Vehicle 56064 / 54064

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Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30262
Diagram: 630

Allocations

06/06/57	New to	54A (Sunderland)
Jun-57	On loan to	9A (Longsight)
3w/e 03/08/57	Ex-loan back to	54A (Sunderland)
3w/e 30/08/58	Transferred to	South Gosforth
Feb-64	Depot code change	52J
May-73	Depot code change	GF
w/e 30/01/77	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
28/09/86	Transferred to	CA (Cambridge)
18/01/87	Transferred to	NC (Norwich)
14/06/87	Withdrawn from	NC (Norwich)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56064 - original number
54064 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 30/03/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50212	56064							As delivered to 54A - 6th June 1957
	50212	56064							Noted 17th June 1957
	50212	56064							Transfer to 54A - 3w/e 03/08/1957 - ex-loan LMR
	50257	56064							Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle1
	51210	56064							Noted 06/04/72 - at Newcastle1
	50257	56064							Noted 02/06/1973 - at Newcastle2
	50257	56064							Noted 05/07/74 - at Sheffield1
	50257	56064							Noted 26/08/74 - at Newcastle Central3
	50257	56064							Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot3
	50257	56064							Transfer to NL - w/e 30/01/77
	50296	56064							Noted 10/08/77 - at Morecambe Promenade
	50296	56064							Noted 10/12/1977 - Leeds Neville Hill4
	50296	56064							Noted 17/06/1978 - Leeds4
	50296	56064							Noted 09/09/1978 - Darlington4
	50296	56064							Noted circa 11/19785
	50296	56064							Noted 09/02/1980 - at Leeds City4
	50296	56064							Noted 26/04/80 - at York3
	50296	56064							Noted 13/12/1980 - at Leeds City4
	50296	56064							Noted 15/05/1982 - at York4
	50296	56064							Noted 13/06/1982 - at Sheffield Midland4
	50296	56064							Noted circa 02/19835
	53296	54064							Noted 27/08/1983 - at Leeds City4
	53296	54064							Noted 31/03/1984 - at Leeds City4
	53296	54064							Listed at NL - 01/01/85
	53296	54064							Noted 20/04/1985 - at Leeds City 4
	53296	54064							Noted 19th August 1986
18	53296	54064							Formation change - CA - circa Dec-86
18	53296	54064							Noted 12/12/19865
	53296	54064							Noted 19/01/87 - at Norwich3
18	53296	54064							Noted 01/02/1987 - at Ely on 11.04 Kings Lynn to Cambridge.6
80	53296	54064							Listed at NC - Apr-87
80	53296	54064							Noted 30/05/1987 - at Norwich7

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Martin Lumley
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Nicholas Youngman
7: Robert Chilton

Images:

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10th August 1977

Its the 10th August 1977, and E56064 & E50296 are at Morecambe Promenade on the Lancaster Shuttle. Robert Frise.

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circa late 1977

A two-car Class 101 (E56064 and presumably E50296) in Horsforth station heading to Leeds circa late 1977. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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23rd June 1979

E56064 + E50296 form part of a Scarborough service seen in York station on 23 June 1979. They were allocated to Neville Hill depot, so this was likely a service from Leeds. Tony Smith.