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: 30338
Diagram: 524
13/12/57 | 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23/10/89 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ |
50283 - original number
53283 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
78962 - from circa Sep-84 (single engine conversion)
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
50283 | 59103 | 50273 | As delivered to 56G - 13th December 1957 | ||||||
50283 | 59533 | 51553 | Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1 | ||||||
50283 | 59201 | 50273 | Noted 19/08/70 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
50283 | 59571 | 51543 | Noted 27/10/75 - at Brough1 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
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 | 53196 | Noted 17/07/86 - at York4 | |||||||
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
An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative unknown, DZ186ish) showing a new three-car Rolls-Royce powered set with E50283 + E59103 visible, thought to be at Castle Bromwich, circa December 1957. Metropolitan Cammell.
An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative negative unknown, DZ187-ish) showing a new three-car Rolls-Royce powered set E50283 + E59103 + E52073 at Castle Bromwich, circa December 1957. Metropolitan Cammell.
A three-car Class 111 at Alne on May 30, 1976, with E50283 at the front. Steve Davies Collection.
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.
A two-car Met-Camm DMU at Thornaby, date unknown. Paul Redmond.
In Sheffield station on 15 April 1987 are 43083 with 1M15 08.17 Leeds - St Pancras and Class 111 DHBS 78962. Dave Warby Collection.
Seen at Thorne Junction on 25 September 1987 are Class 111 vehicle 78962 and 78718 with the 15:02 Doncaster - Hull service. Dave Warby Collection.
Single-engine conversion Met-Camm E78962 in Snailwell on 10 July 1990. Nicholas Youngman.
Rolls-Royce powered Class 111 set E53278 + E53283 at Shipley on a Ilkley - Bradford F.Sq. working, 17/5/84. Hamish Stevenson.