listed at LO - Dec-91 | ||||||
LO295 | 53951 | 54235 | Noted circa 02/19924 | ||||||
LO295 | 53951 | 54235 | Listed at LO - 02/07/92 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Graeme Phillips
DTS 54235 (presumably with + 53951) is at the end of a Class 108 formation in Carlisle on May 23, 1984. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The number of 54235 with the HT depot sticker below. Taken on the 20th July 1988, the vehicle had newly transferred from Kingmoor - Heaton. Hamish Stevenson.
Longsight Class 108 set LO295 (54235 and presumably 53951 in the bay at Lancaster with a service for Barrow on 24-1-92. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
A Derby Class 108 two-car DMU formed of cars M54235 & M53951 was stood at Morecambe Promenade with the Morecambe to Lancaster shuttle service on March 27th 1992. The once busy and extensive former Midland Railway sea-front terminus closed on February 7th 1994. Martyn Hilbert.
LO295 (presumably 53951 + 54235) at Lostock Hall on a Blackpool South to Colne working in 1992. John McIntyre.