Vehicle 50411
Class 103
Builder: Park Royal
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30286
Diagram: 635
Allocations
| w/e 06/09/58 | New to | 3C (Ryecroft) | |
| 4w/e 27/12/58 | Transferred to | 1C (Watford) | |
| 3w/e 31/10/64 | Transferred to | 1E (Bletchley) | |
| 4w/e 02/01/65 | Transferred to | 1C (Watford) | |
| 3w/e 31/01/65 | Transferred to | 2G (Ryecroft) | |
| w/e 07/01/67 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | |
| 3w/e 31/10/70 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| 01/05/72 | Withdrawn from | 81D (Reading) |
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Norwich
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50411 | 56166 | As delivered to 3C - September 1958 | |||||||
| 50411 | 56166 | Transfer to 1E - 3w/e 31/10/64 | |||||||
| CR207 | 50411 | 56164 | Noted circa Jun-69 | ||||||
| 50411 | 56165 | Noted 15/08/70 - at Chester1 | |||||||
| 50411 | 56166 | Transfer to 81D - 3w/e 31/10/70 - from Chester |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 16th June 1962
In Birmingham New Street on June 16 1962 is a Park Royal and GRC&W set which have arrived on the 3:50pm ex-Rugeley (TV) and will now work the 5.10pm return. Note the 21F shed code on the buffer beam, this was Rycroft depot which had sixteen of the twenty Park Royal sets allocated to it on this date, the other four (50411-4) were at Watford. The DMBS has no whiskers, but the cover for the route indicator is from a vehicle that had whiskers. Michael Mensing.
Date: 22nd April 1971
A Class 103 Park Royal DMU at Windsor & Eton Central station on 22 April 1971. Reading had four of these for a short spell, 50411-4 with 56166-9. Tom Burnham.