M50455 being used as hauled stock behind 4F 44422 brings up the rear of a service train at Consall, 24th February 2008.
Unit History
Three hundred and two class 104 vehicles were built by Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd between 1957 and 1958. They were formed into fifteen power trailer two car sets, fifty six three car sets and twenty six four car sets and allocated to the London Midland and North Eastern Regions. M50455 is a Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) and entered traffic in 1957 as part of a three car set M59163 and M50507 allocated to Longsight for Manchester area suburban services. It remained on these duties until the latter half of the 1980’s when it was one of eight class 104 vehicles transferred to the London area for Barking – Gospel Oak duties on which it remained until January 1992. This was followed by six months allocated to Reading for Thames Valley duties until withdrawn in June 1992. Sold for preservation it was moved to the Churnet Valley Railway for storage until restored to traffic between 1999 and 2004.
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