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Vehicle 56111 / 977196

Class 100

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30279
Diagram: 537

Allocations

The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 50356 during the unknown period are:

w/e 05/10/57	New to	9D (Buxton)
Nov-57	Transferred to	5D (Cockshute)
Jan-58	Transferred to	8E (Brunswick)
Apr-58	Depot code change	27F
Jun-58	Transferred to	3C (Ryecroft)
Jun-60	Depot code change	21F
Sep-63	Depot code change	2G
3w/e 31/01/65	Transferred to	2H (Monument Lane)
3w/e 30/04/66	Transferred to	2G (Ryecroft)
3w/e 30/06/66	Transferred to	6A (Chester)

Then the allocations for 56111 are:

3w/e 30/03/69	Transferred to	9A (Longsight)
May 1973	Depot code change	LO
17/07/83	To departmental stock		- as TDB977196
Feb-85	Withdrawn

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56111 - original number
977196 - from Jul-83 (departmental stock)

Department Use as TDB977196

Special Instruction coach MOD Moreton-on-Lugg From 7/83 to 2/85.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50356	56111	As delivered to 9D - w/e 05/10/57
	50356	56111	Transfer to 5D - Nov-57
LT308	50538	56111	Listed at Longsight - circa Dec-69
	50538	56111	Noted 22/12/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly¹
LT299	50356	56111	Listed at 9A - circa Jul-70
	50356	56111	Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight¹
	50356	56111	Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot²
	50356	56111	Noted 23/02/76 - at Stalybridge¹
	50356	56111	Noted 10/04/76 - in Manchester Piccadilly¹
	50356	56111	Noted Sep-76 - in Manchester Piccadilly¹
	50356	56111	Noted 04/01/78
	50356	56111	Noted 18/02/1979 - at Crewe Station³
LO297	50356	56111	Noted circa 05/1982⁴
LO297	50356	56111	Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Picc⁴
LO297	50356	56111	Noted circa 09/1982⁴
	50356	56111	Noted circa 12/1982⁴
	50356	56111	Noted 15/07/1983 - Manchester Picc⁴
	50356	56111	Noted 11/08/1983 - on 16.06 Llandudno - Holyhead with 50358-56113⁴

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Shayne Lewis
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

18th June 1978

Gloucester Class 100 Driving Trailer Composite M56111 stabled with various other items of rolling stock, including two more redundant Class 100 vehicles, at Longsight TMD on June 18th 1978. After BR use, M56111 became an instruction coach on the Ministry of Defence railway system at Moreton-On-Lugg. It was eventually scrapped in 1985. Alongside is the Longsight Overhead Line Maintenance Train, with two former LMS vintage coaches visible. Martyn Hilbert.

Unknown date

A Class 100 DMU with a Cravens alongside in Manchester Piccadilly, date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.

13th November 1982

Class 100 Gloucester 2-car DMU 56111 + 50356 approaches Hoole Lane, Chester, with a service from Manchester on 13-11-82. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

9th October 1983

Class 100 Gloucester RC&W 2-car DMU 56111+50356 in Platform 1a at Crewe 9-10-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 31st August 1976

M50356 (and presumably M56111) arrives at Stalybridge with the 14:30 from Stockport (with a tail lamp at this end? maybe changing platforms?) on 31 August 1976. On the left the 12:13 Scarborough-Liverpool Lime Street departs with refurbished liveried E50169 on the rear. Robert Thomas.

Date: 8th December 1980

A GRC&W set formed of M50356 + M56111 with a Stockport train at Stalybridge on December 8th, 1980. John Carter.

Date: 29th September 1983

Class 100 Gloucester 2-car DMU 50356+56111 stabled Chester depot on 27-9-83. My notes say there were three 2-car units of he class on Chester that evening, most of the surviving sets. This one would be withdrawn towards the end of the year. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

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