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Vehicle 52083


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: 30692
Diagram: 563

Allocations

20/01/62 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
15/03/87 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 04/02/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52073 59815 52083 As delivered to 26A - 20th January 1962
52083 59815 52073 Noted 05/08/66 - at Bradford Exchange with 50493 + 59149 + 504411
52073 59815 52083 Noted Autumn 1966 - at Brough on 07:56 Hull - Manchester Exchange1
52073 59815 52083 Noted 01/06/67 - at Leeds City1
52073 59808 52083 Noted 19/08/70 - at Leeds1
52073 59707 52083 Noted 01/09/72 - in Liverpool Exchange1
52073 59698 52083 Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1
52073 59817 52083 Noted 02/09/73 - in Sheffield Midland2
52073 59707 52083 Noted 12/03/76 - at Cambridge2
51814 59703 52083 Noted 10/11/79
52072 59702 52083 Noted circa 10/19823
52068 59697 52083 Noted circa 08/19833
51814 52083 Noted 16/11/1983 - at Sheffield3
52073 59697 52083 Noted circa 01/19843
51814 59382 52083 Noted 11/01/86 - on 15:30 Blackpool South - Preston service4
51814 59382 52083 Noted 07/10/19863
51814 52083 Noted 22/07/87

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Martin Baumann

Images:

Class 110 DMU at Sheffield

late 1960s

A Class 110 set at Sheffield, with 52083 closest. Undated, but as the other two vehicles in the set and the Met-Camm alongside are in blue this was probably taken in the late 1960s. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 110 DMU at Newton Heath

1st April 1975

A Calder Valley Class 110 DMU awaits its next duty at Newton Heath depot near Manchester on April 1st, 1975. From the front are carriage numbers 52083, 59707 and 52073. Suthen Softy.

Class 110 DMU at Bradford Hammerton Street

10th November 1979

Stabled in what can rather loosely be described as a 'shed' 'Calder Valley' BRCW Class 110 DMU Nos. E52083-E59703-E51814 inside the roofless depot at Bradford Hammerton Street on 10th November 1979. The Class 110 diesel multiple units were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company in conjunction with the Drewry Car Co. to operate services on the former Lancashire and Yorkshire main line, and spent their entire careers based around this same area. This earned them the name of the 'Calder Valley' sets. They were an updated version of the Class 104, with a revised cab design and raised bodyside window frames. Of the depot itself, the former Hammerton Street shed in Bradford closed to steam in 1958 to concentrate on DMU and diesel shunter maintenance and finally closed in 1984 when the remaining class 110 units allocated there were transferred to Neville Hill depot in Leeds. Gordon Edgar.

Class 110 DMU at Darlington

23rd July 1985

Class 110 E52083 + E51814 with a Saltburn - Darlington service at Darlington on July 23, 1985. John Carter.

Class 110 DMU at Blackpool South

11th January 1986

51814-59382-52083 Blackpool South 11.01.1986 1530 to Preston. 52083 at rear nearest camera Martin Baumann.

Class 110 DMU at Snailwell

7th February 1988

E52083 seen from the rear with E54374 part on the right at Snailwell on 7th February 1988. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa December 1957

An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative DZ184) showing a new three-car Rolls-Royce powered set E50273 + E59103 + E52083 to the east of Aldridge station, looking west, circa December 1957. Metropolitan Cammell.

DMU

Date: 17th May 1980

08525 rescues failed E52083 + E59711 + E52072 seen at Holgate, York on 17/05/1980. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 22nd July 1985

A Class 110 seen at Newcastle on 22/07/1985. Whilst this Yorkshire-based class might have made occasional visits to Newcastle as arrivals from York, this image shows E51814 + E52083 awaiting departure with the 18:35 Newcastle - Sunderland Graeme Phillips Collection.