Vehicle 50125

Class 116

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30213
Diagram: 554

Allocations

50125 was involved in the following incident:

24/11/60 - Between Pontrhydyfen and Cwmavon, WR

Collision involving Class 116 / Steam

Info from Bill Read, Railway Observer January 1961 p14

A 3-car DMU (set CAT343, 50125 + 59343 + 50083) working the 4.55pm Swansea High Street to Barry Island was in a head-on collision with an unfitted goods train (weighing 620 tons) hauled by a Class 57XX Tank locomotive (9737) running bunker first. 2 persons killed and 26 injured. The point of collision was on a single-line section with a gradient of 1 in 42. The locomotive drove some five feet into the leading power car which telescoped some ten feet into the intermediate trailer. The locomotive was also extensively damaged and 8 wagons were wrecked. The goods train was travelling too fast down the gradient and had an insufficient number of wagon brakes applied to enable it to stop at the Pontrhydyfen signal.

Disposal

Scrapped by BR, Swindon Works

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

Images:

circa May 1957

An official image (Derby Works negative 57/589) showing power cars from suburban triple sets under construction. Work is also progressing on a chassis to the left, above which hangs a sign 'Stage 1A, stud welding, fasten down floor panels'. To the left of the coupling hook on the closest vehicle is written '30213 No.24' which means it was a DMS, the 24th vehicle of Lot 30213 would become 50125 if delivered in order, new to Cathays in August. On the rear of the print was written 'This for the advert says Mr Baxter 27/5/57'. British Railways.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 27th March 1991

Set number: L210

Class 116/101 hybrid L210 with 53083 leading enters Reading on 27/3/91. 53083 lost it’s original working partner as long ago as 1961 when 50125 was written off by a runaway coal train in the Afan Valley, South Wales. The 101 DTC is presumably 54381. Mac Winfield.