Vehicle 56397 / 54397

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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

w/e 14/06/58	New to	62B (Dundee)
3w/e 30/04/66	Transferred to	66C (Hamilton)
May-68	Transferred to	62B (Dundee)
May-73	Depot code change	DE
29/05/77	Transferred to	GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
11/05/86	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
28/09/86	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill)

Notes

12th June 1958 - Seen in 8-car set passing through Preston en route from Metro-Cammell to Cowlairs.

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56397 - original number
54397 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 28/07/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51239	56397							Noted 5th June 1958
	51239	56397							Noted 12th June 1958 - en route from Saltley to Cowlairs
	51239	56397							As delivered to 62B - June 1958
	51239	56397							Noted 7th July 1958 - on Aberdeen - Ballater workings
	51239	56397							Transfer to 66C - 3w/e 30/04/66
	51241	56397							Noted 24/07/1973 - at Edinburgh Waverley1
	51796	56397							Noted 06/09/76 - at Dundee2
	50294	56397							Noted circa 03/19793
	50294	56397							Noted 22/03/80 - on a Newcastle - Middlesbrough service
	50229	56397							Noted 16/01/19823
	51252	56397							Noted circa 02/19833
	53256	54397							Noted circa 03/19853
	51204	54397							Noted circa 02/19863

Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn

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Date: 22nd March 1980

E50294 + E56397 with a Newcastle - Middlesbrough service at North Shore, Stockton, on March 22, 1980. Now only a plain up and down line, the box and semaphores long gone. John Carter.