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Vehicle 56111 / 977196


Class 100

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30279
Diagram: 537

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 50356 during the unknown period are:

w/e 05/10/57 New to 9D (Buxton)
Nov-57 Transferred to 5D (Cockshute)
Jan-58 Transferred to 8E (Brunswick)
Apr-58Depot code change27F
Jun-58 Transferred to 3C (Ryecroft)
Jun-60Depot code change21F
Sep-63Depot code change2G
3w/e 31/01/65 Transferred to 2H (Monument Lane)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 2G (Ryecroft)
3w/e 30/06/66 Transferred to 6A (Chester)

Then the allocations for 56111 are:

3w/e 30/03/69 Transferred to 9A (Longsight)
May 1973Depot code changeLO
17/07/83 To departmental stock - as TDB977196
Feb-85 Withdrawn

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56111 - original number
977196 - from Jul-83 (departmental stock)

Department Use as TDB977196

Special Instruction coach MOD Moreton-on-Lugg From 7/83 to 2/85.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50356 56111 As delivered to 9D - w/e 05/10/57
50356 56111 Transfer to 5D - Nov-57
LT308 50538 56111 Listed at Longsight - circa Dec-69
50538 56111 Noted 22/12/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly1
LT299 50356 56111 Listed at 9A - circa Jul-70
50356 56111 Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight1
50356 56111 Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot2
50356 56111 Noted 23/02/76 - at Stalybridge1
50356 56111 Noted 10/04/76 - in Manchester Piccadilly1
50356 56111 Noted Sep-76 - in Manchester Piccadilly1
50356 56111 Noted 04/01/78
50356 56111 Noted 18/02/1979 - at Crewe Station3
LO297 50356 56111 Noted circa 05/19824
LO297 50356 56111 Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Picc4
LO297 50356 56111 Noted circa 09/19824
50356 56111 Noted circa 12/19824
50356 56111 Noted 15/07/1983 - Manchester Picc4
50356 56111 Noted 11/08/1983 - on 16.06 Llandudno - Holyhead with 50358-561134

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Shayne Lewis
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 100 DMU at Longsight depot

18th June 1978

Gloucester Class 100 Driving Trailer Composite M56111 stabled with various other items of rolling stock, including two more redundant Class 100 vehicles, at Longsight TMD on June 18th 1978. After BR use, M56111 became an instruction coach on the Ministry of Defence railway system at Moreton-On-Lugg. It was eventually scrapped in 1985. Alongside is the Longsight Overhead Line Maintenance Train, with two former LMS vintage coaches visible. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 100 DMU at Manchester Piccadilly

Unknown date

A Class 100 DMU with a Cravens alongside in Manchester Piccadilly, date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 100 DMU at Hoole Lane

13th November 1982

Class 100 Gloucester 2-car DMU 56111 + 50356 approaches Hoole Lane, Chester, with a service from Manchester on 13-11-82. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

Class 100 DMU at Crewe

9th October 1983

Class 100 Gloucester RC&W 2-car DMU 56111+50356 in Platform 1a at Crewe 9-10-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 31st August 1976

M50356 (and presumably M56111) arrives at Stalybridge with the 14:30 from Stockport (with a tail lamp at this end? maybe changing platforms?) on 31 August 1976. On the left the 12:13 Scarborough-Liverpool Lime Street departs with refurbished liveried E50169 on the rear. Robert Thomas.

DMU

Date: 8th December 1980

A GRC&W set formed of M50356 + M56111 with a Stockport train at Stalybridge on December 8th, 1980. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 29th September 1983

Class 100 Gloucester 2-car DMU 50356+56111 stabled Chester depot on 27-9-83. My notes say there were three 2-car units of he class on Chester that evening, most of the surviving sets. This one would be withdrawn towards the end of the year. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.