Vehicle 56166
Class 103
Builder: Park Royal
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30287
Diagram: 645
Allocations
The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 50411 during the unknown period are:
| w/e 06/09/58 | New to | 3C (Ryecroft) | |
| 4w/e 27/12/58 | Transferred to | 1C (Watford) | |
| 3w/e 31/10/64 | Transferred to | 1E (Bletchley) | |
| 4w/e 02/01/65 | Transferred to | 1C (Watford) | |
| 3w/e 31/01/65 | Transferred to | 2G (Ryecroft) | |
| w/e 07/01/67 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) |
Then the allocations for 56166 are:
| 3w/e 31/10/70 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| 01/05/72 | Withdrawn from | 81D (Reading) |
Disposal
Scrapped by Bird Group, Long Marston
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50411 | 56166 | As delivered to 3C - September 1958 | |||||||
| 50411 | 56166 | Transfer to 1E - 3w/e 31/10/64 | |||||||
| 50409 | 56166 | Noted 22/08/69 - at Crewe1 | |||||||
| 50411 | 56166 | Transfer to 81D - 3w/e 31/10/70 - from Chester |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
Images:
1st September 1962
A Park Royal DMU with M56166 closest in Belmont station on the Stanmore branch, 1 September 1962. John Cosford.
1st September 1962
A Park Royal DMU (M56166 closest) in Harrow & Wealdstone station with the branch train to Belmont on the Stanmore branch, 1 September 1962. Passenger services to Stanmore had been withdrawn in 1952 and freight services in 1964. Belmont station was closed on 5th October 1964. John Cosford.
2nd September 1962
The St. Albans Abbey branch train in Platform 10 at Watford Junction with driving trailer M56166 (Park Royal/1957) nearest the camera. 2 September 1962. John Cosford.
circa 1964
A Park Royal DMU in Belmont station circa 1964, the last remains of the former LNWR Stanmore Village branch. It still carries 3C on the buffer beams (Ryecroft depot) and has had the electrification flashes removed. The missing paint around the left windscreen suggests this is M56166. Image by Tony Martens. John Law Collection.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 22nd April 1971
A Class 103 Park Royal DMU at Windsor & Eton Central station on 22 April 1971. Reading had four of these for a short spell, 50411-4 with 56166-9. Tom Burnham.