Vehicle 56041 / 54041

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Class 114

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30210
Diagram: 641

Allocations

08/03/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
28/09/86	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)
19/10/86	To Parcels Sector at	LN (Lincoln)
21/06/87	Transferred to	CA (Cambridge)
19/12/87	Transferred to	TS (Tyseley)
27/11/88	Transferred to	CA (Cambridge)
04/06/90	Withdrawn from	CA (Cambridge) RPXX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56041 - original number
54041 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

02/02/80 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 04/11/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50041	56041							As delivered to 40A - 8th March 1957
	50041	56041							Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1
	50020	56041							Noted May 1968
	50041	56041							Noted 27/06/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2
	50040	56041							Noted 04/08/1971 - at Nottingham3
	50041	56041							Noted 05/08/1974 - at Sheffield 3
	50041	56041							Noted 24/08/74 - at Grimsby Town4
	50030	56041							Noted 08/09/75 - at Doncaster with 50026/560021
	50019	56041							Noted 30/04/76 - at Doncaster4
	50047	56041							Noted 21/02/77 - at Lincoln1
	50047	56041							Noted 24/03/77 - at Cambridge4
	50013	56041							Noted 11/02/78 - in Sheffield Midland5
	50013	56041							Noted 17/06/78 - at Doncaster5
	50024	56041							Noted 09/06/79 - at Toton5
	50011	56041							Noted 20/09/1981 - on Botanic Gardens depot5
	50011	56041							Noted 16/01/19822
	50011	56041							Noted 25/07/1982 - in Doncaster Works5
	50011	56041							Noted circa 02/19832
	53041	54041							Noted 10/09/1983 - at Sheffield Midland5
	53018	54041							Noted circa 01/19862
	53018	54041							Noted circa 08/19862
	53018	54041							Noted 19th August 1986
	53040	54041							Noted circa 10/1986 - Parcels set2
	53040	54041							19/10/86 LN - Reinstated to parcels sector
	53010	54041							Noted 02/01/87 - on Cambridge depot, parcel set4
	53010	54041							Noted 25th February 1987
	53027	54041							Noted 02/09/87
	53027	54041							Noted 08/11/87 - at Norwich, parcel set4
T022	53027	54041							Noted 21st February 1988
T022	53027	54041							Noted circa 04/19882
T022	53027	54041							Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
	53027	54041							Noted 26/07/88 - on 16:30 Doncaster-Skegness
	53027	54041							Noted 06/02/89 - parcels6
	53027	54041							Noted 29/11/89 - at Norwich4
	53027	54041							Noted 01/12/1989 - at Leeds City5

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

Images:

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18th June 1970

E56041 (Skegness on blind) and E56029 (Mablethorpe on blind) in Firsby station on 18 June 1970. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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1978

A Class 114 DMU in white & blue Refurbished livery, led by E56041, is captured soon after departure from Doncaster, with a service to Sheffield, in 1978. Graeme Phillips Collection.

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circa September 1980

A Class 114 DMU, DTCL E56041 closest, in Barton-on-Humber station. The slide process date was September 1980. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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March 1983

With Nottingham showing on the blind, E56041 leads this 114 set over the crossing at Lincoln in March 1983. Eastwestdivide.

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21st August 1988

Set number: T022

Class 114 parcels set 54041 + 53027 heading towards Shrewsbury at Whitchurch Salop on 21-8-1988. Russ Burrows.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 9th October 1986

With DMUs being virtually extinct from Kings Cross since the mid 1970s a short comeback occurred around 1986 with the conversion of class 114 and 105 vehicles to carry parcels only. This is a class 114 Parcels set formed of E53040+E54041 leaving Gasworks Tunnel as they trundle into Platform 1 at Kings Cross with 4R33 parcels service from Hitchin on 9 October 1986. Nigel Mack.

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Date: 11th July 1987

E53017 faces E54041 at Cambridge on the 11th July 1987. Malcolm Clements.

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Date: 12th August 1987

Class 114 E53027 + E54041 and Class 101 54050 + 53231 leave Ely with the 10.13 Cambridge to Peterborough, 12.08.87. Nicholas Youngman.

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Date: 26th December 1987

Set number: T022

Class 114 53027 is seen at Tyseley carriage sidings on 26.12.1987, presumably with 54041. Carrying set number T022, the Tyseley set numbers beginning with '0' were at this time were for the Parcels units. It had been transferred here from Cambridge that month. Andy Cole.