Newton Heath depot has formed Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co Class 100 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50342 into a Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co Class 104 triple set which stands in the platform at Manchester Victoria, 20th July 1976.
Unit History
Forty power/trailer two car sets were built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co to this design in two batches making them rather rare. Twenty nine sets were for the Scottish Region (allocated to Leith Central) and eleven sets for the London Midland Region (allocated to Longsight) although the first nine Scottish Region sets were initially loaned to the London Midland Region. The Scottish sets were displaced at the end of the 1960’s with the majority being transferred to Norwich, however withdrawals commenced in 1972 and continued at regular intervals throughout the 1970’s. The survivors in the latter years could found in the Manchester area as Norwich dispensed with the class by withdrawal or transfer as fast as it could. Sc50342 entered traffic in June 1957 paired with Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) Sc 56097 allocated on loan to Longsight before heading north to Leith Central. It returned to Longsight in May 1975 and survived in traffic until withdrawn in August 1982. It was broken up during September 1984.
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