Vehicle 56076 / 54076

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Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30262
Diagram: 630

Allocations

20/06/57	New to	54A (Sunderland)
20/06/57	On loan to	9A (Longsight)
4w/e 07/09/57	Ex-loan back to	54A (Sunderland)
3w/e 30/08/58	Transferred to	South Gosforth
4w/e 26/11/60	Transferred to	56G (Hammerton Street)
3w/e 30/09/61	Transferred to	South Gosforth
2w/e 12/01/63	Transferred to	51A (Darlington)
May-73	Depot code change	DN
w/e 05/03/78	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
15/02/87	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56076 - original number
54076 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 24/03/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50224	56076							As delivered to 54A - 20th June 1957
	50224	56076							Transfer to 54A - 4w/e 07/09/1957 - ex-loan LMR
	50222	56076							Transfer to 56G - 4w/e 26/11/60
	50222	56076							Transfer to South Gosforth - 3w/e 30/09/61
	50224	56076							Noted 11/09/65 - at Thornaby1
	51213	56076							Noted 04/09/71 - at Darlington1
	50218	56076							Noted 10/09/72 - at Darlington1
	50221	56076							Noted 07/01/75 - at Darlington2
	50250	56076							Noted 06/09/75 - at Darlington1
	50295	56076							Noted 30/12/75 - at Darlington1
	50255	56076							Noted 07/06/77 - on 14.33 Saltburn – Darlington3
	50136	56076							Noted circa 19784
	50136	56076							Noted 19/06/82 - on Sheffield - Leeds service
	53136	54076							Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds4
	53136	54076							Noted 03/08/83 - at Church Fenton
	53136	54076							Listed at NL - 01/01/85
	53136	54076							Noted 29/05/85 - on Ormskirk to Preston service
	53136	54076							Noted circa 02/19864
	53136	54076							Noted 26/10/19864
	53246	54076							Noted 01/12/19864

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

Images:

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3rd August 1983

A Met-Camm set (E54076 + E53136) at Church Fenton on August 3, 1983. John Carter.

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29th May 1985

Having worked over the Pennines from Leeds to Preston, an Eastern Region 2-Car Class 101 with West Yorkshire Metrotrain branding was used on a fill-in turn from Preston to Ormskirk at tea-time on May 29th 1985. This was a Monday-Friday routine, that saw three different DMU sets working to Ormskirk in the early evening, the services crossing in the loop at Rufford. Having worked to Ormskirk E54076/E 53136 pass over Pages Crossing returning to Preston on the approach to Midge Hall. Martyn Hilbert.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 19th June 1982

E50136 + E56076 on a Sheffield - Leeds service arrives into Barnsley on 1982-06-19. Jumble Lane signalbox in the background. John Carter.

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Date: 29th May 1985

Complete with its West Yorkshire PTE Metrotrain branding, a 2-Car Class 111/101 Met-Camm formed of E53136 & E54076 was working a tea-time out and back Preston to Ormskirk service on May 29th 1985, accelerating away from the single line token exchange at Midge Hall. The unit had worked a Preston to Leeds service and was utilised on the Ormskirk line as a fill-in turn before working back across the Pennines. This was the period when three different DMU sets appeared on Ormskirk services in the early evening in the days when the passing loop at Rufford was utilised to give an intensive service. Martyn Hilbert.