Vehicle 56097
Class 100
Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30279
Diagram: 537
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 50342 during the unknown period are:
| w/e 30/06/57 | New to | 9A (Longsight) | - on loan from 64A |
| Sep-57 | On loan to | 5D (Cockshute) | |
| w/e 09/11/57 | Ex-loan back to | 64A (St Margarets) |
Then the allocations for 56097 are:
| c. summer-58 | Transferred to | Leith Central | |
| Nov-59 | Depot code change | 64H | |
| 2w/e 11/03/61 | On loan to | 61A (Kittybrewster) | |
| 2w/e 22/04/61 | Ex-loan back to | 64H (Leith Central) | |
| 2w/e 26/10/62 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| 3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 64H (Leith Central) | |
| 2w/e 30/04/72 | Transferred to | 62B (Dundee) | - 64H closed |
| 22/10/72 | Withdrawn from | 62B (Dundee) |
Disposal
Preserved - more details.
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50342 | 56097 | As delivered to 9A - w/e 30/06/57 - on loan from 64A | |||||||
| 50342 | 56097 | Noted 26th February 1958 - On driver instruction work on Kelvin Valley branch | |||||||
| 50342 | 56097 | Transfer to 61A - 2w/e 11/03/61 | |||||||
| 50342 | 56097 | Transfer to 64H - 4w/e 06/05/61 | |||||||
| 50342 | 56097 | Transfer to 66C - 4w/e 10/11/62 | |||||||
| 50342 | 56097 | Transfer to 64H - 3w/e 30/04/66 | |||||||
| 51117 | 56097 | Noted 16/08/70 - at Leith Central1 | |||||||
| 50342 | 56097 | Noted 03/08/1972 - at Edinburgh Waverley 2 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
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