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Vehicle 50967 / 53967

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: 30465
Diagram: 543

Allocations

13/06/59	New to	24F (Fleetwood)
w/e 03/06/61	Transferred to	6A (Chester)
w/e 07/01/67	Transferred to	9A (Longsight)
2w/e 11/05/68	Transferred to	10E (Accrington)
w/e 07/02/70	Transferred to	12A (Carlisle Kingmoor)
w/e 07/11/70	Transferred to	10E (Accrington)
Oct-72	Transferred to	9D (Newton Heath)
May-73	Depot code change	NH
Jan-81	Transferred to	KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)
15/05/88	Transferred to	CH (Chester)
19/06/88	Withdrawn from	CH (Chester)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50967 - original number
53967 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

50967 was involved in the following incident:

05/02/88 - Carnforth Up Furness line at Bottom End Yard

Collision involving Class 108 / Wagon

Info from Andrew Pilkington

The Class 108 DMU hit an engineers wagon. More Details.

Disposal

Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50967	56250	As delivered to 24F - 13th June 1959
	50967	56232	Noted 01/01/68 - in Manchester Piccadilly¹
	50967	56250	Transfer to 12A - w/e 07/02/70
	50967	56250	Noted 05/09/73 - at Preston²
	50967	56250	Noted 17/08/77 - at Windermere with M50776 + M50809
	50967	56250	Noted circa 08/1981³
	50967	56250	Noted 01/06/82 - on 15:38 Carlisle to Barrow
	53967	54250	Noted 29/03/1984 - on Kirkham - Blackpool Soute service³
	53967	54250	Listed at KD - 01/01/85
	53967	54250	Listed at Carlisle Kingmoor - Summer 1986
	53967	54250	Noted circa 11/1986³
	53967	54250	Noted 18/04/1987 - Barrow connection for BR Mystery Excursion (Carlisle-Great Yarmouth)
	53967	54250	Noted 06/06/1987 - Barrow connection from BR Inverness-Preston excursion
	53967	54250	Listed at KD - circa Jan-88
CH277	53967	54350	Listed at CH - May-88

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

Images:

11th August 1976

M50967 has just arrived at Blackpool South with the 13.22 from Kirkham on 11 August 1976. The passenger doors have window bars, probably from its time allocated to Carlisle Kingmoor in 1970. Tom Burnham.

24th February 1979

British Rail Class 108 Derby Lightweight DMU 50967 + 56250, approaching St. Annes-on-the-Sea. The DMU was working a Blackpool South - Kirkham train, Saturday 24 February 1979 The photograph is taken from St. Annes signal box, looking north. Ian 10B.

19th April 1980

Sunlight & shade and with the former Furness Railway platform canopies in faded/worn BR maroon & cream, a two-car Class 108 DMU formed of cars M50967 & M56250 was stood at Ulverston with a Lancaster to Barrow-In-Furness service on the evening of April 19th 1980. Martyn Hilbert.

1st June 1982

A Class 108 DMU formed of recently repainted M50967 + M56250 await to depart from Carlisle with the 15:38 to Barrow on June 1st, 1982. 86 320 is in the background. John Carter.

Class 108 DMU at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard

1988

53967 and 54250 (grounded) at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. They had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year. Andrew Pilkington.

1988

53967 with a badly damaged underframe components at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. it had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year. Andrew Pilkington.

1988

53967 at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. It has sustained considerable damage to the underframe components and bogies after colliding with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year. Records show it would be transferred from Kingmoor to Chester in May 1988 where it spent a month before withdrawal. Did it reach there? It did reach Doncaster Works, possibly with a view to repairing for Chester but found to be uneconomical. Andrew Pilkington.

1988

Damage to 53967 at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. It and 54250 had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year, this is the No 1 bogie (cab end), the buckling suggests this would have been the rearmost (fourth) bogie in the direction of travel, yet still collided with sufficient force to cause considerable damage to the steel bogie frame. Andrew Pilkington.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 17th August 1977

Windermere on the 17th August 1977. The unit, M50776 + M50809 + M50967 + M56250 still has 'Barrow' on the blinds. Robert Frise.

Date: 14th October 1978

With the former East Lancashire entrance building in Butler Street on the skyline, a pair of two-car Carlisle Kingmoor allocated Class 108's were stood at the North end of platform 5 at Preston on October 14th 1978. The nearest set was formed of Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) M56250 coupled with Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50967. The units had bars on the droplights due to limited clearances on the Cumbrian Coast line between Maryport and Carlisle. On February 5th 1988, M56250 was involved in a collision at Carnforth with an engineers wagon, and it ended its days grounded at Carnforth Midland Bottom End Yard until it was scrapped on site. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 5th May 1984

A two-car Class 108 DMU with Driving Trailer 54250 leading (and presumably with DMBS 53967), was accelerating away from Kirkham North Junction on the last lap of its 12 mile journey along the Coast Line with the 10.30 Blackpool South to Kirkham service on May 5th 1984. These were the days when the Coast Line via Lytham was still double track and other than a through working to Manchester Victoria on a Weekday morning and a corresponding return service in an evening, the core service ran between Blackpool South & Kirkham only, with the units utilising the reversing siding located beyond the East end of the platform at Kirkham station. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 23rd March 1987

M54250 + M53967 leads another Class 108 departing from Appleby on March 23, 1987. John Carter.

Date: 12th July 1987

DTS(L) M54250 (presumably paired with DMBS 53967) leads a four-car formation passing Settle Junction at 4:07pm with a service bound for Carlisle, 12/7/87. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Date: 1988

54250 grounded at Carnforth Midland Bottom End yard in 1988. It, and 53967 to the right, had collided with an engineers wagon on the Up Furness earlier in the year. Andrew Pilkington.

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