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Vehicle 50583


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: 30298
Diagram: 559

Allocations

04/12/58 New to 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens)
Jan-60Depot code change50C
May-73Depot code changeBG
w/e 18/10/75 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
w/e 25/05/80 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
16/05/82 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50562 59208 59229 50583 As delivered to 53B - 4th December 1958
50580 59202 59223 50583 Noted 03/09/1971 - at York1
50583 59226 59207 50587 Noted 17/08/1973 - at Birmingham New Street 2
50562 59227 50583 Noted 03/01/75 - in Leeds City3
50561 59227 59200 50583 Noted 06/10/75 - at Brough4
84 50561 59227 50583 Noted 24/10/75 - on Norwich depot3
84 50561 59227 50583 Noted 08/01/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
86 50583 59221 50587 Noted 02/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
88 50581 59218 50583 Noted 12/07/77 - at Bury St Edmunds3
82 50562 59223 50583 Noted 09/03/78 - at Bury St Edmunds3
80 50583 59218 50585 Noted 13/08/78 - on Norwich depot3
82 50583 59223 50562 Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
83 50551 59227 50583 Noted 04/01/79 - at Norwich3
85 50561 59226 50583 Noted 04/08/79
50579 59225 50583 Noted 24/09/79
86 50583 59221 50590 Noted 28/03/80
50557 59221 50583 Transfer to NL - w/e 25/05/80
50553 59243 50583 Noted 07/04/81

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

Images:

Class 104 DMU at Norwich MPD

23rd June 1978

Recently returned from Overhaul and yet to receive a Norwich MPD Set allocation number Class 104 DMCL E50583 rests on it's home depot ahead of Class 03 03103. By Autumn 1978 she was part of Set No.82 at Norwich until transferring to Leeds, Neville Hill MPD in mid 1980 from where she was withdrawn in May 1982. She would return to East Anglia however as she was scrapped at the Mayer Newman Yard in Snailwell during July 1983. Bob Woolnough.

Class 104 DMU at Brandon

24th September 1979

Ex-works Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. class 104 DMU unit Nos.E50583-E59225-E50579 forming the 10:10 service from Ely to Norwich getting underway from Brandon station, Suffolk, on 24th September 1979. Gordon Edgar.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 28th March 1980

Set number: 86

This is set 86 comprising E50590, E59221 and at the rear out of frame E50583. The train is the 17.23 Peterborough - Norwich of Friday 28th March 1980 which was pretty much an all stations affair I seem to recall. It is seen arriving at a rather wet March station. Gerard Fletcher.

DMU

Date: 7th April 1981

E50553 leads 59243 and 50583 through Healey Mills on the 7th April 1981. Malcolm Clements.