Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30468
Diagram: 630
02/10/58 | New to | South Gosforth | |
Feb-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
2w/e 09/04/78 | Transferred to | DN (Darlington) | |
w/e 17/09/78 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
04/10/87 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
06/03/88 | Stored U. | NH (Newton Heath) | |
3w/e 20/05/88 | Reinstated | NH (Newton Heath) | |
2w/e 12/12/88 | Stored | CP | |
08/03/89 | Withdrawn | PMNX |
56375 - original number
54375 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
51217 | 56375 | As delivered to South Gosforth - 2nd October 1958 | |||||||
50204 | 56375 | Noted 03/09/73 - at Carlisle1 | |||||||
50156 | 56375 | Noted 07/01/75 - in Newcastle Central1 | |||||||
50156 | 56375 | Noted 14/06/1975 - Seen at Glaisdale2 | |||||||
50219 | 56375 | Noted 07/08/1978 - at Middlesbrough 3 | |||||||
50219 | 56375 | Noted 22/08/78 - on 10:47 Darlington - Saltburn4 | |||||||
50247 | 56375 | Noted 21/07/82 - at Billingham | |||||||
51208 | 56375 | Noted 28/08/82 - on a Sunderland-Newcastle service | |||||||
51229 | 56375 | Noted circa 02/19832 | |||||||
53246 | 54375 | Noted circa 03/19852 | |||||||
53248 | 54375 | Noted circa 02/19862 | |||||||
53200 | 54375 | Noted 12/10/1986 - at Heaton Depot2 | |||||||
53200 | 54375 | Noted 22/11/19862 | |||||||
53256 | 54375 | Noted 21/03/87 - at Middlesbrough | |||||||
N623 | 53857 | 54375 | Listed at NH - May-88 | ||||||
N361 | 53857 | 54375 | Noted circa Jul-88 | ||||||
N623 | 53857 | 54375 | Noted circa Jul-88 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Phil Shatford
A two-car Class 101 DMU led by 56375 at Alston on 3 May 1975. Its partner at the time should be 50156. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A passenger approaches the Met-Camm DMU forming an Alston service in Haltwhistle station on 3 May 1975. Closest is E56375, which still has first class seats in the front saloon but no longer any sign of first class markings. Its partner at the time should be 50156. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Class 101 DMU in Newcastle station, date unknown. DTSL E56375 is closest. Paul Redmond.
A 2-car Class 101 unit (consisting of cars 56375/51208) crosses the High Level Bridge at Newcastle on a Sunderland-Newcastle working - 28 August 1982. Lewis Bevan.
Stabled at Newcastle on 15 March 1986 are 55667 of unit 143001 and 55652 of unit 143011, Class 101 No E54375 has just arrived to join them. Keith Long.
Many stored Met-Camm vehicles and a couple of suburban cars at Crewe Carriage Sidings on 26 March 1988. The only identifiable vehicle is E54375 on the right, it's allocation on this date being as Newton Heath stored unserviceable, it would be reinstated a few weeks later but back in store by the end of the year. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Redundant DMU cars, mostly Met-Cam Class 101's including 54375 on the right and some un-gangwayed suburban vehicles, sit awaiting their fate in the carriage sidings, just south of Crewe station on 28th March 1988. Paul James.
A Class 101 DMU - thought to be 50156 + 56375 - crossing Lambley Viaduct on the Alston Branch on 3 May 1975. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A two-car Class 101 DMU in Alston station on 3 May 1975. E50156 is thought to be closest, the DTSL is E56375. Stuart Mackay Collection.
50247 & 56375 pass Billingham, 21 July 1982. Jerry Glover.
Class 101 DMBS 53256 (nearest) and DTCL 54375 make a smokey departure from Middlesbrough on a cold 21/Mar/1987. Robert Chilton.