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Vehicle 50279 / 78706

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: 30268
Diagram: 616

Allocations

30/01/58	New to	56G (Hammerton Street)
30/04/67	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)
May-73	Depot code change	NL
27/07/86	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50279 - original number
78706 - from Jul-82 (single engine conversion)

Modifications

Jul-82 - Single engine conversion

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 30/11/1979 released in blue/grey 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
50264	59082	50279		Noted 07/10/67 - at Leeds City¹
50289	59048	50279		Noted 27/07/68 - in Leeds City¹
50286	59108	50279		Noted 04/06/71 - at Huddersfield¹
50286	59108	50279		Noted 18/09/1971 - at Huddersfield²
50235	59086	59097	50279	Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds¹
50286	59108	50279		Noted 03/05/74 - at Cambridge³
50279	59108			Noted 29/08/74 - at York, third vehicle unrecorded³
50280	59108	50279		Noted 01/09/74 - at Leeds³
50286	59108	50279		Noted 09/09/1975 - at Doncaster ⁴
50286	59108	50279		Noted 09/01/76 - at Cambridge³
50281	59102	50279		Noted 18/03/76 - at Cambridge³
50286	59108	50279		Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds¹
50286	59108	50279		Noted 05/01/77 - at Leeds¹
50286	59108	50279		Noted 31/01/81 - at Doncaster
50286	59101	50279		Noted 16/07/81 - at Goole
78956	78706			Noted circa 10/1982⁵
78956	78706			Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds⁵
78956	78706			Noted 20/08/83
78956	78706			Noted 07/01/1984⁵
78956	78706			Listed at NL - 01/01/85
78956	78706			Noted circa 07/1985⁵

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

Images:

circa 1976

Class 111 DMCL E50279 is at the front of a Metro-Cammell formation seen at York circa 1976. George Woods.

16th July 1981

A Class 111 set formed of 50279 + 59101 + 50286 run into Goole on the 16th July 1981. Chris Lings.

1982

Class 111 DMCL E50279 outside Doncaster Works. Date unknown, possibly mid-1982 when it would undergo conversion to a single engine vehicle. Paul Redmond.

circa mid-1982

Class 111 DMCL E50279 outside Doncaster Works. Date unknown, possibly mid-1982 when it would undergo conversion to a single engine vehicle. Paul Redmond.

7th July 1984

In the days before the Kirkham By-Pass crossed the line, a Class 111/110 six-car DMU formation was passing over Kirkham North Junction with a Saturday Blackpool North to Leeds service on July 7th 1984. The lead set is a Metro-Cammell Class 111 formed of cars 78706 and 78956, whilst behind is a BRCW Calder Valley Class 110 that had been strengthened to four-cars with the insertion of an additional centre trailer coach. Martyn Hilbert.

24th July 1984

Metropolitan Cammell Class 111 numbers E78956 and E78706 passing the abandoned platforms of the closed Marsh Lane station running ECS from Leeds to Neville Hill. Marsh Lane station was the original terminus of the Leeds and Selby Railway and opened on 22nd September 1834, when the line was taken over by the York and North Midland Railway in 1840 the station closed as trains were diverted into Hunslet Lane station, it re-opened in 1850 when a local passenger service to Milford Junction was started, in 1869 the station was re-sited to this position with the line extended over the viaduct into the current Leeds station in 1888, the station closed on 15th September 1958. Keith Long.

27th March 1985

E78706 at Selby the Swing Bridge and Mill in view. Date is the 27th of March 1985 and the vehicle was usually partnered with E78956. It looks like it is heading for Hull from the signalling. The KDH Archive.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 20th August 1983

Rolls-Royce powered Met-Camms E78956 + E78706 arrive into Castleford with a Leeds - Castleford service on August 20, 1983. John Carter.

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