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Vehicle 51556 / 78723

Class 111

BR Diagram 617

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: 30509
Diagram: 617

Allocations

29/01/60 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
May-60 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-73Depot code changeNL
16/08/87 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

51556 - original number
78723 - from 24/03/85 (single engine conversion)

Modifications

24/03/85 - Single engine conversion

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 21/09/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51546 51556 As delivered to 56G - 29th January 1960
51549 59696 51556 Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1
51546 59572 51556 Noted 15/08/1970 - at York2
L180 51548 59533 51556 Noted 08/09/73 - in Leeds City3
51548 59533 51556 Noted 10/08/74 - at Peterborough3
51548 59533 51556 Noted 02/11/1974 - at Sheffield 2
50201 51548 59533 51556 Noted 07/01/75 - at York, 3-car with 50201 attached3
51556 59055 59089 51560 Noted 16/09/75 - at Hull1
51546 59533 51556 Noted 09/02/76 - at Brough1
51548 59533 51556 Noted 17/03/77 - on Cambridge depot3
51548 59532 51556 Noted circa 10/19814
51548 59533 51556 Noted 02/07/82 - on 10.50 Bradford - York and 12.11 return
51548 51556 Noted circa 10/19824
51548 51556 Noted circa 03/19834
51556 51548 Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds4
51548 51556 Listed at NL - 01/01/85
78973 78723 Noted circa 06/19854
78973 78723 Noted 22/07/85 - at Keighley with E78717 + E78967
78973 78723 Noted 19th August 1986
78973 78723 Noted 29/09/19864
78973 78723 Noted 01/11/19864
78960 78723 Noted 24/04/1987 - at Sheffield5

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton

Images:

Class 111 DMU at Cattal

circa 1985

Class 111 vehicles 78723 78973 draw into Cattal, North Yorkshire, in the mid-1980s. The station is on way from Leeds to York via Harrogate. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 111 DMU at Keighley

22nd July 1985

Two single-engined Met-Camm sets at Keighley on July 22, 1985: E78723 + E78973 / E78717 + E78967. John Carter.

Class 111 DMU at Snailwell

15th May 1988

Class 111 single engine conversion E78723 at Snailwell on the 15th May 1988. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 2nd July 1982

Metro-Cammell three car dmu E51548 + E59533 + E51556 at rest in York station having arrived as the 10.50 from Bradford. The set went back on the 12.11 departure. July 2nd 1982. Gerard Fletcher.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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