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Vehicle 56496 / 54496


Class 108

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30602
Diagram: 646

Allocations

The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 51913 during the unknown period are:

07/05/60 New to 18A (Toton)
4w/e 31/12/60 Transferred to 8H (Allerton)
Sep-63Depot code change8J

Then the allocations for 56496 are:

04/09/82 Transferred to CH (Chester)
circa Dec-83 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
02/03/86 Transferred to CH (Chester)
14/05/90 Transferred to LO (Longsight) PLOX
28/02/92 Withdrawn from LO (Longsight) PXXZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56496 - original number
54496 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 28/08/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51913 56496 As delivered to 18A - 7th May 1960
51913 56496 Noted 31/12/69 - in Liverpool Lime Street1
51420 56496 Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight then later in Manchester Piccadilly2
51909 56496 Noted 08/1975 - at Birmingham New Street on either 16th or 23rd August 19753
51909 56496 Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot1
51909 56496 Noted 20/11/75 - at Brough with 51424/564972
51918 56496 Noted 13/08/1977 - 08.25 Lime Street to Bangor with 51417-56492 and 51913-564934
51918 56496 Noted 27/08/1977 - 08.25 Lime Street - Bangor with 51916-56277 and 51914-562734
AN272 51917 56496 Noted 31/05/19824
51917 54496 Noted circa 06/19834
53971 54496 Noted circa 12/19834
53971 54496 Noted circa 03/19844
51911 54496 Noted circa 06/19854
51911 54496 Noted circa 01/19864
51911 54496 Noted 26/04/86 - on 10:50 Shrewsbury - Chester with 53222 + 53337 / 53938 + 544115
51911 54496 Listed at Chester - Summer 1986
51911 54496 Noted 24/07/1986 - at Chester6
51911 54496 Noted 22/04/1987 - at Stoke on Trent6
51911 54496 Noted 05/07/1987 - at Manchester Piccadilly - as 4 car set with 51417-542726
51911 54496 Noted 16/01/19884
264 51911 54496 Noted circa 04/19884
CH264 51911 54496 Noted Apr-88
CH264 51911 54496 Listed at CH - May 1988
CH264 51911 54496 Noted circa May-88
CH264 51911 54496 Noted circa Jul-88
CH264 51911 54496 Listed at CH - 14/10/89
CH264 51911 54496 Noted circa 12/19894
CH261 51906 54496 Noted 28/04/90 - on 2H60 21:30 Manchester Piccadilly - New Mills Central
LO261 51906 54496 Listed at LO - mid May-90
LO256 51901 54496 Listed at LO - Jul-91
LO256 51901 54496 Listed at LO - Aug-91

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

Images:

Class 108 DMU at Longsight depot

31st August 1980

A two-car Class 108 with Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) M56496, was stabled in the sidings at Longsight Depot on August 31st 1980. To the left is an intermediate (MBSL) car from a Swindon Class 124 'Trans-Pennine' DMU, whilst to the rear of the 108 is a BRCW Class 104 set, with another 104 visible in the distance, keeping company with a Class 47. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 108 DMU at New Mills

21st May 1991

Set number: LO256

LO256 M54496 + M51901 + LO255 M51424 + M54232 2E24 18:30 Piccadilly to Sheffield at New Mills South Junction 21-5-91. Kevin Dowd.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa 1964

A (blue square) Derby Lightweight twin (M51913 and presumably M56496) thought to be working the shuttle between St Helens Junction and St Helens Shaw Street (now Central). Date unknown, the shuttle ended in June 1965, so the yellow panel dates it to the 1963-5 period. Behind the unit used to be Peasley Cross station which closed in 1951. There are not many passengers on board, and the seat moquette which I can see better on the original scan is the same as that used in the 2nd class of the Marylebone quads (see image 15353) and the Ayrshire Swindon Inter-City sets (image 24623). Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 27th August 1983

Class 47 no 47342 hauls DMU cars 51917/54496/54058/53206 through Llandudno Junction on 27 August 1983. This was a return ecs working from an incoming additional service from Blythe Bridge to Llandudno, which I had travelled in from Llandudno Junction. I'm not sure whether 47342 had hauled the dmus from Blythe Bridge, or (as seems more likely) it had come on following a failure of one or both of the 2-car units. Lewis Bevan.

DMU

Date: 28th April 1990

Set number: CH261

CH261 M51906 + M54496 arrive at New Mills Central on 2H60 the 21:30 ex-Manchester Piccadilly, 28-4-90. Kevin Dowd.