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Vehicle 56030 / 54030

Class 114

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30210
Diagram: 641

Allocations

24/01/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
3w/e 04/07/59	Transferred to	41A (Darnall)
Oct-59	On loan to	NER (NER)
31/10/59	Ex-loan back to	41A (Darnall)
4w/e 28/04/62	Transferred to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
05/01/86	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56030 - original number
54030 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 16/11/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

50030	56030	As delivered to 40A - 24th January 1957
50030	56030	Transfer to 41A - 4w/e 28/11/59 - ex-loan NER
50030	56030	Transfer to 40A - 4w/e 28/04/62
50030	56030	Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster¹
50030	56030	Noted May 1968
50030	56030	Noted 28/10/71 - in Sheffield Midland²
50030	56030	Noted 29/08/74 - in Sheffield Midland²
50042	56030	Noted 08/09/75 - at Brough¹
50042	56030	Noted 27/10/75 - at Brough¹
50042	56030	Noted 29/03/1976 - at Retford³
50012	56030	Noted 08/04/1976 - at Retford³
50013	56030	Noted 04/06/77 - on 0930 Lincoln Central-Sheffield
50047	56030	Noted 02/12/77 - at Bury St Edmunds²
50005	56030	Noted 22/09/79 - R.C.T.S. (West Midlands Branch) The Cottam Railtour 50005 + 56030 / 50011 + 56044 / 51288 + 56446
50009	56030	Noted 30/03/1980 - 8 car 114 noted working Louth-York and return 50009-56030+56014-50019+56007-50043+50012-56021 [car 56021 assumed]
50038	56030	Noted circa 02/1983⁴
53024	54030	Noted 24/04/1984⁴
53046	54030	Noted circa 04/1985⁴
53046	54030	Noted 12/04/85 - at Norwich²

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

Images:

7th March 1970

Derby Heavyweight DMU cars E56030 and E50030 are seen at Willoughby station on 7 March 1970 having arrived on the 15.52 from Mablethorpe. The line would close in October. Tom Burnham.

13th March 1978

E56030 is part of this 114 set seen at Cleethorpes on 13/3/78. Ian Francis.

Unknown date

A Class 114 DMU with DTCL E56030 closest at Worksop, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 7th March 1970

DMU cars E50030 and E56030 have arrived at Mablethorpe with the 13.56 from Willoughby on 7 March 1970. Tom Burnham.

Date: 2nd August 1978

Nottingham station on a wet and windy 2nd August 1978. This 2-car Class 114 dmu has just arrived with service from Skegness. I had arrived in Nottingham about 40 minutes earlier on the 09.35 Carlisle-Nottingham, hauled by 45 037, and was awaiting the 15.10 Nottingham-St Pancras (45140) to take me to Leicester. The Class 114 was formed 50044/56030. 50044 was new in March 1957, when it was allocated to Lincoln (40A). It stayed at Lincoln until October 1987, when it was transferred to Tyseley (TS). It was withdrawn from service at TS in October 1991 (during the Sprinter Revolution) and was scrapped by Mayer Newman at Snailwell. 56030 was new, also to 40A, in January 1957, and stated at LN until withdrawal in January 1986. 56030 (by then renumbered to 54030) was scrapped at Berry's yard in Leicester. Lewis Bevan.

Date: 9th March 1985

Set number: 74

Cambridge with 54373/51225 on the left, with 53215/54368 to the right ahead of class 114, 53046/54030. 9 March 1985. Rob Paterson.

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