Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30268
Diagram: 616
30/01/58 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
30/04/67 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
27/07/86 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) |
50279 - original number
78706 - from Jul-82 (single engine conversion)
Jul-82 - Single engine conversion
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
50289 | 59109 | 50279 | As delivered to 56G - 30th January 1958 | ||||||
50264 | 59082 | 50279 | Noted 07/10/67 - at Leeds City1 | ||||||
50289 | 59048 | 50279 | Noted 27/07/68 - in Leeds City1 | ||||||
50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Huddersfield1 | ||||||
50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 18/09/1971 - at Huddersfield2 | ||||||
50235 | 59086 | 59097 | 50279 | Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1 | |||||
50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 03/05/74 - at Cambridge3 | ||||||
50279 | 59108 | Noted 29/08/74 - at York, third vehicle unrecorded3 | |||||||
50280 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 01/09/74 - at Leeds3 | ||||||
50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 09/09/1975 - at Doncaster 4 | ||||||
50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 09/01/76 - at Cambridge3 | ||||||
50281 | 59102 | 50279 | Noted 18/03/76 - at Cambridge3 | ||||||
50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 05/01/77 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 31/01/81 - at Doncaster | ||||||
50286 | 59101 | 50279 | Noted 16/07/81 - at Goole | ||||||
78956 | 78706 | Noted circa 10/19825 | |||||||
78956 | 78706 | Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds5 | |||||||
78956 | 78706 | Noted 20/08/83 | |||||||
78956 | 78706 | Noted 07/01/19845 | |||||||
78956 | 78706 | Listed at NL - 01/01/85 | |||||||
78956 | 78706 | Noted circa 07/19855 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
Class 111 DMCL E50279 is at the front of a Metro-Cammell formation seen at York circa 1976. George Woods.
A Class 111 set formed of 50279 + 59101 + 50286 run into Goole on the 16th July 1981. Chris Lings.
Class 111 DMCL E50279 outside Doncaster Works. Date unknown, possibly mid-1982 when it would undergo conversion to a single engine vehicle. Paul Redmond.
Class 111 DMCL E50279 outside Doncaster Works. Date unknown, possibly mid-1982 when it would undergo conversion to a single engine vehicle. Paul Redmond.
In the days before the Kirkham By-Pass crossed the line, a Class 111/110 six-car DMU formation was passing over Kirkham North Junction with a Saturday Blackpool North to Leeds service on July 7th 1984. The lead set is a Metro-Cammell Class 111 formed of cars 78706 and 78956, whilst behind is a BRCW Calder Valley Class 110 that had been strengthened to four-cars with the insertion of an additional centre trailer coach. Martyn Hilbert.
Metropolitan Cammell Class 111 numbers E78956 and E78706 passing the abandoned platforms of the closed Marsh Lane station running ECS from Leeds to Neville Hill. Marsh Lane station was the original terminus of the Leeds and Selby Railway and opened on 22nd September 1834, when the line was taken over by the York and North Midland Railway in 1840 the station closed as trains were diverted into Hunslet Lane station, it re-opened in 1850 when a local passenger service to Milford Junction was started, in 1869 the station was re-sited to this position with the line extended over the viaduct into the current Leeds station in 1888, the station closed on 15th September 1958. Keith Long.
E78706 at Selby the Swing Bridge and Mill in view. Date is the 27th of March 1985 and the vehicle was usually partnered with E78956. It looks like it is heading for Hull from the signalling. The KDH Archive.
Rolls-Royce powered Met-Camms E78956 + E78706 arrive into Castleford with a Leeds - Castleford service on August 20, 1983. John Carter.