Vehicle 50043 / 53043

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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

08/03/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
10/05/87	Stored U.	LN (Lincoln)
29/06/88	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50043 - original number
53043 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 17/02/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50043	56043							As delivered to 40A - 8th March 1957
	50043	56043							Noted 11/04/67 - at Sheffield Midland1
	50043	56043							Noted 09/08/67 - at Hull1
	50043	56034							Noted May 1968
	50043	56047							Noted 01/04/69 - at Sheffield Midland1
	50043	56047							Noted 01/04/69 - in Sheffield Midland1
	50043	56044							Noted 15/06/74 - at Doncaster1
	50043	56044							Noted 04/09/74 - in Sheffield Midland2
	50043	56007							Noted 10/09/75 - at Brough1
	50043	56007							Noted 13/09/1975 - at Cleethorpes 3
	50043	56027							Noted 10/09/76 - in Sheffield Midland2
	50043	56027							Noted 02/12/76 - at Cambridge2
	50043	56027							Noted 22/07/77 - on 2E84 1947 Derby-Lincoln St Marks
	50043	56007							Noted 30/03/1980 - 8 car 114 noted working Louth-York and return 50009-56030+56014-50019+56007-50043+50012-56021 [car 56021 assumed]
	50043	56021							Noted circa 04/19824
	50043	56003							Noted circa 02/19834
	53043	54003							Noted circa 11/19834
	53043	54043							Noted circa 05/19844
	53043	54007							Noted circa 05/19864
	53043	54007							Noted 19th August 1986
	53043	54007							Noted 29/09/19864

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

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24th February 1979

A Class 114 with oval-buffered DMBS E50043 closest at Sheffield on 24 February 1979. Stuart Mackay Collection.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 30th July 1977

50037 56037 56027 50043 56024 50010 arriving at Retford. Phil Bidwell.

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Date: 30th July 1977

50037+56037+56027+50043+56024+50010 arriving at Retford low level. Phil Bidwell.

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Date: 1984

A trio of DMUs outside Doncaster Works in 1984; a Class 111, 101 (or another 111?) and a 114 (which has E53043 closest). John Law.