Vehicle 56406 / 54406

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Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30468
Diagram: 630

Allocations

w/e 12/07/58	New to	62B (Dundee)
Jun-59	Transferred to	Leith Central
Nov-59	Depot code change	64H
4w/e 21/11/59	Transferred to	66C (Hamilton)
4w/e 05/12/64	Transferred to	62B (Dundee)
3w/e 30/04/66	Transferred to	66C (Hamilton)
May-68	Transferred to	64H (Leith Central)
4w/e 31/08/68	Transferred to	66C (Hamilton)
4w/e 04/11/72	Transferred to	64B (Haymarket)
May-73	Depot code change	HA
25/12/77	Transferred to	GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
31/03/88	Withdrawn from	HT (Heaton)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56406 - original number
54406 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 18/01/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51248	56406							As delivered to 62B - July 1958
	51248	56406							Noted 11th August 1958
	51248	56406							Transfer to 66C - 4w/e 21/11/59
	51248	56406							Transfer to 62B - 4w/e 05/12/64
	51248	56406							Transfer to 66C - 4w/e 31/08/68
	51248	56406							Noted 15/08/70 - on Hamilton depot1
32	51248	56406							Listed at 66C - 1972
	51248	56406							Noted 03/08/19722
	51248	56406							Noted 03/08/1972 - at Glasgow Central2
	51248	56406							Transfer to 64B - 4w/e 04/11/72
	50342	56406							Noted 04/09/73 - at Haymarket (50342 still green)3
	51112	56406							Noted 07/08/1974 - at Haymarket2
212	51483	51124	56406						Noted 28/08/74 - at Dunfermline3
	51481	56406							Noted 30/12/75 - in Edinburgh Waverley1
	51248	56406							Noted 05/09/76 - on Haymarket depot3
	51248	56406	50264						Noted 28/03/1977 - 07:23 Markinch to Edinburgh Waverley, part of a 9 car formation2
200	51248	56406	51474						Noted 13/08/77 - on Haymarket depot3
	50154	56406							Noted circa 12/19814
	51213	56406							Noted circa 02/19834
	51247	54406							Noted 7th May 1983
	51247	54406							Noted 02/06/83 - stabled in Darlington station
	53220	54406							Noted circa 03/19854
	53156	54406							Noted circa 02/19864
	54406								Noted 25/04/86 - on Norwich depot, loose vehicle3
	53247	54406							Noted 25/07/19874
	51203	54406							Noted circa 08/19874

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

Images:

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25th May 1981

The 10:00 Newcastle - South Shields awaits departure from Newcastle Central station on the 25th May 1981 with E56406 at the front. Hamish Stevenson.

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3rd September 1983

A smart pair of 2-car Metro-Cammell sets with E54406 nearest the camera stands at Filey on 3rd September 1983 before heading back to Scarborough with a special service from the annual Filey Convention. The station at this date still had it's footbridge, crossing gates, semaphore signals and signalbox. Syd Young.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 2nd June 1983

On 02/06/1983, Class 101 cars E56054 E51219 E51247 E54406 stand in sidings within Darlington station. The vehicle nearest the camera still carries its original 56xxx number, but would be renumbered to 54xxx during 1983 as has already happened with the far vehicle and with most others in the series that year. It is also highly unlikely that the front saloon was still being used as first class accommodation by this date. Graeme Phillips Collection.