Vehicle 51556 / 78723

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Class 111

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30509
Diagram: 617

Allocations

29/01/60	New to	56G (Hammerton Street)
May-60	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)
May-73	Depot code change	NL
16/08/87	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

51556 - original number
78723 - from 24/03/85 (single engine conversion)

Modifications

24/03/85 - Single engine conversion

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 21/09/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51546	51556							As delivered to 56G - 29th January 1960
	51549	59696	51556						Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1
	51548	59525	51556						Noted 07/03/1969 - Leeds2
	51541	59696	51556						Noted 23/05/1969 - Leeds2
	51548	59534	51556						Noted 17/10/1969 - Leeds on 17.12 to Morecambe with 50555-59212-502452
	51556	59243	59194	51560					Noted 12/12/1969 - Leeds, on 17.35 to Goole2
	51550	51556							Noted 12/01/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3
	51811	59191	51556						Noted 13/03/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3
	51543	59533	51556						Noted 23/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3
	51546	59572	51556						Noted 15/08/1970 - at York4
	50163	59073	59529	51556					Noted 11/12/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3
L180	51548	59533	51556						Noted 08/09/73 - in Leeds City5
	51548	59533	51556						Noted 10/08/74 - at Peterborough5
	51548	59533	51556						Noted 02/11/1974 - at Sheffield 4
	50201	51548	59533	51556					Noted 07/01/75 - at York, 3-car with 50201 attached5
	51556	59055	59089	51560					Noted 16/09/75 - at Hull1
	51546	59533	51556						Noted 09/02/76 - at Brough1
	51548	59533	51556						Noted 17/03/77 - on Cambridge depot5
	51548	59532	51556						Noted circa 10/19813
	51548	59533	51556						Noted 02/07/82 - on 10.50 Bradford - York and 12.11 return
	51548	51556							Noted circa 10/19823
	51548	51556							Noted circa 03/19833
	51548	51556							Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds3
	51548	51556							Noted 31/03/1984 - at Leeds City6
	51548	51556							Listed at NL - 01/01/85
	78973	78723							Noted circa 06/19853
	78973	78723							Noted 22/07/85 - at Keighley with E78717 + E78967
	78973	78723							Noted 19th August 1986
	78973	78723							Noted 29/09/19863
	78973	78723							Noted 01/11/19863
	78960	78723							Noted 24/04/1987 - at Sheffield7

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Gerald Brown
6: Martin Lumley
7: Robert Chilton

Images:

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circa 1985

Class 111 vehicles 78723 78973 draw into Cattal, North Yorkshire, in the mid-1980s. The station is on way from Leeds to York via Harrogate. Graeme Phillips Collection.

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22nd July 1985

Two single-engined Met-Camm sets at Keighley on July 22, 1985: E78723 + E78973 / E78717 + E78967. John Carter.

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15th May 1988

Class 111 single engine conversion E78723 at Snailwell on the 15th May 1988. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 18th April 1981

A Class 111 DMU formed of 51548 + 59533 + 51556 waits its next turn of duty at Ilkley on 18 April 1981. Derek Hoskins.

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Date: 2nd July 1982

Metro-Cammell three car dmu E51548 + E59533 + E51556 at rest in York station having arrived as the 10.50 from Bradford. The set went back on the 12.11 departure. July 2nd 1982. Gerard Fletcher.

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Date: 29th January 1983

A Class 111 DMU formed of vehicles E51548 + E51556 in Harrogate station on 29 January 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.