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Vehicle 50278 / 53278 / 78712

Class 111

BR Diagram 616

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30268
Diagram: 616

Allocations

23/01/58 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
w/e 30/04/67 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-73Depot code changeNL
p/e 07/10/89 Sector Change to NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ
23/10/89 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50278 - original number
53278 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
78712 - from circa Sep-84 (single engine conversion)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 05/02/1982 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50288 59108 50278 As delivered to 56G - 23rd January 1958
50288 59108 50278 Noted 05/08/66 - at Wakefield Kirkgate1
50288 59108 50278 Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1
50288 59105 50278 Noted 20/07/68 - in Leeds City1
50288 59105 50278 Noted 27/07/68 - at Leeds City1
50288 59089 50278 Noted 29/08/70 - at York1
L173 50283 59571 50278 Noted circa 19712
50283 59571 50278 Noted 03/09/1971 - at York3
50283 59571 50278 Noted 18/09/1971 - at Leeds3
50283 59571 50278 Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1
50278 59571 50283 Noted 12/12/75 - at Cambridge4
50283 59571 50278 Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds1
50283 59571 50278 Noted 31/12/76 - at Manchester Victoria1
50278 Noted 20/01/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle4
50283 59571 50278 Noted circa 11/19792
50283 59571 50278 Noted circa 04/19822
50283 50278 Noted circa 10/19822
50283 50278 Noted circa 02/19832
53283 53278 Noted circa 05/19842
53283 53278 Noted 17/05/84
78962 78712 Listed at NL - 01/01/85
78962 78712 Noted circa 06/19852
78962 78712 Noted 17/05/86 - on 13:25 Morecambe - Leeds with 51230 + 54369 / 53257 + 540905
78962 78712 Noted 25/05/86 - on 16:22 Carlisle - Leeds with 54018 + 53047 / 51425 + 515045
78962 78712 Noted 05/10/19862
78962 78712 Noted 26/09/87 - on 06:08 Chesterfield - Sheffield
78962 78712 Listed at NL - 22/11/87
78962 78712 Noted 28/11/87 - on 11:15 Sheffield - Leeds via Barnsley5
78962 78712 Listed at NL - early Apr-88
78962 78712 Noted 29/07/88 - on 22:22 Lincoln-Sheffield
78962 78712 Noted 21/08/1988 - 51529-51795+78712-78962 noted working from York to Redmire
78962 78712 Noted 24/09/88 - on 14:17 Sheffield - Lincoln Central
78962 78712 Noted circa 11/19882
204 78962 78712 Listed at NL - Feb-89
78712 78962 Noted 31/07/89 - on 13:02 Leeds - Carlisle hauled by 47301 with 53641 + 532916
NL204 78962 78712 Listed at NL - 05/09/89

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Martin Baumann
6: Graeme Phillips

Images:

Class 111 DMU at Huddersfield

circa January 1958

A scene that epitomises the early years of DMU travel in Yorkshire. A Rolls-Royce powered Metropolitan-Cammell 3-car unit with E50278 trailing stands in platform 1B at Huddersfield forming a service to Wakefield Kirkgate on a misty winter's day in the 'pre-whisker' era of the late-1950s, possibly shortly after delivery in January 1958 (to Hammerton Street). The other two vehicles are presumably 59108 + 50288. Gordon Edgar Collection.

Class 111 DMU at Sheffiled Midland

29th November 1980

A Class 111 set at Sheffield Midland, with 50278 closest. 29/11/80. Chris Lings.

Class 111 DMU at Shipley

17th May 1984

Rolls-Royce powered Class 111 set E53278 + E53283 at Shipley on a Ilkley - Bradford F.Sq. working, 17/5/84. Hamish Stevenson.

Class 111 DMU at Snailwell

12th August 1990

Met-Camm single-engine conversion E78712 in Snailwell on August 12, 1990. Nicholas Youngman.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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