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 50967 during the unknown period are:
13/06/59 | New 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 56250 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 | |
Jan-81 | Transferred to | KD (Carlisle Kingmoor) | |
07/02/88 | Withdrawn from | KD (Carlisle Kingmoor) |
August 1988 - Seen grounded in Carnforth Yard
56250 - original number
54250 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
05/02/88 - Carnforth Up Furness line at Bottom End Yard
Collision involving Class 108 / Wagon
Info from Andrew Pilkington
The Class 108 DMU hit an engineers wagon. More Details.
Scrapped by Vic Berry, on location at Carnforth
50967 | 56250 | As delivered to 24F - 13th June 1959 | |||||||
50965 | 56250 | Noted 25/11/67 - at Guide Bridge1 | |||||||
50967 | 56250 | Transfer to 12A - w/e 07/02/70 | |||||||
50969 | 56250 | Noted 03/09/73 - at Preston2 | |||||||
50967 | 56250 | Noted 05/09/73 - at Preston2 | |||||||
50967 | 56250 | Noted 17/08/77 - at Windermere with M50776 + M50809 | |||||||
50967 | 56250 | Noted circa 08/19813 | |||||||
50967 | 56250 | Noted 01/06/82 - on 15:38 Carlisle to Barrow | |||||||
53967 | 54250 | Noted 29/03/1984 - on Kirkham - Blackpool Soute service3 | |||||||
53967 | 54250 | Listed at KD - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53967 | 54250 | Listed at Carlisle Kingmoor - Summer 1986 | |||||||
53967 | 54250 | Noted circa 11/19863 | |||||||
53967 | 54250 | Noted 18/04/1987 - Barrow connection for BR Mystery Excursion (Carlisle-Great Yarmouth) | |||||||
53967 | 54250 | Noted 06/06/1987 - Barrow connection from BR Inverness-Preston excursion | |||||||
53967 | 54250 | Listed at KD - circa Jan-88 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
With the former East Lancashire entrance building in Butler Street on the skyline, a pair of two-car Carlisle Kingmoor allocated Class 108's were stood at the North end of platform 5 at Preston on October 14th 1978. The nearest set was formed of Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) M56250 coupled with Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50967. The units had bars on the droplights due to limited clearances on the Cumbrian Coast line between Maryport and Carlisle. On February 5th 1988, M56250 was involved in a collision at Carnforth with an engineers wagon, and it ended its days grounded at Carnforth Midland Bottom End Yard until it was scrapped on site. Martyn Hilbert.
A two-car Class 108 DMU with Driving Trailer 54250 leading (and presumably with DMBS 53967), was accelerating away from Kirkham North Junction on the last lap of its 12 mile journey along the Coast Line with the 10.30 Blackpool South to Kirkham service on May 5th 1984. These were the days when the Coast Line via Lytham was still double track and other than a through working to Manchester Victoria on a Weekday morning and a corresponding return service in an evening, the core service ran between Blackpool South & Kirkham only, with the units utilising the reversing siding located beyond the East end of the platform at Kirkham station. Martyn Hilbert.
M54250 + M53967 leads another Class 108 departing from Appleby on March 23, 1987. John Carter.
DTS(L) M54250 (presumably paired with DMBS 53967) leads a four-car formation passing Settle Junction at 4:07pm with a service bound for Carlisle, 12/7/87. Graeme Phillips Collection.
54250 grounded at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. It, and 53967 to the right, had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year. Andrew Pilkington.
Grounded Class 108 DTC 54250 at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. It had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year, was withdrawn on February 7th 1988 an spent at least a year hidden in the yard behind engineers wagons and would eventually be cut up on site. Andrew Pilkington.
Windermere on the 17th August 1977. The unit, M50776 + M50809 + M50967 + M56250 still has 'Barrow' on the blinds. Robert Frise.
British Rail Class 108 Derby Lightweight DMU 50967 + 56250, approaching St. Annes-on-the-Sea. The DMU was working a Blackpool South - Kirkham train, Saturday 24 February 1979 The photograph is taken from St. Annes signal box, looking north. Ian 10B.
Sunlight & shade and with the former Furness Railway platform canopies in faded/worn BR maroon & cream, a two-car Class 108 DMU formed of cars M50967 & M56250 was stood at Ulverston with a Lancaster to Barrow-In-Furness service on the evening of April 19th 1980. Martyn Hilbert.
A Class 108 DMU formed of recently repainted M50967 + M56250 await to depart from Carlisle with the 15:38 to Barrow on June 1st, 1982. 86 320 is in the background. John Carter.
53967 and 54250 (grounded) at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. They had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year. Andrew Pilkington.
Damage to 53967 at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. It and 54250 had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year, this is the No 1 bogie (cab end), the buckling suggests this would have been the rearmost (fourth) bogie in the direction of travel, yet still collided with sufficient force to cause considerable damage to the steel bogie frame. Andrew Pilkington.