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Vehicle 50009 / 53009


Class 114

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp / Albion 238hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30209
Diagram: 516

Allocations

20/11/56 New to 40A (Lincoln)
May 1973Depot code changeLN
10/05/87 Stored U. LN (Lincoln)
29/06/88 Withdrawn from LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50009 - original number
53009 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

15/12/79 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 21/12/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50009 56009 As delivered to 40A - 20th November 1956
50009 56009 Noted 19th Jul 1959
50009 56006 Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1
50009 56009 Noted May 1968
50009 56042 Noted 01/04/69 - in Sheffield Midland1
50009 56043 Noted 02/05/70 - at Sheffield1
50009 56009 Noted 07/04/1972 - Observed departing Grantham for King's Cross at 20:10
50009 56009 Noted 08/09/72 - at Ipswich2
50009 56009 Noted 17/08/1973 - at Grantham3
50009 56047 Noted 07/07/74 - at Sheffield1
50009 56047 Noted 24/08/74 - on Lincoln depot4
50009 56047 Noted 30/08/1974 - at Sheffield3
50009 56013 Noted 08/01/75 - at Stainforth & Hatfield4
50009 56038 Noted 18/08/76 - on 1808 Grantham-Skegness
50009 56038 Noted 10/09/76 - at Doncaster1
50009 56038 Noted 07/10/76 - at Cambridge4
50009 56038 Noted 20/01/77 - at Cambridge4
50009 56038 Noted 30/03/77 - at Brough1
50009 56038 Noted 29/05/77 - on 0800 Crewe-Manchester Piccadilly
50009 56038 Noted 25/06/77 - on 1248 Sheffield-Leeds
50009 56030 Noted 30/03/1980 - 8 car 114 noted working Louth-York and return 50009-56030+56014-50019+56007-50043+50012-56021 [car 56021 assumed]
50009 56038 Noted circa 10/19825
53009 54028 Noted circa 10/19835
53009 54045 Noted circa 05/19845
53009 54047 Noted circa 01/19865
53009 54047 Noted 19th August 1986
53009 54047 Noted 03/11/19865

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Ipswich Transport Society
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 114 DMU at Louth

22nd April 1970

A Class 114 (possibly 50009 at the front) with a van in tow at Louth on April 22, 1970, with the 13:32 to Peterborough. Photo by P.H.Wells. Nigel Walls.

Class 114 DMU at Worksop

Unknown date

A Class 114 DMU with DMBS E50009 closest (the DTCL is possibly E56008) at Worksop, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

Class 114 DMU at Ely

24th March 1982

50009 with 56008 arriving Ely. Phil Bidwell.

Class 114 DMU at Doncaster Works

16th May 1982

Doncaster works 16th May 1982 Steve Montgomery.

Class 114 DMU at Snailwell

29th January 1989

Class 114 DMBS E53009 at Snailwell on 29 January 1989. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 114 DMU at Snailwell

4th February 1989

Class 114 DMBS E53009 at Snailwell on the 4th February 1989, with a plain blue liveried class 105 on the left number E54443 Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 28th October 1977

A Class 114 DMU (vehicles 50009/56009) at Skegness having arrived as the 08.44 from Nottingham on 28 October 1977. Both of these vehicles were new to 40A Lincoln on 20 November 1956, and ran as a unit for many years. 50009 was withdrawn while still at Lincoln on 29 June 1988, and was scrapped by Mayer Newman, of Snailwell. It's erstwhile partner, 56009, was transferred to Tyseley, and then to Chester, and was withdrawn on 24 May 1991. 56009 was scrapped at MC Metals, Glasgow. Lewis Bevan.

DMU

Date: unknown

A Class 114 DMU with DTCL E56008 closest (the DMBS is possibly E50009) at Worksop, date unknown. Paul Redmond.