Class 111 Met-Camm sets 2/3-car DMUs

Refurbishment

The 3.35pm Leeds - Morecambe arrives into Keighley station on March 23, 1977, with DMBS M50134 leading, the first 111 to be refurbished. Michael Mensing.

In all, 57 (of the 98 built) Class 111 vehicles would be refurbished. All were done at Doncaster Works between July 1976 and April 1983. Some of the unpowered vehicles were working with Class 101 power cars at the time.

Until May 1979, the first 17 vehicle, the white/blue stripe "refurbished" livery was applied, after that blue/grey was used.

The first vehicle treated — DMBS 50134 — kept its four marker lamps on the cab front. Later vehicles would have the front ends standardised leaving just two lamps, on the batch two vehicles this meant plating over the two-character route indicator and on the batch three vehicles the four-character headcode was removed. The latter were still identifiable by the lowered destination blind.

Vehicle Details

The table below shows the Works date and the livery applied for each vehicle. Information supplied by Eddie Knorn, extracted from the BR vehicle record cards.