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Vehicle 52037

Class 108

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30660
Diagram: 638

Allocations

09/07/60	New to	26A (Newton Heath)
Nov-60	Transferred to	8H (Allerton)
Sep-63	Depot code change	8J
06/05/73	Depot code change	AN
11/05/86	Transferred to	NH (Newton Heath)
10/05/87	Transferred to	CF (Cardiff Canton)
26/05/87	Transferred to	LE (Swansea Landore)
01/12/87	Withdrawn from	LE (Swansea Landore)	- Llandelio flood

Modifications

circa early 1975 - AWS fitted
Sep-87 - Headlamp fitted

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 12/08/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

52037 was involved in the following incident:

19/10/87 - Glanrhyd Bridge, WR

Collision involving Class 108 / Bridge

Info from Bill Read

Class 108 ran onto a bridge which had previously collapsed. M51910 + M52037, 4 persons drowned. Severe flooding had caused an already-weakened support pier to collapse.

Disposal

Scrapped by Goldpawn Limited, on location at Pantyfinnon

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51922	52037		As delivered to 26A - 9th July 1960
	51933	52037		Noted 29/08/1974 - at Liverpool Lime Street¹
AN276	51933	52037		Noted 04/09/74 - in Liverpool Lime Street, set number only displayed on 51933²
	51933	52037		Noted 04/09/74 - on Allerton depot²
	51926	52037		Noted 11/01/75 - with 51928 + 52049 at Wigan
	50627	52037		Noted 05/01/77 - in Liverpool Lime Street³
	51925	52037		Noted 26/08/1977 - 16.06 Garswood - Lime Street.⁴
	51929	52037		Noted 31/10/80 - on Longsight depot
	51922	52037		Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Picc⁴
	51931	52037		Noted circa 12/1982⁴
	50934	52037		Noted circa 01/1983⁴
	53943	52037		Noted circa 10/1983⁴
	51924	52037		Formation change - NH - 2w/e 14/05/86
	51931	59526	52037	Listed at Newton Heath - Summer 1986
	51931	59526	52037	Noted 06/02/1987⁴
S950	52037			Listed at LE - Aug-87
S953	51910	52037		Listed at LE - Oct-87 - Headlight fitted

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

Images:

31st December 1980

M52037 (paired with M51926) seen at Longsight on the 31st October 1980. Malcolm Clements.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 10th August 1979

Taken with a long-lens, a Derby Class 108 two-car DMU formed of cars M51925 & M52037 was approaching Bamber Bridge with a Colne to Preston service on August 10th 1979. At the time the stone built Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway waiting room was still standing on the eastbound platform, along with the subway buildings adjacent to the level crossing. The 108 had just passed under what was a historic bridge. The brick built structure was the first in the UK that took a Motorway over a railway line, the M6 Preston By-pass opening for business in December 1958 and was the first stretch of motorway in Britain. The bridge was enlarged and altered when the M6 was widened in the late 1990's. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 31st December 1980

M51926 (with M52037 behind) faces another Class 108 painted in refurbished livery at Longsight on the 31st December 1980. Malcolm Clements.

Date: 17th October 1987

Set number: S953

Class 108 unit S953 taken at Swansea Landore on the afternoon of Sunday 17th October 1987, with DMBS 51910 closest, 52037 behind. Nigel Curtis.

Date: 24th April 1988

Set number: S953

After being involved in an Incident near Llandeilo on the 18th October 1987, in which, whilst working the 0525 Swansea - Shrewsbury it became derailed on a damaged bridge and dropped into the river below. Landore allocated W51910 a DMBS from set S953 awaits cutting up at Pantyfynnon Sdgs. A fate that has already befell Its partner W52037. 24th April 1988. Nigel Mack.

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