Vehicle 50289 / 53289 / 78963
Class 111
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30338
Diagram: 524
Allocations
| 30/01/58 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
| w/e 30/04/67 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
| 16/08/87 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50289 - original number
53289 - from Jul-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
78963 - from 24/02/85 (single engine conversion)
Modifications
24/02/85 - Single engine conversion
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated 04/05/1979 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50289 | 59109 | 50279 | As delivered to 56G - 30th January 1958 | ||||||
| 50289 | 59101 | 50274 | Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1 | ||||||
| 50289 | 59048 | 50279 | Noted 27/07/68 - in Leeds City1 | ||||||
| 50289 | 59107 | 50276 | Noted 08/09/73 - at York2 | ||||||
| 50289 | 59107 | 50276 | Noted 19/04/74 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
| 50289 | 59107 | 50280 | Noted 05/03/76 - at Cambridge2 | ||||||
| 50289 | 59107 | 50276 | Noted 31/03/1976 - at York3 | ||||||
| 50289 | 59107 | 50276 | Noted 29/04/76 - at Cambridge2 | ||||||
| 50289 | 59531 | 51559 | Noted 09/08/79 - at Carnforth | ||||||
| 50289 | 59531 | 51559 | Noted circa 10/19794 | ||||||
| 50289 | 51559 | Noted circa 10/19824 | |||||||
| 53289 | 53272 | Listed at NL - 01/01/85 | |||||||
| 78963 | 78713 | Noted circa 06/19854 | |||||||
| 78963 | 78721 | Noted circa 11/19864 | |||||||
| 78963 | 78707 | Noted 01/12/19864 | |||||||
| 78963 | 78707 | Noted 28th December 1986 | |||||||
| 78963 | 78713 | Noted 24/04/1987 - at Leeds5 | |||||||
| 78963 | 78721 | Noted 03/11/19874 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton
Images:
29th April 1967
E50289 leading 1M37 Harrogate to Liverpool Exchange at Wortley North on 29th April 1967. This was the last train but one to call at Leeds Central station, the last was 2B64 Bradford Exchange to Harrogate 15mins later. Behind the Rolls-Royce powered Met-Camm three-car is a BRC&W (later Class 110) three-car with a Met-Camm centre car, then a two-car Met-Camm. Keith Long.
April 1980
A refurbished three-car Class 111 DMU with DMBS E50289 closest is seen at Long Preston with a Morecambe service in April 1980. Stuart Mackay Collection.
28th February 1987
E78963 + E78709 with a Southport - York service departing from Leeds on February 28, 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 9th August 1979
Carnforth, the 9th August 1979. On train on the left is formed E50035 + E56008 + E50289 + E59531 + E51559 (Class 114 & 101/111). On the right is M56475 + M50784 + M56129 + M50374. Robert Frise.
Date: 7th October 1986
E78721 + E78963 depart Leeds with a service for Goole on the 7th October 1986. Kevin Law.