Vehicle 56404 / 54404
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 12/07/58 | New to | 62B (Dundee) | |
| 3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 64H (Leith Central) | |
| 5w/e 04/02/67 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| May-68 | Transferred to | 64H (Leith Central) | |
| Mar-72 | Transferred to | 62B (Dundee) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | DE | |
| 4w/e 30/04/77 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
| 25/12/77 | Transferred to | GF (South Gosforth) | |
| w/e 23/07/78 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
| 11/05/86 | Transferred to | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 29/03/87 | Transferred to | NC (Norwich) | |
| 31/03/88 | Withdrawn from | NC (Norwich) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
56404 - original number
54404 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated 17/10/1979 released in blue/grey liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51246 | 56404 | As delivered to 62B - July 1958 | |||||||
| 51245 | 56404 | Transfer to 66C - 5w/e 04/02/67 | |||||||
| 51235 | 56404 | Noted 11/09/71 - at Edinburgh Waverley1 | |||||||
| 51244 | 56404 | Noted 06/04/72 - in Edinburgh Waverley1 | |||||||
| 51244 | 56404 | Noted 26/07/1973 - at Edinburgh Waverley2 | |||||||
| 51244 | 56404 | Noted 04/09/73 - at Haymarket3 | |||||||
| 56404 | Noted 13/08/77 - on Haymarket depot, loose vehicle3 | ||||||||
| 51252 | 56404 | Noted 14/02/81 - on 15:30 Newcastle - South Shields | |||||||
| 50229 | 56404 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||||
| 53205 | 54404 | Noted circa 02/19864 | |||||||
| 53167 | 54404 | Noted circa 10/19864 | |||||||
| 73 | 53252 | 54404 | Noted 05/04/87 - at Norwich3 | ||||||
| 70 | 53252 | 54404 | Noted 30/05/1987 - at Norwich Crown Point5 | ||||||
| 70 | 53252 | 54404 | Noted circa 08/19874 | ||||||
| 73 | 53252 | 54404 | Listed at NC - Dec-87 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton
Images:
14th February 1981
In rapidly fading Winter sunlight, cars E56404 E51252 call at Tyne Dock with the 15:30 Newcastle - South Shields on 14/2/81. British Rail services came to an end soon after in May 1981 to make way for the Tyneside Metro system. Graeme Phillips Collection.
22nd December 1987
A Class 101 / 105 formation with E54404 + E53252 / E53359 + E54122 is seen near Ely on December 22nd, 1987. Nicholas Youngman.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: September 1979
Ex-works E50251 at the front of a Newcastle service at Carlisle in September 1979. Paired with a plain-blue driver trailer, which seems to be 56404, and working with a Cravens set. Karel 1999.
Date: 14th February 1981
DMBS E51252 and DTS(L) E56404 are seen working the 14:38 South Shields - Newcastle, just departed from High Shields station, which is visible in the background to the extreme left, on 14/2/81. This station closed on 30/05/1981, and the route was converted to the Tyneside Metro network - this station did not survive, Chichester station being constructed at a different location. Surviving structures on the skyline include the gasometer (left, behind station), and South Shields Town Hall clock tower (centre right). Graeme Phillips Collection.
Date: 10th August 1988
Two withdrawn Met-Camm driver trailers in Norwich on 10th August 1988. 54404 is on the right, 54058 in the centre and a Cravens DMBS is on the left, possibly 51292.All ended up at Snailwell by February 1989. Nicholas Youngman.
Date: 30th July 1989
Set number: 73
E53252 still carries its former Norwich set number 73 on the front window (which was with trailer E54404). At Snailwell on 30 July 1989. Nicholas Youngman.