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Vehicle 51567 / 977854


Class 108

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30461
Diagram: 609

Allocations

19/12/59 New to 6G (Llandudno Junction)
w/e 02/01/60 Transferred to 6D (Chester Northgate)
Jan-60 Transferred to 6A (Chester) - Northgate closed
06/05/73Depot code changeCH
25/05/83 On loan to HA (Haymarket)
08/07/83 Ex-loan back to CH (Chester)
circa 1984 Transferred to LO (Longsight)
12/05/85 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
20/09/87 Transferred to LE (Swansea Landore)
15/03/92 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton) PCFX
25/09/92 Transferred to LO (Longsight) RCLO
08/02/93 To departmental stock
Jan-94 Withdrawn

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

51567 - original number
977854 - from Feb-93 (departmental stock)

Department Use as ADB977854

Route Learner From 2/93 to 1/94. Carried set number LO911

Modifications

circa Dec-72 - AWS fitted
Sep-87 - Headlamp fitted

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 17/09/1982 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Preserved - more details.

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50930 51567 As delivered to 6G - 19th December 1959
50926 51567 Noted 22/10/1980 - At Chester Station1
50926 51567 Noted circa 03/19812
50926 51567 Noted 21/10/82 - on Chester depot
53926 59060 51567 Noted 04/07/83 - at Monktonhall Junction3
53926 51567 Noted circa 08/19832
53926 51567 Noted circa 01/19842
53926 51567 Listed at LO - 01/01/85
53926 51567 Listed at Newton Heath - Summer 1986
53942 51567 Listed at NH - 10/05/87
S947 53942 51567 Formed at LE circa 10/87
S947 53942 51567 Listed at LE - Oct-87 - Headlight fitted
S947 53942 59039 51567 Formation change - LE - 2w/e 13/03/88 - 59039 added (ex-S950)
S947 53942 59050 51567 Listed at LE - 15/05/89
S947 53942 59050 51567 Noted circa 07/19892
S947 53942 59050 51567 Noted circa 09/19892
S947 53942 51567 Noted 27/12/90 - at Crewe4
spare 51567 Listed at LE - Jul-91
spare 51567 Listed at LE - Aug-91
S947 53621 51567 Listed at LE - Dec-91
S947 53627 51567 Noted circa 09/19922
C947 53627 51567 Listed at CF - 24/09/92
LO615 53627 51567 Listed at LO - November 1992
53627 51567 Noted 03/12/92 - on 11:47 Marple - Manchester Piccadilly via Bredbury5
LO615 53627 51567 Listed at LO - 10/12/92

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

Images:

Class 108 DMU at Dunfermline

7th June 1983

Set number: 358

M51567, Sc59060 & M53926 at Dunfermline, Tuesday 7th June 1983, about to depart with the 19:47 Edinburgh Waverley – Cowdenbeath service. I considered this unusual during a visit to Scotland in June 1983, a 3 car DMU comprising two Class 108 motor cars (on loan from Chester) sandwiching a Metro Cammell trailer. What made it unusual was the centrally mounted headlamp on both motor cars which indicated that they had come from those sets so equipped to work the Central Wales Line. At this time the station nameboards simply read “Dunfermline” but the platform lamps confusingly still showed the station’s former name of “Dunfermline Lower”. Nowadays the station is known as “Dunfermline Town”. The local council, having devoted considerable energy in changing every road sign from “Town Centre” to “City Centre”, requested that the station be renamed “Dunfermline City”, which was abandoned as the cost pr Brian McDevitt.

Class 108 DMU at Crewe

20th October 1990

Set number: S947

I have very few photographs taken at Crewe and this is certainly my only after-dark shot from there. It shows class 108 set S947 (51567 + 53621) leading another unrecorded Class 101 set in platform 7 waiting to leave with an evening train to Shrewsbury on 20 October 1990. My notes say that it was a 15 second exposure on medium format 400asa TRI-X film at an aperture of f5.6 with the camera resting on my camera box. I had been out and about on the Network North-West day and hadn't want to lumber myself with the additional weight of my heavy tripod. Peter Tandy.

Class 108 DMU at Crewe

2nd January 1992

Set number: S947

Class 108 set S947 (51567 + 53621) waiting at Crewe to form a Crewe-Swansea service on 2nd January 1992. Standing next to Class 158, 158758. David Slack.

Class 108 DMU at Severn Beach

29th July 1992

Set number: S947

A two-car Class 108 DMU at Severn Beach on 29 July 1992. Carrying set S947 the vehicle closest is presumably 51567, transferred from Swansea to Cardiff in March of that year, in September it would move to its final allocation of Longsight. Alan Grange.

Class 108 DMU at Chester depot

24th January 1993

Set number: LO615

Class 108 DMU set LO615 on Chester depot on 24 January 1993. Closest is DMSL 51567, behind is DMBS 53627, both would be transferred to departmental stock as a route learning unit two weeks later. John Law.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 21st October 1982

Class 108 Derby 2-car DMU 50926 + 51567 on Chester depot 21-10-82. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

DMU

Date: 7th June 1983

Set number: 358

This shot of Set 358 was taken at Inverkeithing on the morning of Tuesday 7th June 1983. M53926 (with SC59060 + M51567) sets off on the climb to the Forth Bridge with the 08:38 Kirkcaldy – Edinburgh Waverley service. Brian McDevitt.

DMU

Date: 8th June 1983

Set number: 358

M53926, Sc59060 & M51567 at Kirkcaldy, Wednesday 8th June 1983 after working the 14:42 service from Edinburgh to Kirkcaldy and was returning to Edinburgh with the 15:38 service from Kirkcaldy. Brian McDevitt.

DMU

Date: circa 1988

Set number: S947

Class 108 S947 (presumably 53942 + 51567) is seen at Knighton, with Crewe on the blinds. Circa 1988. Tom Clift.

DMU

Date: 2nd January 1988

Set number: S947

Seen at Swansea on 2 January 1988 are Class 108s S947 (53942 + 51567) on the 15:22 to Llandeilo and S941 (51562 + 51922) on the 14:05 to Milford Haven. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 1989

Set number: S947

Set S947 arrives at Gowerton in 1989. The first two vehicles are presumably 53942 and Met-Camm trailer brake 59050, 51567 should be on the rear. John Law.

DMU

Date: 24th January 1993

Set number: LO615

Class 108 DMU set LO615 on Chester depot on 24 January 1993. Closest is DMBS 53627, behind is DMSL 51567, both would be transferred to departmental stock as a route learning unit two weeks later. John Law.