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Vehicle 56086 / 54086


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30272
Diagram: 630

Allocations

05/12/57 New to 51A (Darlington)
May-73Depot code changeDN
w/e 15/01/78 Transferred to GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
27/07/86 Withdrawn from HT (Heaton)

Notes

30/06/86 - collision with HST at Darlington. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/markh737/17149022787/

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56086 - original number
54086 - from Feb-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 13/01/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50293 56086 As delivered to 51A - 5th December 1957
50598 56086 Noted 11/09/65 - at Thornaby1
51220 56086 Noted 03/04/711
51216 56086 Noted 09/06/73 - at Thornaby2
N163 50220 56086 Noted 07/01/75 - in Newcastle Central, set number only on 560862
N163 56086 Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, loose vehicle2
50294 56086 Transfer to GF - Jan-78
50152 56086 Noted circa 03/19793
50251 56086 Noted 04/04/81 - on 11:08 to Newcastle at South Shields
51429 56086 Noted 15/08/81 - at Newcastle
51429 56086 Noted circa 12/19813
51222 56086 Noted 27/10/82 - on 12:38 Newcastle - Carlisle
53293 54086 Noted circa 03/1983 - BREL Doncaster3
53247 54086 Noted 07/05/83 - in Newcastle Central2
53209 54086 Noted Mar-84 - on Newcastle - Carlisle working4
53164 54086 Noted 08/07/84 - at Darlington
53156 54086 Noted circa 03/19853
53293 54086 Noted circa 01/19863

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

Images:

Class 101 DMU at South Shields

4th April 1981

E56086 + E50251 with the 11:08 to Newcastle at South Shields on April 4, 1981. The soon to be withdrawn service to South Shields - the line was converted to light rail Metro trains. However, the Metro line stopped short of here with a featureless 'plastic' station being provided instead. A NER tiled map can be seen on the wall on the right, I wonder what happened to that when the station was demolished. John Carter.

Class 101 DMU at Darlington

8th July 1984

Class 101 Met Cam DMUs at Darlington, 53140 on left 54086 on right, 8-7-84. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

Class 101 DMU at Glaisdale

15th March 1986

The view from the front of 54086 working a Whitby to Middlesbrough train at Glaisdale as 53262 arrives leading a train to Whitby 15th March 1986. Keith Long.

Class 101 DMU at Thornaby

24th May 1987

Class 101 54086 is seen condemned at Thornaby on 24.05.1987 after an altercation with an HST power car. Note the Tyne and Wear PTE symbol. Andy Cole.

Class 101 DMU at Thornaby depot

1988

Class 101 DTS(L) 54086 at Thornaby TMD in 1988. The Heaton based vehicle had been in a collision with HST vehicle 43143 at Darlington station on the 30th June 1986, and withdrawn in July 1986. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 101 DMU at Vic Berrys

30th October 1988

E54086 Vic Berrys, Leicester on 30-10-88. Kevin Dowd.

Class 101 DMU at Vic Berrys

19th November 1988

Met-Camm 54086 is feeling a little crushed at Vic Berry's on November 19, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 15th August 1981

1981-08-15 03 059 and E51282 (working with a refurbished Met-Camm vehicle) in Newcastle on 15-8-1981. In the background is E56086 + E51429. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 27th October 1982

A Class 101 formed of DMBS E51222 and DTS(L) E56086 at Newcastle, 27/10/1982. They are waiting to depart from what was then platform 13, with 12:38 Newcastle - Carlisle. Note the Tyne & Wear PTE logo carried behind the driver's door. Graeme Phillips Collection.

DMU

Date: 8th July 1984

Class 101 DMUs at Darlington, 54086 + 53164 on left, 54084 + 53233 with 18-15 to Saltburn on right, 8-7-84. The set on the left, with 'Special' on the destination blind, has red items hanging from the passenger doors, excursion boards? On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

DMU

Date: 15th March 1986

Whitby station with 53162 and 54086 having arrived from Middlesbrough 15th March 1986. Keith Long.