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Vehicle 56174


Class 109

Builder: Wickham
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30289
Diagram: 607

Allocations

25/08/58 New to 30A (Stratford)
Nov-58 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
03/09/61 Withdrawn from 31A (Cambridge) - Sold back to Wickhams

Disposal

Sep-61 - Sold back to Wickham who then sold it to the Trinidad Government Railway

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50419 56174 As delivered to 30A - 25th August 1958

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 22nd February 1986

Class 109 Trinidad Wickham Port of Spain 22 February 1986. In the early '80s I worked as a Property Manager for British Airways and was sent to all sorts of exotic places. On a visit to Trinidad I came across these two Wickham half coach front ends welded back to back which had been used as a café in one of the outer suburbs of the capital Port of Spain. Along with some others dumped behind the old railway station downtown I reckon at that time there were enough parts surviving from all four coaches E50415, 50419 and E56170, 56174 exported in late 1961 but I am unable to say which ones were which and they almost certainly won't exist now. A letter from me along with this picture was published in Rail Magazine in issue 337, August 12-25 1998. Alistair Ness.