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 50965 during the unknown period are:
23/05/59 | New to | 9E (Trafford Park) | |
Jun-59 | Transferred to | 24F (Fleetwood) | |
4w/e 30/01/60 | Transferred to | 14A (Cricklewood) | |
Apr-60 | Transferred to | 24F (Fleetwood) | |
w/e 03/06/61 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | |
w/e 07/01/67 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
2w/e 11/05/68 | Transferred to | 10E (Accrington) |
Then the allocations for 56248 are:
w/e 07/02/70 | Transferred to | 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor) | |
Nov-70 | Transferred to | 10E (Accrington) | |
Oct-72 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NH | |
p/e 31/08/80 | Transferred to | KD (Carlisle Kingmoor) | |
24/05/83 | On loan to | HA (Haymarket) | |
08/07/83 | Ex-loan back to | KD (Carlisle Kingmoor) | |
15/05/88 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
14/05/89 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) PTSX | |
01/10/89 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) PNLX | |
29/07/91 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) PNLX |
56248 - original number
54248 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham
50965 | 56248 | As delivered to 9E - 23rd May 1959 | |||||||
50965 | 56248 | Noted 20/12/66 - at Manchester1 | |||||||
50965 | 56248 | Transfer to 12A - w/e 07/02/70 | |||||||
50961 | 56248 | Noted 01/04/70 - at Newcastle1 | |||||||
50951 | 56248 | Noted 16/08/70 - at Kingmoor1 | |||||||
50976 | 56248 | Noted 26/10/71 - at Preston2 | |||||||
50965 | 56248 | Noted 04/19733 | |||||||
50965 | 56248 | Noted 23/10/1976 - on BLS Northwestern Railtour No.2 with 50950 + 56233 | |||||||
50965 | 56248 | Noted 31/07/78 - at Windermere between 50956 + 56238 and 50968 + 56251 | |||||||
50965 | 56248 | Listed at KD - circa Aug-80 | |||||||
50965 | 56248 | Noted 09/01/82 - at Newcastle | |||||||
53965 | 54248 | Noted 26/03/1984 - at Preston4 | |||||||
53965 | 54248 | Listed at KD - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53965 | 54248 | Noted 30/07/85 | |||||||
53965 | 54248 | Listed at Carlisle Kingmoor - Summer 1986 | |||||||
53965 | 54248 | Noted circa 03/19874 | |||||||
53965 | 54248 | Noted 28/03/1987 - Barrow connection for BR (Loco Hauled) Carlisle-Bournemouth excursion | |||||||
53965 | 54248 | Listed at KD - circa Jan-88 | |||||||
CH275 | 53965 | 54248 | Listed at CH - May 1988 | ||||||
CH275 | 53965 | 54248 | Noted circa Jul-88 | ||||||
53965 | 54248 | Noted 14/07/88 - on 08:21 Sheffield - Manchester Piccadilly | |||||||
CH275 | 53965 | 54248 | Noted 15th October 1988 | ||||||
CH275 | 53965 | 54248 | Noted circa 11/19884 | ||||||
T212 | 53965 | 54248 | Listed at TS - 01/09/89 | ||||||
212 | 53965 | 54248 | Noted circa 12/19894 | ||||||
212 | 53965 | 54248 | Noted 28/12/89 - at Leeds City2 | ||||||
53974 | 54248 | Noted 07/08/90 - at Melton Ross | |||||||
NL237 | 51420 | 54248 | Listed at NL - Jul-91 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
A six-car Class 108 DMU formation departs from Carlisle for Barrow on September 1, 1982. Graeme Phillips Collection.
Class 108 set 212 (54248 + 53965) at Tamworth with Coventry on the destination blind. The negative sleeve recorded this as 7 August 1988, but the set number and location suggests it may be post May-1989 when it was a Tyseley set? Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Class 108 DMU formed of 54248 + 53974 pass at Melton Ross on August 7th, 1990. Rex Holt.
The 16:05 Lancaster - Barrow-in-Furness service arrives into Kents Bank station on 21 June 1968. Formed of a two-car Class 108, the closest vehicle appears to be M56248 at the time allocated to Accrington. Michael Mensing.
The 16:05 Lancaster - Barrow-in-Furness service departs from Kents Bank station on 21 June 1968. Formed of a two-car Class 108, the furthest vehicle is thought to be M56248. Michael Mensing.
M50956 at the head of M56238, M50965, M56248, M50968 and M56251 at Windermere on the 31st July 1978. Robert Frise.
M50965 + M56248 at Newcastle on January 9, 1982. John Carter.
Haymarket set 359 - formed SC55011 + 56248 + 50965 (a class 108 from on-loan from Carlisle) - rolling into Larbert station in June 1983. Andrew McConnell.
A Gloucester RC&W Class 122 “Bubble Car” leads a Derby Class 108 twin (M56248 + M50965 on loan from Carlisle) into Inverkeithing with the 14:38 Kirkcaldy to Edinburgh Waverley service on Saturday 11th June 1983. Brian McDevitt.
Class 108 DMU 53965 and 54248 departing from Carlisle station on 10 July 1987. Keith Miller.
A Carlisle to Barrow service formed of three Class 108 twins - 54247 + 53964 / 54241 + 53960 / 53965 + 54248 - departs from Ravenglass on 3 May 1988. Stuart Mackay Collection.