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Vehicle 50147 / 53147


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

09/11/56 New to South Gosforth
Feb-64Depot code change52J
May-73Depot code changeGF
04/06/78 Transferred to DE (Dundee)
p/e 28/11/81 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
circa Aug-82 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
07/09/86 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
circa Jul-87 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50147 - original number
53147 - from Jan-84 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 05/11/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50146 59046 59053 50147 As delivered to South Gosforth - 9th November 1956
50147 59382 59250 50646 Noted 03/04/711
50147 59050 59043 51511 Noted 02/06/1973 - at Newcastle2
N408 50147 59050 59043 51511 Noted 08/09/73 - at York3
N408 50147 59050 59043 51511 Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number only on 501473
50147 59050 59043 51511 Noted 30/12/75 - at Newcastle1
50147 59050 59043 51511 Noted 01/04/1976 - at Newcastle4
234 51250 59067 50147 Noted 08/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley5
316 51242 59071 50147 Listed at DE - 01/02/81
101316 51242 59071 50147 Listed at AY - 13/06/82
101302 53290 59071 53147 Listed at HA - 17/06/84
101316 51242 59071 50147 Listed at HA - 25/03/85
101301 53254 59305 53147 Noted circa 02/19865
101316 51242 59071 53147 Listed at HA - Summer 1986
301 53254 59305 53147 Listed at HA - August 1986
101301 53254 59305 53147 Noted 4th August 1986
101316 51242 59071 53147 Noted circa 12/19865
101316 51242 59071 53147 Noted 05/12/19875

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Sutton Park

circa October 1956

A Metropolitan Cammell image (negative DZ155) showing a brand new four-car DMU set for the North Eastern Region in Sutton Park station. DMSL E50147 is closest (with many staff on board), TBLS E59053 behind, the other two vehicles are presumably TSL E59046 and DMSL E50146. They were listed as new to South Gosforth on 9 November 1956. Metropolitan Cammell.

Class 101 DMU at Sutton Park

circa October 1956

A Metropolitan Cammell image showing a brand new four-car DMU set for the North Eastern Region in Sutton Park station. DMSL E50147 is closest (with many staff on board), TBLS E59053 behind, the other two vehicles are presumably TSL E59046 and DMSL E50146. They were listed as new to South Gosforth on 9 November 1956. Metropolitan Cammell.

Class 101 DMU at Sutton Park

circa October 1956

A Metropolitan Cammell image showing a brand new four-car DMU set for the North Eastern Region in Sutton Park station. The vehicles are almost certainly E50147 + E59053 + E59046 + E50146 which were listed as new to South Gosforth on 9 November 1956. Note the white disks in the two lower outer marker lamps. Metropolitan Cammell.

Class 101 DMU at Edinburgh Waverley

25th August 1978

SC50147, a recent transfer to the ScR from South Gosforth, leaving Edinburgh Waverley on 25/08/78. Steve Jones.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: March 1976

A four-car Class 101 DMU departs from Newcastle (Central) with a Middlesbrough service in March 1976. Closest is possibly 51511, the other vehicles would be 59043 + 59050 + 50147. Hugh Llewelyn.

DMU

Date: 4th November 1985

Set number: 101316

3-car class 101 DMU set no. 101 316 (51242+59071+53147) sits in the single platform at North Berwick waiting to form train 2Y13 the 17.04 to Edinburgh Waverley on 04/11/85. Adrian Nicholls.