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Vehicle 52071


Class 110

Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30691
Diagram: 564

Allocations

06/01/62 New to 26A (Newton Heath)
Sep-63Depot code change9D
2w/e 06/05/67 On loan to 56G (Hammerton Street)
2w/e 03/06/67 Transferred to 56G (Hammerton Street)
Dec-67Depot code change55F
May-73Depot code changeHS
13/05/84 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill) - Hammerton Street closed
09/03/90 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill) PXXZ

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 14/01/1983 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Preserved - more details.

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52071 59813 52081 As delivered to 26A - 6th January 1962
52081 59813 52071 Noted 20/12/66 - at Manchester1
52071 59813 52081 Noted 01/06/67 - at Leeds City1
52071 59810 52081 Noted 02/01/71
52071 59700 52085 Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster2
52071 59698 52076 Noted 29/08/74 - at York3
52071 59709 52082 Noted circa 02/19834
52071 59572 52082 Noted circa 06/19834
52071 59701 51834 Noted circa 10/19834
51834 52071 Noted 07/01/19844
52071 52082 Noted circa 09/19864
52071 52082 Noted 06/10/19864
52071 52082 Noted circa 07/19874
52071 52082 Noted 22/11/87
52071 52082 Listed at NL - early Apr-88
52071 52082 Noted 27/07/88 - on 13:55 Lincoln-Sheffield
52071 52082 Noted 08/08/88 - on 21:38 Sheffield-Retford
52071 52082 Noted 26/08/88 - on 22:22 Lincoln-Sheffield
52071 52082 Noted 10/09/88 - on 17:28 Sheffield-Lincoln
414 52071 52082 Listed at NL - Feb-89
52071 52082 Noted 06/02/89 - on 11:58 Leeds - Wakefield5
NL563 51463 59250 52071 Listed at NL - 05/09/89 - 52071 "currently replaced by 52082"
52071 51829 Noted circa 12/19894

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

Images:

Class 110 DMU at Sheffield

Unknown date

Class 110 DMBC in Sheffield, date unknown. Behind is centre car 59814. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 110 DMU at Huddersfield

31st July 1973

A Class 110 set with E52071 closest at Huddersfield on 31/7/73. David Mant.

Class 110 DMU at Manchester Victoria

Unknown date

E52071 at the head of a BRC&W Calder Valley set at Manchester Victoria, circa late 1960s. Graham Clark.

Class 110 DMU at Manchester Victoria

July 1978

Birmingham RC&W Co. 3-car Local Passenger "Calder Valley" dmu (Class 110) with E52071 closest departing Manchester Victoia and passing Manchester (Exchange), 07/78. At the front is a 108/BRC&W hybrid. Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 110 DMU at Hammerton Street depot

22nd April 1979

Many DMUs on Bradford Hammerton Street depot on 22 April 1979 with a Class 110 center stage. The patch above the left cab window suggests this is E52071. Brian Daniels.

Class 110 DMU at Leeds

31st August 1988

Class 110, vehicles 52071 and 52082 at Leeds on 31st August 1988 David Slack.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: unknown

Class 110 centre car E59814, with E52076 on the left, 52071 on the right. At Sheffield, date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 22nd April 1979

The two types of DMUs that were fitted with Rolls-Royce C6 180hp engines - a Class 111 and a Class 110 - on Bradford Hammerton Street depot on 22 April 1979. The patch above the closest cab window on the 110 suggests it is E52071. Another Met-Camm of an unknown type sits inside the shed. Brian Daniels.

DMU

Date: circa 1983

Set number: C708

E52088 in Doncaster Works. Date unknown, it seems to be undergoing the work to remove the headcode boxes which dates it to circa 1983. E52071 is on the left. Paul Redmond.

DMU

Date: 21st July 1988

Lancaster on 21/7/88, with 52082/52071 departing on the 08.38 to Morecambe. Leonard Rogers.