Vehicle 56215
Class 108
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30410
Diagram: 640
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 50629 during the unknown period are:
| w/e 21/02/59 | New to | Chaddesden | - stored pending allocation |
| Jun-59 | Transferred to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
| Oct-59 | Transferred to | 27F (Brunswick) | |
| 11/09/61 | Transferred to | 8H (Allerton) | - presume moved on closure of Brunswick |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 8J |
Then the allocations for 56215 are:
| 12/09/71 | Withdrawn from | 8J (Allerton) | - damaged |
Disposal
Scrapped by BR, Derby C&W Works
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50629 | 56215 | As delivered to - w/e 21/02/59 - stabled at Chaddesden sidings, pending allocation | |||||||
| 50629 | 56215 | Transfer to 27F - Oct-59 | |||||||
| 50975 | 56215 | Noted 20/12/66 - at Liverpool Lime Street1 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: circa February 1959
An official image (Derby Works negative 59/54) of a two-car Derby Lightweight (blue square) posed on the Wirksworth branch, circa February 1959. The vehicles are DMBS M50629 and DTCL M56215. They would initially be stored at Chaddesden Sidings 'pending allocation', then transferred to Newton Heath in June 1959 to begin their working life. British Railways.