Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30602
Diagram: 646
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 51909 during the unknown period are:
30/04/60 | New to | 18A (Toton) | |
4w/e 31/12/60 | Transferred to | 8H (Allerton) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 8J | |
3w/e 31/10/65 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 8J (Allerton) |
Then the allocations for 56492 are:
29/03/87 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
10/05/87 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
02/11/87 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) | |
29/07/91 | Withdrawn from | BR (Bristol Bath Road) PBRX |
56492 - original number
54492 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Preserved - more details.
Vehicle maintenance record (1mb pdf), courtesy of Dean Forest DMU Group.
51909 | 56492 | As delivered to 18A - 30th April 1960 | |||||||
51419 | 56492 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Allerton1 | |||||||
51914 | 56492 | Noted 01/09/72 - in Liverpool Lime Street1 | |||||||
51912 | 56492 | Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot2 | |||||||
51922 | 56492 | Noted 05/01/77 - in Liverpool Lime Street1 | |||||||
51417 | 56492 | Noted 04/06/1977 - 1818 Manchester Victoria - Lime Street with 51911-562763 | |||||||
51417 | 56492 | Noted 13/08/1977 - 08.25 Lime Street to Bangor with 51913-56493 and 51918-564963 | |||||||
51417 | 56492 | Noted 22/08/1977 - 08.07 Lime Street to Warrington Central3 | |||||||
51417 | 56492 | Noted 27/08/1977 - 09.58 Lime Street - Llandudno with 51909-56484 and 51937-520643 | |||||||
51417 | 56492 | Noted 13/09/1977 - 12.07 Lime Street to Warrington Central with 50968-562513 | |||||||
51417 | 56492 | Noted 24/09/1977 - 12.50 Lime Street to Wigan NW with 50943-515703 | |||||||
51910 | 56492 | Noted 24/05/80 | |||||||
51913 | 56492 | Noted circa 12/19823 | |||||||
51913 | 56492 | Noted circa 02/19833 | |||||||
51942 | 56492 | Noted circa 03/19833 | |||||||
53627 | 54492 | Noted 30th November 1986 | |||||||
T213 | 51934 | 54492 | Listed at TS - Jul-87 | ||||||
TS213 | 51934 | 54492 | Noted 05/09/87 - at Norwich2 | ||||||
B970 | 53622 | 54492 | Formed at BR circa 11/87 | ||||||
B967 | 53619 | 54492 | Listed at BR - 29/02/88 | ||||||
spare | 54492 | Formation change - BR - circa May-88 | |||||||
B962 | 53612 | 54492 | Listed at BR - 15/05/89 | ||||||
B962 | 53612 | 54492 | Noted 22/03/90 - on 2B87 1724 Bristol TM-Cardiff running vice loco | ||||||
B962 | 53612 | 54492 | Noted 23/03/90 - on 2B87 1724 Bristol TM-Cardiff running vice loco | ||||||
B962 | 53612 | 54492 | Noted circa 04/19903 | ||||||
53619 | 54492 | Noted 29th June 1991 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
Class 108 DMU set B967, 54492 + 53619, heads south at Coedmoor, between Hereford and Tram Inn, with a Cardiff bound service. 23rd April 1988. John Crooks.
Class 108 set B962 (54492 + 53612) at Bristol Temple Meads on 4/3/89. Sparegang.
BR (Derby) Class 108 2-car Local Passenger dmu Set No.B962 consisting of cars No.E54492 (Class 142) & No.53612 (Class 108/2), refurbished, 1960 batch, with blanked-off 4-character headcode panel in Rail Blue & Grey livery with all yellow front ends and black window surrounds and a red bufferbeams at Nailsea & Backwell on a Bristol (Temple Meads) - Taunton service, 05/89. Hugh Llewelyn.
BR (Derby) Class 108 2-car Local Passenger dmu Set No.B962 (54492 and presumably 53612) at Bristol (Temple Meads) on a Taunton - Cardiff service, 05/91. Hugh Llewelyn.
M56492, M50385, M50521, M50446, M50958 at Preston on 15-04-82. Vincent Haworth.
Two Class 108 DMUs in Clifton Down station on 8 April 1988. On the right is B964 (53614 and presumably 54204) with the 18:03 Severn Beach - Bristol Temple Meads, on the left is B967 presumably with 54492 in view departing on the 18:12 Bristol Temple Meads - Severn Beach. Michael Mensing.
Class 108 set no. B962 formed DMBS 53612 and DTCL 54492 at Bristol Parson Street heading for Taunton on 8/Apr/1989. Robert Chilton.