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Vehicle 56373 / 54373

Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30468
Diagram: 630

Allocations

25/09/58	New to	53C (Hull Springhead)
30/11/58	Transferred to	53B (Hull Botanic Gardens)	- (53C closed)
Jan-60	Depot code change	50C
2w/e 12/01/63	Transferred to	South Gosforth
Feb-64	Depot code change	52J
May-73	Depot code change	GF
w/e 04/09/77	Transferred to	CA (Cambridge)
Jun-87	Withdrawn from	CA (Cambridge)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56373 - original number
54373 - from Sep-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Derby Works dated 26/08/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51215	56373	As delivered to 53C - 25th September 1958
	51215	56373	Transfer to South Gosforth - 2w/e 12/01/63
	51443	56373	Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle¹
	50248	56373	Noted 02/06/1973 - at Newcastle²
	50248	56373	Noted 09/06/73 - at Thornaby³
	51212	56373	Noted 17/04/74 - at Leeds¹
	51212	56373	Noted 28/08/74 - at Carlisle³
	51212	56373	Noted 07/01/75 - at York³
	51212	56373	Noted 24/08/75 - in Newcastle Central³
	51212	56373	Noted 06/11/75 - at Brough¹
	51212	56373	Noted 23/02/76
	51212	56373	Noted 03/04/76 - in Newcastle Central³
	51225	56373	Noted 30/08/1979 - At Hitchin Depot⁴
	51225	56373	Noted 02/08/80 - on 15.53 Cambridge - Peterborough
	51225	54373	Noted circa 12/1984⁵
	51225	54373	Noted 25/06/85 - at Norwich³
	51225	54373	Listed at Cambridge - circa Nov-85
	51225	54373	Noted 07/02/1986⁵
	51225	54373	Listed at Cambridge - Summer 1986
08	51225	54373	Formed at CA circa Jun-86
	51225	54373	Noted 27/10/88 - on 07:47 Banbury - Marylebone⁶

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn
6: David Bellamy

Images:

Unknown date

A two-car Met-Camm set in Carlisle station with a Newcastle service. Circa 1970s, E56373 closest was a South Gosforth vehicle until 1977 when it moved to Cambridge. Walter Burt Collection.

Unknown date

A Class 101 DMU in Royston station, probably on the shuttle to Cambridge. Undated, circa late 1970s or early 1980s. E56373 seems to be the closest vehicle. Stuart Mackay Collection.

2nd May 1979

E56373 leads this two-car refurbished Class 101 set at Abbots Ripton on May 2, 1979, heading for Hitchin. Steve Davies Collection.

8th May 1987

Set number: 08

A grubby Met-Camm set 08 (presumably 54373 + 51225) with the 15:55 Hitchin - Huntingdon prepares to depart Sandy (1625) Friday 8th May 1987. Colin Brooks.

8th May 1987

Set number: 08

101 Set CA08 (presumably 54373 + 51225) with the 15:55 Hitchin - Huntingdon arriving into Hitchin (at 16:00) on Friday 8th May 1987. This was the last weekday of DMU working between Hitchin and Huntingdon. Set CA11 is in the sidings. Colin Brooks.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: February 1976

Alston, February 1976. At 12:30pm, cars 51212 56373 wait to return to Haltwhistle. Original slide says M 22/02/1976, but that date is a Sunday and the timetable for the period had no Sunday services on the branch... on a weekday, the next departure would be 1245 Alston-Haltwhistle. The branch was closed within three months of this slide being taken. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Date: 2nd August 1980

On Saturday August 2nd 1980, the 15.53 Cambridge - Peterborough service is formed of Cambridge allocated Met-Cam E51225 + E56373 when seen at March West Jn. These sets had been refurbished and were normally found on the Cambridge - Royston or Bishop's Stortford shuttles with only occasional forays elsewhere. Gerard Fletcher.

Date: 9th March 1985

Set number: 74

Cambridge with 54373/51225 on the left, with 53215/54368 to the right ahead of class 114, 53046/54030. 9 March 1985. Rob Paterson.

Date: 12th August 1987

E53363, E54376 and E54373 withdrawn at Ely yard, August 12, 1987. Nicholas Youngman.

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