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Vehicle 50289 / 53289 / 78963

Class 111

BR Diagram 524

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

Allocations

30/01/58 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
w/e 30/04/67 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-73Depot code changeNL
16/08/87 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50289 - original number
53289 - from Jul-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
78963 - from 24/02/85 (single engine conversion)

Modifications

24/02/85 - Single engine conversion

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 04/05/1979 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50289 59109 50279 As delivered to 56G - 30th January 1958
50289 59101 50274 Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1
50289 59048 50279 Noted 27/07/68 - in Leeds City1
50289 59107 50276 Noted 08/09/73 - at York2
50289 59107 50276 Noted 19/04/74 - at Leeds1
50289 59107 50276 Noted 11/1974 - at Sheffield 3
50289 59107 50280 Noted 05/03/76 - at Cambridge2
50289 59107 50276 Noted 31/03/1976 - at York3
50289 59107 50276 Noted 29/04/76 - at Cambridge2
50289 59533 51548 Noted 09/09/1978 - Leeds4
50289 59531 51559 Noted 09/08/79 - at Carnforth
50289 59531 51559 Noted circa 10/19795
50289 59531 51559 Noted 29/12/1979 - on Neville Hill depot4
50289 59531 51559 Noted 04/09/1980 - at Leeds City4
50289 59531 51554 Noted 10/05/1981 - at York4
50289 51559 Noted circa 10/19825
53289 53272 Noted 27/08/1983 - at Leeds City4
53289 53272 Noted 15/09/1984 - at Leeds City 4
53289 53272 Listed at NL - 01/01/85
78963 78713 Noted circa 06/19855
78963 78713 Noted 03/05/1986 - at Leeds City 4
78963 78721 Noted circa 11/19865
78963 78707 Noted 01/12/19865
78963 78707 Noted 28th December 1986
78963 78713 Noted 24/04/1987 - at Leeds6
78963 78721 Noted 03/11/19875

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

Images:

Class 111 DMU at Wortley North

29th April 1967

E50289 leading 1M37 Harrogate to Liverpool Exchange at Wortley North on 29th April 1967. This was the last train but one to call at Leeds Central station, the last was 2B64 Bradford Exchange to Harrogate 15mins later. Behind the Rolls-Royce powered Met-Camm three-car is a BRC&W (later Class 110) three-car with a Met-Camm centre car, then a two-car Met-Camm. Keith Long.

Class 111 DMU at Long Preston

April 1980

A refurbished three-car Class 111 DMU with DMBS E50289 closest is seen at Long Preston with a Morecambe service in April 1980. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 111 DMU at York

1st September 1986

E78963 + E78713, a Met-Camm Class 111 power twin, now running with only one engine per car, pass under Holgate Bridge, York with the 13:20 service to Selby on 1st September 1986. Nigel Mack.

Class 111 DMU at Leeds

28th February 1987

E78963 + E78709 with a Southport - York service departing from Leeds on February 28, 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 9th August 1979

Carnforth, the 9th August 1979. On train on the left is formed E50035 + E56008 + E50289 + E59531 + E51559 (Class 114 & 101/111). On the right is M56475 + M50784 + M56129 + M50374. Robert Frise.

DMU

Date: 7th October 1986

E78721 + E78963 depart Leeds with a service for Goole on the 7th October 1986. Kevin Law.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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