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Vehicle 50449 / 53449


Class 104

Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30293
Diagram: 556

Allocations

w/e 05/10/57 New to 9D (Buxton)
Feb-58 Transferred to 5D (Cockshute)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 2H (Monument Lane)
4w/e 05/11/66 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
May-73Depot code changeDY
13/09/81 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
10/06/84 Transferred to BX (Buxton)
09/07/84 Withdrawn from BX (Buxton)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50449 - original number
53449 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50449 59157 50501 As delivered to 9D - w/e 05/10/57
50449 59157 50501 Noted 3rd November 1957
50449 59157 50501 Noted 4th April 1958
50449 59142 50787 Noted 17/08/68 - at Peterborough1
EP476 50449 59157 50788 Noted Apr-69
50449 59157 50801 Noted 14/04/69 - in Derby2
50449 59165 50498 Noted 30/05/70 - at Peterborough2
50449 59152 50503 Noted 02/10/1971 - at Birmingham New Street3
50449 59155 50503 Noted 19/05/72 - at Crewe2
50449 59155 50503 Noted 18/08/1972 - at Derby4
50449 59153 50503 Noted 03/11/72 - at Crewe2
50449 59156 50496 Noted 31/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street3
50449 59153 50502 Noted 05/03/1976 - at Loughborough4
50449 59135 50502 Noted 18/06/77 - on 2E84 1320 Crewe-Lincoln St Marks with 50450 + 59156 + 50503
50449 59155 50502 Noted 23/07/77 - on 2E85 0645 Derby-Lincoln St Marks with 51136 + 59528 + 51149
50449 59151 50503 Noted 19/05/79
NH135 50449 50503 Noted circa 05/19825
NH135 50449 50503 Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Victoria5
50449 50503 Noted circa 12/19825
50449 59389 52060 Noted 19/01/19835
50449 50490 Noted circa 03/19835
53449 59230 53522 Noted circa 08/19835
BX488 53449 59260 53522 Noted 23/12/1983 - at Manchester Picc5

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

Images:

Class 104 DMU at Milnewton

May 1958

M50449 leads this three-car BRCW set seen north of Milnewton in May 1958. Michael Mensing.

Class 104 DMU at Kirkham North Junction

2nd August 1980

A view along the District Civil Engineers sidings at Kirkham North Junction through the cast-iron span of bridge 26, as a 2-Car Class 104 DMU formed of cars M50449 & M50535 comes off the Ribby Curve and the end of the Coast Line with the 12.01 Blackpool South to Kirkham & Wesham on August 2nd 1980. These were the days when the core daytime service on the Blackpool South line ran to and from Kirkham only, utilising a reversing siding at the Preston end of Kirkham station. On weekday mornings a through service ran to Manchester Victoria and a corresponding return service ran in the evening, the unit stabling overnight at Blackpool South, the route then was still double track and South station had two platform roads. In the 1970's the through Manchester train was often formed of a Class 124 Transpennine DMU set. Martyn Hilbert.