Vehicle 51548 / 78973

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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: 30508
Diagram: 615

Allocations

12/02/60	New to	56G (Hammerton Street)
2w/e 30/04/60	Transferred to	55F (Manningham)
3w/e 02/07/60	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)
May-73	Depot code change	NL
18/01/87	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

51548 - original number
78973 - from 24/03/85 (single engine conversion)

Modifications

Dec-73 - AWS fitted
24/03/85 - Single engine conversion

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 04/10/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51548	51558							As delivered to 56G - 12th February 1960
	51548	51558							Transfer to 55F - 2w/e 30/04/60
	51548	51558							Transfer to 55H - 3w/e 02/07/60
	51548	59105	51555						Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1
	51548	59087	51558						Noted 27/07/68 - in Leeds City1
	51548	59536	51553						Noted 12/07/69 - at Brough1
L180	51548	59533	51556						Noted 08/09/73 - in Leeds City2
	51548	59533	51556						Noted 10/08/74 - at Peterborough2
	51548	59533	51556						Noted 02/11/1974 - at Sheffield 3
	50201	51548	59533	51556					Noted 07/01/75 - at York, 3-car with 50201 attached2
	51548	59533	51556						Noted 17/03/77 - on Cambridge depot2
	50289	59533	51548						Noted 09/09/1978 - Leeds4
	50287	59533	51548						Noted 21/04/1979 - Hammerton Street4
	51548	59533	52081						Noted 21/04/1979 - at Bradford Exchange4
	51548	59532	51556						Noted circa 10/19815
	51548	59533	51556						Noted 02/07/82 - on 10.50 Bradford - York and 12.11 return
	51548	51556							Noted circa 10/19825
	51548	51556							Noted circa 03/19835
	51548	51556							Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds5
	51548	51556							Noted 31/03/1984 - at Leeds City4
	51548	51556							Listed at NL - 01/01/85
	78973	78723							Noted circa 06/19855
	78973	78723							Noted 22/07/85 - at Keighley with E78717 + E78967
	78973	78723							Noted 19th August 1986
	78973	78723							Noted 29/09/19865
	78973	78723							Noted 01/11/19865

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

Images:

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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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29th January 1983

A Class 111 DMU formed of vehicles E51548 + E51556 in Harrogate station on 29 January 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 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.

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Date: 22nd July 1985

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