Vehicle 50151 / 53151
Class 101
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150 hp / Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30249
Diagram: 618
Allocations
| 30/11/56 | New to | South Gosforth | |
| 4w/e 31/07/60 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
| 3w/e 21/03/76 | Transferred to | DN (Darlington) | |
| w/e 08/06/80 | Transferred to | NR (Norwich) | |
| Dec-83 | Depot code change | NC | |
| 12/05/85 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
| 11/05/86 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
| 28/09/86 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50151 - original number
53151 - from Feb-85 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated 07/07/1980 released in blue/grey liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50150 | 59048 | 59055 | 50151 | As delivered to South Gosforth - 30th November 1956 | |||||
| 50151 | 59048 | 59093 | 50264 | Noted 4th April 1958 | |||||
| 50150 | 59048 | 59055 | 50151 | Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 31/07/60 | |||||
| 50150 | 59095 | 59106 | 50151 | Noted 24/10/70 - at Sheffield Midland1 | |||||
| 50151 | 59091 | 59092 | 50244 | Noted 24/04/1973 - at Scarborough2 | |||||
| 50151 | 59091 | 59092 | 50244 | Noted 11/08/73 - on a Norwich - Peterborough service with 50387 + 561213 | |||||
| 50151 | 59091 | 59092 | 50244 | Noted 16/03/1974 - at York2 | |||||
| 50151 | 59091 | 59092 | 50244 | Noted 05/01/75 - on Botanic Gardens depot3 | |||||
| 50151 | 59092 | 59091 | 50244 | Noted 29/10/75 - at York1 | |||||
| 50151 | 59072 | 59113 | 50178 | Noted 07/04/1976 - at Darlington 2 | |||||
| 50151 | 59083 | 50179 | Transfer to NR - w/e 08/06/80 | ||||||
| 53188 | 59097 | 53151 | Noted circa 02/19864 | ||||||
| 53263 | 59076 | 53151 | Noted circa 08/19864 | ||||||
| 53151 | 59076 | 53263 | Noted 19th August 1986 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
Images:
circa August 1985
Set number: 97
A Class 101 DMU arrives at Battersby with a Whitby service, the slide process date is August 1985. The Norwich set number identifies the leading car as E53151, transferred from Norwich to Heaton in May 1985. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Unknown date
Set number: 97
A five-car formation of Met-Camm vehicles departs westbound from York with a service for Bradford Interchange in the mid/late 1980s. The leading vehicle - 53151 - still carries its East Anglian set number 97. It had been transferred from Norwich to HT in May 1985, then to NL in the first half of May 1986. Graeme Phillips Collection.
July 1986
Set number: 97
A six-car DMU formation at Haxby on July 1986. Leading is a three-car trailer brake Met-Camm set, 53151 is thought to be leading still carrying Norwich set number 97. The rear set appears to be a Class 110 with Class 108 centre car. George Woods.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 24th October 1981
Set number: 93
Class 101 DMU set 93 with the Fakenham & Dereham Railway Society "Mid-Anglia Rambler" railtour at Barnwell Jct on 24 October 1981. The vehicle are noted as being E50151 + E59076 + E50261. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 23rd October 1984
Set number: 91
Three-car Class 101 DMU set 91 arrives at Manningtree on 23 October 1984. 53151 is noted as being the closest vehicle. Chris Thorp.