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Vehicle 56397 / 54397


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30468
Diagram: 630

Allocations

w/e 14/06/58 New to 62B (Dundee)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
May-68 Transferred to 62B (Dundee)
May-73Depot code changeDE
29/05/77 Transferred to GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
11/05/86 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
28/09/86 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill)

Notes

12th June 1958 - Seen in 8-car set passing through Preston en route from Metro-Cammell to Cowlairs.

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56397 - original number
54397 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 28/07/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51239 56397 Noted 5th June 1958
51239 56397 Noted 12th June 1958 - en route from Saltley to Cowlairs
51239 56397 As delivered to 62B - June 1958
51239 56397 Noted 7th July 1958 - on Aberdeen - Ballater workings
51239 56397 Transfer to 66C - 3w/e 30/04/66
51241 56397 Noted 24/07/1973 - at Edinburgh Waverley1
51796 56397 Noted 06/09/76 - at Dundee2
50294 56397 Noted circa 03/19793
50294 56397 Noted 22/03/80 - on a Newcastle - Middlesbrough service
50229 56397 Noted 16/01/19823
51252 56397 Noted circa 02/19833
53256 54397 Noted circa 03/19853
51204 54397 Noted circa 02/19863

Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 22nd March 1980

E50294 + E56397 with a Newcastle - Middlesbrough service at North Shore, Stockton, on March 22, 1980. Now only a plain up and down line, the box and semaphores long gone. John Carter.