Vehicle 50278 / 53278 / 78712
Class 111
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
Allocations
| 23/01/58 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
| w/e 30/04/67 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
| p/e 07/10/89 | Sector Change to | NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ | |
| 23/10/89 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50278 - original number
53278 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
78712 - from circa Sep-84 (single engine conversion)
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated 05/02/1982 released in blue/grey liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50288 | 59108 | 50278 | As delivered to 56G - 23rd January 1958 | ||||||
| 50288 | 59108 | 50278 | Noted 05/08/66 - at Wakefield Kirkgate1 | ||||||
| 50288 | 59108 | 50278 | Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1 | ||||||
| 50288 | 59105 | 50278 | Noted 20/07/68 - in Leeds City1 | ||||||
| 50288 | 59105 | 50278 | Noted 27/07/68 - at Leeds City1 | ||||||
| 50288 | 59089 | 50278 | Noted 29/08/70 - at York1 | ||||||
| L173 | 50283 | 59571 | 50278 | Noted circa 19712 | |||||
| 50283 | 59571 | 50278 | Noted 03/09/1971 - at York3 | ||||||
| 50283 | 59571 | 50278 | Noted 18/09/1971 - at Leeds3 | ||||||
| 50283 | 59571 | 50278 | Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
| 50278 | 59571 | 50283 | Noted 12/12/75 - at Cambridge4 | ||||||
| 50283 | 59571 | 50278 | Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
| 50283 | 59571 | 50278 | Noted 31/12/76 - at Manchester Victoria1 | ||||||
| 50278 | Noted 20/01/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle4 | ||||||||
| 50283 | 59571 | 50278 | Noted circa 11/19792 | ||||||
| 50283 | 59571 | 50278 | Noted circa 04/19822 | ||||||
| 50283 | 50278 | Noted circa 10/19822 | |||||||
| 50283 | 50278 | Noted circa 02/19832 | |||||||
| 53283 | 53278 | Noted circa 05/19842 | |||||||
| 53283 | 53278 | Noted 17/05/84 | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Listed at NL - 01/01/85 | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted circa 06/19852 | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted 17/05/86 - on 13:25 Morecambe - Leeds with 51230 + 54369 / 53257 + 540905 | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted 25/05/86 - on 16:22 Carlisle - Leeds with 54018 + 53047 / 51425 + 515045 | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted 05/10/19862 | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted 26/09/87 - on 06:08 Chesterfield - Sheffield | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Listed at NL - 22/11/87 | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted 28/11/87 - on 11:15 Sheffield - Leeds via Barnsley5 | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Listed at NL - early Apr-88 | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted 29/07/88 - on 22:22 Lincoln-Sheffield | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted 21/08/1988 - 51529-51795+78712-78962 noted working from York to Redmire | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted 24/09/88 - on 14:17 Sheffield - Lincoln Central | |||||||
| 78962 | 78712 | Noted circa 11/19882 | |||||||
| 204 | 78962 | 78712 | Listed at NL - Feb-89 | ||||||
| 78712 | 78962 | Noted 31/07/89 - on 13:02 Leeds - Carlisle hauled by 47301 with 53641 + 532916 | |||||||
| NL204 | 78962 | 78712 | Listed at NL - 05/09/89 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Martin Baumann
6: Graeme Phillips
Images:
circa January 1958
A scene that epitomises the early years of DMU travel in Yorkshire. A Rolls-Royce powered Metropolitan-Cammell 3-car unit with E50278 trailing stands in platform 1B at Huddersfield forming a service to Wakefield Kirkgate on a misty winter's day in the 'pre-whisker' era of the late-1950s, possibly shortly after delivery in January 1958 (to Hammerton Street). The other two vehicles are presumably 59108 + 50288. Gordon Edgar Collection.
29th November 1980
A Class 111 set at Sheffield Midland, with 50278 closest. 29/11/80. Chris Lings.
17th May 1984
Rolls-Royce powered Class 111 set E53278 + E53283 at Shipley on a Ilkley - Bradford F.Sq. working, 17/5/84. Hamish Stevenson.
12th August 1990
Met-Camm single-engine conversion E78712 in Snailwell on August 12, 1990. Nicholas Youngman.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 9th August 1980
With the Rowntree-Macintosh chocolate factory alongside, a Metro-Cammell Class 101 three-car DMU formed of cars E50283, E59571 & E50278 was stood at Halifax with the daily Leeds to Blackpool North service on August 9th 1980. During this period, this out-and-back Monday-Saturday working was the only regular timetabled passenger train to use the Copy Pit route between Hall Royd Junction at Todmorden and Gannow Junction at Burnley. Martyn Hilbert.