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Vehicle 50420 / 53420


Class 104

Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30290
Diagram: 556

Allocations

Apr-57 New to 9A (Longsight)
Sep-57 Transferred to 9D (Buxton)
Sep-63Depot code change9L
06/05/73Depot code changeBX
27/04/86 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
11/05/86 Withdrawn from NH (Newton Heath)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50420 - original number
53420 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50420 59132 50424 As delivered to - Apr-57
50420 59132 50424 Noted 20th April 1957
50420 59132 50424 Noted 25/11/67 - at Stockport Edgeley1
50420 59140 50424 Noted 13/08/70 - in Manchester Piccadilly2
50420 59132 50424 Noted 18/09/1971 - at Stockport3
50420 59132 50424 Noted 04/09/74 - in Manchester Piccadilly2
50420 59138 50424 Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot2
50420 59132 50424 Noted 24/05/80
50420 59163 50426 Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Picc4
BX483 50420 59163 50426 Noted circa 09/19824
BX480 50420 59163 50426 Noted circa 10/1982 - Previously BX483.4
BX480 53420 59163 53426 Noted circa 11/1984 - listed at BX4
53420 59152 53474 Noted 27/01/85
BX480 53420 59152 53474 Noted circa 06/19854
BX480 53420 59152 53474 Listed at BX - circa Jul-85
BX480 53420 59152 53474 Listed at BX - circa Dec-85
53420 53427 Formation change - NH - Mar-86

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

Images:

Class 104 DMU at Cleobury Mortimer

circa April 57

An official image of M50420 + M59132 + M50424, probably at Cleobury Mortimer. British Railways.

Class 104 DMU at Buxton depot

1st December 1979

Set number: BN455

Buxton Class 104 DMU set BN455 on Longsight depot on 1 December 1979. Closest is DMBS M50420. Brian Daniels.

Class 104 DMU at Kirkham &amp; Wesham

1st April 1981

Set number: BN455

Complete with its Buxton depot trademark of a white cab roof, BRCW Class 104 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50420 was leading a six-car Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service along the station avoiding line at Kirkham & Wesham on August 1st 1981. In the cab window is Buxton set number BN455. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 104 DMU at Furness Vale

27th January 1985

On a snowy winters day Buxton based BRC&W class 104 dmu headed by the first of the class, M53420 with M59152, M53474, stand in my home village of Furness Vale, with a Buxton-Manchester Piccadilly service, 27th January 1985. Andrew J Crowther.

Class 104 DMU at Heaton Chapel

9th March 1985

Buxton based BRC&W class 104 dmu (M53420, M59152, M53474) breezes through Heaton Chapel with a Buxton-Manchester Piccadilly service, overtaking 25kv class 304 emu 304013 as it slows for its station stop. 9th March 1985. Andrew J Crowther.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 29th June 1985

Set number: BX496

Stratford-upon-Avon used to be the destination for many special trains although the number of such workings has lessened in recent years. This picture shows one of these, the Poynton Parish Puffa, standing in the long-gone "cold store" sidings on 29 June 1985. This train was formed of class 108+104 combination (closest being BX496, presumably 51947/59155/52062, the other was BX480, presumably 53420/59152/53474) and, obviously enough I suppose, ran from Poynton in Cheshire, which incidentally is a very attractively decorated station, adorned with many enamel advertisements. Peter Tandy.

DMU

Date: 29th June 1985

Set number: BX480

The passengers on the Poynton Parish Puffa were treated at Stratford-upon-Avon to a visit by the steam locomotive 46229 Duchess of Hamilton on 29 June 1985 although I don't recall taking any pictures of this. The return working of the steam special left a short while before the DMU (BX480, presumably 53474/59152/53420 and BX496, presumably 52062/59155/51947) went back to Cheshire and I photographed the latter from the window of the signal box. The industrial units in the background are the site of the erstwhile Stratford-upon-Avon shed and coaling stage. The entire backdrop is virtually unrecognisable nowadays and the signal box itself was demolished many years ago. Peter Tandy.

DMU

Date: 14th July 1985

Set number: BX484

Class 104 set BX484 at Llandudno on 14/7/85 with 'Stockport' on the destination blind. There is another set behind. From the left the vehicles are: M53431, M59137, M53496, M53420, M59152 and M53474. Kenneth Leiper.