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Vehicle 51814


Class 110

Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30592
Diagram: 564

Allocations

28/07/61 New to 51A (Darlington)
3w/e 30/12/61 Transferred to 56G (Hammerton Street)
31/12/61 On loan to 26A (Newton Heath)
4w/e 27/01/62 Ex-loan back to 56G (Hammerton Street)
Dec-67Depot code change55F
May-73Depot code changeHS
13/05/84 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill) - Hammerton Street closed
15/03/87 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 10/02/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51814 59698 51834 As delivered to 51A - 28th July 1961
51814 59698 51834 Transfer to 26A - 31/12/61 - on loan
51814 59698 51834 Transfer to 56G - 4w/e 27/01/62 - ex loan
51814 59698 51834 Noted 05/08/66 - at Bradford Exchange1
51814 59705 51834 Noted 20/12/66 - at Manchester1
51814 59697 51842 Noted 01/06/67 - at Leeds City1
51814 59697 51502 Noted 04/09/67 - at Bradford Exchange1
51814 59808 52081 Noted 31/08/72 - in Leeds City1
51814 59809 51832 Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster with 50013 + 560021
51814 59809 51832 Noted 08/09/73 - in Leeds City2
51814 59701 51832 Noted 27/08/1974 - at York3
51814 59701 51843 Noted 16/09/75 - at Hull1
51814 59703 52083 Noted 10/11/79
52076 59694 51814 Noted circa 04/19824
51814 59809 52085 Noted circa 10/19824
51814 59809 52085 Noted 13/10/1982 - Worked 06.45 Southport to Manchester Victoria and 08.10 return service.4
51814 59815 52085 Noted circa 02/19834
51814 52083 Noted 16/11/1983 - at Sheffield4
51814 59809 51833 Noted 03/01/1984 - at Manchester Vic, on Bolton line service4
51814 59382 52083 Noted 11/01/86 - on 15:30 Blackpool South - Preston service5
51814 59382 52083 Noted 07/10/19864
51814 52083 Noted 22/07/87

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

Images:

Class 110 DMU at Southport

30th March 1980

The preserved blue/grey liveried Class 502 set keeps company with a pair of BRCW 3-Car DMU sets in the carriage sidings at Southport on March 30th 1980. The nearest set is a Class 110 'Calder Valley' with Driving Motor Composite E51814 looking rather grimy. Close examination of the side and cab lower edge suggests it may have had a close encounter with some other object or been in a bit of a mishap. Alongside the 110 is a 3-Car Class 104, with Centre Composite Trailer M59185 on view. The set was one of the Manchester-Blackpool 'white liners', whose diagrams included the odd trip to Southport from Manchester Victoria. The car park beyond looks rather empty. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 110 DMU at Sheffield

17th November 1984

A two-car Class 110 DMU with 51814 closest in Sheffield station on the evening of 17 November 1984. Chris Thorp.

Class 110 DMU at Newcastle

22nd July 1985

A Class 110 seen at Newcastle on 22/07/1985. Whilst this Yorkshire-based class might have made occasional visits to Newcastle as arrivals from York, this image shows E51814 + E52083 awaiting departure with the 18:35 Newcastle - Sunderland Graeme Phillips Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 10th November 1979

Stabled in what can rather loosely be described as a 'shed' 'Calder Valley' BRCW Class 110 DMU Nos. E52083-E59703-E51814 inside the roofless depot at Bradford Hammerton Street on 10th November 1979. The Class 110 diesel multiple units were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company in conjunction with the Drewry Car Co. to operate services on the former Lancashire and Yorkshire main line, and spent their entire careers based around this same area. This earned them the name of the 'Calder Valley' sets. They were an updated version of the Class 104, with a revised cab design and raised bodyside window frames. Of the depot itself, the former Hammerton Street shed in Bradford closed to steam in 1958 to concentrate on DMU and diesel shunter maintenance and finally closed in 1984 when the remaining class 110 units allocated there were transferred to Neville Hill depot in Leeds. Gordon Edgar.

DMU

Date: 2nd August 1984

Class 110 E51814 and Class 114 E53041 and E54004 at Sheffield 2nd August 1984. Keith Long.

DMU

Date: 2nd August 1984

Stabled at wet Sheffield on 2 August 1984 are Class 110 No E51814 and Class 114s E53041 and E54004. Keith Long.

DMU

Date: 23rd July 1985

Class 110 E52083 + E51814 with a Saltburn - Darlington service at Darlington on July 23, 1985. John Carter.