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            E51813 sits in the sidings at Leeming Bar, Wensleydale Railway, 4th May 2009 

Unit History
E51813 is a class 110 Driving Motor Brake Composite (DMBC) built by the Birmingham Carriage and Wagon Company in 1961 as part of thirty sets (three car) built to operate services on the former Lancashire and Yorkshire main line and were allocated to Neville Hill and Newton Heath. These sets spent their entire careers based around this area and earned them the name of the 'Calder Valley' sets. This arduous route meant they required more power than other DMU sets, so they were fitted with 180hp Rolls Royce engines which gave them the best hp/ton of any of the first generation DMU’s. A serious early problem for the class was their habit of catching fire, due to the poor routing of the exhausts and also heater problems. The first vehicles to be withdrawn were E51821/37 on the 9th November 1963, due to a fire at Sowerby Bridge. A fire at Hammerton Street depot destroyed E59706 and M52074/59705 were withdrawn in the late 1960s. In the first ten years in traffic the class had suffered ninety two fires in the ninety vehicles. This led to a series of modifications which eventually reduced this problem. By the early 1970’s there were twenty eight complete three car sets and one spare DMC left in traffic and they were included in the DMU refurbishment program which commenced in the mid 1970’s, however the work did not commence on this class until 1979. The cost of refurbishment of a spare power car could not be justified, so the worst one, E51848, was withdrawn in 1979. In the early 1980’s the West Yorkshire PTE adopted a policy of reducing DMU sets to two-cars wherever possible to meet public transport spending limitations imposed by Parliament. Services required only nine three-car class 110 sets for peak workings, and so eighteen trailers (fifteen recently refurbished) were withdrawn in 1983, leaving ten three car sets and eighteen two car sets. These units fell victim to the influx of the second generation DMU’s and were withdrawn in the early 1990’s with E51813 being condemned in March 1990. However E51813 along with E51842 were bought for preservation and made their passenger debut on the 2nd March 1991 on the East Lancashire Railway. Centre car E59701was later bought from the Battlefield Railway and the three car set moved to the Wensleydale Railway in 2003.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Leeming Bar (show map)

Taken on: May 4, 2009

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Sets appears in: • Class 110 • May 2009

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