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Vehicle 50610 / 53610


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: 30406
Diagram: 543

Allocations

06/08/58 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
2w/e 30/04/60 Transferred to 55F (Manningham)
2w/e 09/10/65 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
2w/e 12/03/66 Transferred to 67A (Corkerhill)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
14/01/68 On loan to 31A (Cambridge)
28/01/68 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
Nov-68 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
3w/e 31/10/70 Transferred to 52J (South Gosforth)
May-73Depot code changeGF
w/e 21/08/77 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
13/05/84 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
11/05/86 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
15/03/87 Stored U.
12/04/87 Reinstated BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
14/06/87 Stored U. BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) - at Dairycoates
May-88 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) - official date 09/09/88.

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50610 - original number
53610 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

07/03/75 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 21/10/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50610 56201 As delivered to 56G - 6th August 1958
50610 56201 Transfer to 55F - 2w/e 30/04/60
50610 56201 Transfer to 50C - 2w/e 09/10/65
50610 56201 Transfer to 67A - 2w/e 12/03/66
50610 56201 Transfer to 64H - 3w/e 30/04/66
50610 56201 Transfer to 31A - 28/01/68
50610 56201 Transfer to 32A - Nov-68
50610 56201 Transfer to 52J - 3w/e 31/10/70
50610 56201 Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle1
50610 56201 Noted 01/06/1974 - at Carlisle 2
50610 56201 Noted 07/01/75 - on South Gosforth depot3
50610 56201 Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot3
50610 56201 Noted 03/04/76 - in Newcastle Central3
50610 56201 Noted circa 03/19784
50610 56201 Noted 14/06/1978 - at Sheffield 2
53610 54201 Noted circa 10/19834
53610 54199 Noted 27/07/86
53610 54208 Noted 25/10/19864
53610 54198 Noted circa 12/19864
53610 54190 Noted 24/12/86

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

Images:

Class 108 DMU at Haltwhistle

31st August 1971

Haltwhistle at 11.45 on 31.8.71. A train from Carlisle to Newcastle, led by 50610, runs into the platform on the right. In the branch platform on the left, a two-car 101 (50225/56050) waits to leave for Alston at 12.00. Leonard Rogers.

Class 108 DMU at Kirkham Abbey

27th July 1986

An impressive 10-car DMU rake led by MetroTrain branded 53610 and 54199, followed by a plain blue class 105 pair and three more two-car class 108 sets heads for York at Kirkham Abbey on 27/Jul/1986. Robert Chilton.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 1966

A Derby twin set (later Class 108) in Corstorphine station in 1966. Scotland had just two driver trailer sets at this time, 50610 + 56201 and 50611 + 56202. Walter Burt.

DMU

Date: circa 1968

A Derby Lightweight (Blue Square) DMU at St Ives (Huntingdonshire) after arriving from Cambridge into the platform which used to be for the line to Huntingdon and Kettering circa 1968. Behind the building are the platforms formerly used for the March line. The station was largely intact at this time, but was rationalised a few months later. Cambridge depot only ever had one DMU allocated of this type, 56201 + 50610 arriving from the Scottish Region in January 1968 which explains the yellow first class stripe on the DTCL. They moved to Norwich depot in November 1968. Tom Burnham.

DMU

Date: 25th June 1982

Class 124 E51956 beside Class 108 E50610 at Leeds on June 25, 1982. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 24th December 1986

A Derby built class 108 dmu comprising of cars 54190 & 53610, are sat in the centre road at Sheffield awaiting their next turn of duty, on Christmas eve 1986. Andrew J Crowther.