Vehicle 50169 / 53169

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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: 30255
Diagram: 620

Allocations

10/01/57	New to	56G (Hammerton Street)
4w/e 01/08/64	Transferred to	South Gosforth
4w/e 05/09/64	Transferred to	56G (Hammerton Street)
Dec-67	Depot code change	55F
4w/e 25/05/68	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)
May-71	Transferred to	32A (Norwich)
May-73	Depot code change	NO
Sep-73	Depot code change	NR
w/e 18/10/75	Transferred to	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
2w/e 22/02/76	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
27/05/84	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
11/05/86	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
03/05/87	Transferred to	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
23/08/87	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
02/10/88	Transferred to	NH (Newton Heath)
09/03/89	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill) PWYX
14/05/89	Transferred to	CF (Cardiff Canton) PCFX
24/01/90	Withdrawn from	CF (Cardiff Canton) PZQZ

Notes

13/12/73 - noted as damaged on Cambridge depot

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50169 - original number
53169 - from 1984 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 05/05/1976 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50165	50169							As delivered to 56G - 10th January 1957
	50165	50169							Noted 19th January 1957 - arrived at Starbeck to start training runs between there and Poppleton
	50165	50169							Transfer to South Gosforth - 4w/e 01/08/64
	50165	50169							Transfer to 56G - 4w/e 05/09/64
	50169	59096	59045	50141					Noted 20/08/69 - at Leeds1
	50169	59086	59093	50190					Noted 23/11/69 - at Leeds1
	50256	50169							Noted 04/08/1971 - at Birmingham New Street2
	50256	50169							Noted 01/09/71 - at Norwich1
	50256	50169							Noted 02/09/71 - at Colchester on branch train to Sudbury1
	50256	50169							Noted 02/10/1971 - at Birmingham New Street3
	50256	59542	50169						Noted 20/05/73
84	50256	59542	50169						Noted 16/06/73 - at Thetford4
	50256	59542	50169						Noted 14/07/1973 - at Birmingham New Street3
	50169	59523	50268						Noted 06/04/1974 - at Birmingham New Street 2
84	50256	59523	50169						Noted 27/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
84	50256	59523	50169						Noted 01/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
84	50256	59540	50169						Noted 16/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds4
	50256	59540	50169						Noted 03/1975 - at Peterborough 2
84	50256	59540	50169						Listed at NR - 19/07/75
	50256	59540	50169						Noted 30/08/1975 - at Nottingham2
	50161	59075	59306	50169					Noted 09/07/1976 - Scarborough-Chester (8-car)5
	50161	59075	59306	50169					Noted circa 01/19776
	50161	59306	59075	50169					Noted 06/06/82 - at Skipton
	50169	59075	59108	50161					Noted circa 10/19826
	50169	59075	59108	50161					Noted circa 02/19836
	53161	59101	59075	53169					Noted circa 06/1983 - Lancaster6
	53169	59075	59101	53161					Noted circa 07/19836
	53294	53169							Noted circa 03/19856
	53169	59075	53161						Noted 27/09/19866
	53169	59075	53161						Noted 31/10/19866
	53161	59075	53169						Noted 01/05/87 - at York4
	53217	53169							Noted circa 05/19886
	51250	53169							Noted 23/07/88 - on 14:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service7
	53166	53169							Noted 30/09/88 - on 07:00 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service7
N659	51243	53169							Noted circa 11/19886
C995	51436	53169							Listed at CF - 15/05/89

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Chris Moxon
6: Eddie Knorn
7: Graeme Phillips

Images:

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9th July 1976

An unusual photo showing a very long formation formed neatly of Class 101 & 108 vehicles all carrying the short lived refurbishment livery. The occasion was a schools special from Scarborough to Chester returning through Helsby, 9/7/76. The 8-car formation was 50169/59306/59075/50161, 56191/50619 & 51230/56369. Anthony Griffiths.

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6th June 1982

Met-Camm four-car set E50169 + E59075 + E59306 + E50161 with a Dalesrail service in Skipton station on June 6th, 1982. John Carter.

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27th May 1985

With plates over the top / centre marker light positions, 53169 is seen at Battersby on the 27th May 1985. Jerry Glover.

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26th July 1986

A Class 101 DMU at Sheffield, 26/07/1986. DMS(L) 53169 was one of the more distinctive cars operating in the north of England in the 1980s, having a red buffer beam, Tyne & Wear PTE logo, plus the top and bottom centre lights on the cab front were not smoothed over as well as most others, leaving circular disc shapes Graeme Phillips Collection.

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4th March 1987

A Class 101 formed of DMCL 53169, TBSL 59075, and DMCL 53161 is seen in Carnforth station with the 12.31 Leeds - Lancaster on 4 May 1987. Dave Warby Collection.

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2nd October 1987

DMS E53169 is seen in what was then Newcastle platform 11, with Brough on its destination blind, on 2/10/87. Below the driver's window can be seen the letters BG, the depot code for Hull Botanic Gardens, which at the time maintained a fleet of DMUs for East Yorkshire. In most cases, the top and bottom centre lights were smoothed away without a trace upon refurbishment, but this cab front exhibits the welded plates. Graeme Phillips Collection.

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1990

Set number: 995

Although not seen, 53169 of C995 is still carrying a Tyne & Weir PTE motif on its bodyside showing its Heaton Traction origins, when seen at Cardiff Central in 1990. Mac Winfield.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 31st August 1976

M50356 (and presumably M56111) arrives at Stalybridge with the 14:30 from Stockport (with a tail lamp at this end? maybe changing platforms?) on 31 August 1976. On the left the 12:13 Scarborough-Liverpool Lime Street departs with refurbished liveried E50169 on the rear. Robert Thomas.

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Date: 7th June 1981

E51841 and E50169 at Skipton on 7/6/81. John Carter.