Vehicle 51201
Class 101
Builder: Met-Camm
Type: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150 hp / Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30467
Diagram: 523
Images:
Date: 4th September 1976
25 110 and freshly refurbished Met-Camm DMBS 51201 on display at a Derby Works open day on 4th September 1976. John Law.
Date: 26th June 1982
W51201 and W56347 are seen leaving Borth station on the 26th June 1982, with Wolverhampton High Level showing on the destination blind. Steve Davies Collection.
Date: 26th June 1982
W51201 and W56347 are seen leaving Borth station on the 26th June 1982, which has signs of track being lifted in the foreground. Steve Davies Collection.
Date: unknown
Set number: 101663
101663 is making plenty of smoke at Bargoed. Undated. Tom Clift.
Date: 10th September 1988
Set number: 72
Class 101 E51201 + E54347 towed by 37138 passing Ely North Junction on 10.09.88. The DMU had previously worked 2K11 07.03 Doncaster – Peterborough via The Joint but due to a failure 37138 came to assistance and now running forward as an ECS possibly to Cambridge. Surface Stock.
Date: 16th August 1993
Set number: 101663
101663 - with 51201 closest - is seen at Rose Hill on the 17:09 to Manchester Piccadilly, 16/8/93. Gazza Prescott.
Date: 4th December 1993
Set number: 101663
51201 at the head of a 6-car formation formed of 101663, 101656 and 101679 at Manchester Piccadilly, 4/12/93. Gazza Prescott.
Date: 7th January 1995
Set number: 101663
101663 (51201 & 54347) at Ashburys on 7th January 1995. Ian Buck.
Date: 28th January 2000
Set number: 101663
101663 - Car 51201 is seen at the rear of a Chester - Piccadilly service on 28th January 2000 at Stockport (Edgeley). Paul Moxon.
Date: 12th February 2000
Set number: 101663
101663 (51201 & 54347) at Deansgate on a service from Irlam on 12th February 2000. Ian Buck.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 26th June 1982
W56347 and W51201 head away from Borth station on the 26th June 1982. Steve Davies Collection.
Date: 19th July 1987
Three-car set 53878, 59612 and 53056 stabled at Leicester with Norwich's set 72 behind, headed by 51201 and presumably with out of sight, 54347. Unusually the 116 (with class 127 centre trailer) appears to have a Tyseley set number board in the 2nd man's window but with no set number apparently on it. The following year 53878 and 59612 were reformed into four-car set T421 and 53056 was in three-car set T342. Robert Chilton.
Date: 21st May 1989
Set number: 63
Set 63 E54218 + E51428 and Set 72 E51201 + E54347 seen on a Norwich to Cambridge working north of Ely around 4pm on 21st May 1989. Surface Stock.
Date: 19th November 1998
Set number: 960992
A very rare picture of a sandite 101 on a passenger turn, it may well have been a one off? 960992 977897 (53203) + 977898 (53193) + 101663 54347 + 51201 are on 2H19, the 17:09 Macclesfield to Manchester Piccadilly at Cheadle Hulme, 19-11-98. Kevin Dowd.
Date: 12th November 1999
Set number: 101663
101663 (54347 & 51201) at Manchester Piccadilly 12th November 1999. Ian Buck.
Date: 9th February 2000
Set number: 101663
Longsight based 101663 (54347 + 51201) leaves the Rose Hill branch at Marple Wharf Junction with a train to Piccadilly via Hyde, 9th February 2000. Andrew J Crowther.