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Vehicle 50254 / 53254


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: 30266
Diagram: 523

Allocations

26/08/57 New to 51A (Darlington)
2w/e 08/04/61 On loan to 56G (Hammerton Street)
2w/e 11/11/61 Ex-loan back to 51A (Darlington)
3w/e 02/03/63 Transferred to 56G (Hammerton Street)
w/e 30/04/67 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
24/08/69 On loan to 66C (Hamilton)
07/09/69 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
4w/e 02/10/69 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
2w/e 30/04/72 Transferred to 62B (Dundee) - Leith depot closed
Jan-73 Transferred to 65A (Eastfield)
May-73Depot code changeED
w/e 07/10/78 Transferred to DE (Dundee)
01/03/82 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
circa Aug-82 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
Jul-87 Withdrawn from HA (Haymarket)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50254 - original number
53254 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 17/03/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50254 50264 As delivered to 51A - 26th August 1957
50254 50264 Transfer to 56G - 2w/e 08/04/61
50254 50264 Transfer to 51A - 2w/e 11/11/61
50254 50264 Transfer to 56G - 3w/e 02/03/63
50254 50264 Noted 05/09/66 - at Leeds City1
50254 50168 Noted 07/10/67 - at Leeds City1
50254 59527 50264 Noted 07/09/68 - at York1
50254 50264 Noted 20/08/69 - at Leeds1
50254 59568 50264 Transfer to 65A - Jan-73
50254 59568 50264 Noted 17/04/73 - in Glasgow Queen Street2
50254 59560 50264 Noted 14/09/73 - in Glasgow Queen Street1
50254 59561 51463 Noted 17/04/1975 - at Dundee3
50254 56291 51532 Noted 30/03/1977 - 08:45 Springburn to Cumbernauld service3
180 50254 59560 51253 Noted 13/08/77 - at Haymarket, white and blue set2
50254 59560 51253 Noted 24/09/77 - on 1259 Dunblane-Edinburgh
180 50254 56390 50748 Listed at ED - mid-May-78
51462 59048 50254 Noted 07/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley4
199 50254 59303 50144 Noted 26/08/1979 - BLS Tayside Railtour
301 50254 59305 50144 Listed at DE - 01/02/81
101301 50254 59305 50144 Listed at ED - 13/06/82
101301 53254 59048 53187 Noted 30/11/1983 - at Edinburgh4
101301 53254 59305 53144 Listed at HA - 17/06/84
101301 53254 59305 53144 Listed at HA - 25/03/85
101301 53254 59305 53147 Noted circa 02/19864
101301 53254 59305 53144 Listed at HA - Summer 1986
301 53254 59305 53147 Listed at HA - August 1986
101301 53254 59305 53147 Noted 4th August 1986
101301 53254 59053 53192 Noted 08/11/19864
51193 59566 53254 Noted 17/01/19874
101301 53254 59305 53144 Listed at HA - 23/03/87

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

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Aberdeen station

26th May 1973

A Class 101 runs through Aberdeen station with SRA/SLS branchline special on 26 May 1973. The power cars are 50254 (closest) and 50264. John McIntyre.

Class 101 DMU at Brechin

26th August 1979

Set number: 199

On 26 August 1979 the Branch Line Society ran a tour from Dundee to Brechin. This line closed to passengers in 1952 and eventually to all traffic in 1981. In 1993 a small section of the line at the Brechin end opened as a preserved railway. I believe the formation of the train to have been 50254 + 59303 + 50144. Jeremy Chapter.

Class 101 DMU at Brechin

26th August 1979

Set number: 199

Class 101 (50254 + 59303 + 50144) at Brechin on 26 August 1979. The BLS ran the Tayside Railtour a last journey along the branch from Kinnaber Junction to Brechin which started from Dundee on a Sunday morning. Here we are at the buffers of what is now become Caledonian Railway Preservation Society's nicely restored station. Alistair Ness.

Class 101 DMU at Haymarket

25th April 1983

Set number: 101301

27017 rolls into Haymarket platform 2 with 2L40, the 12.17 Edinburgh to Dundee, as Met-Camm 3 car unit 101301 (presumably 50254 + 59305 + 53144), forming 2G17 11.38 Kirkcaldy to Edinburgh, waits to leave. 25th April 1983. Bruce Galloway.

Class 101 DMU at Snailwell

4th September 1988

Set number: 101301

DMC 53254 from 101301 and a batch of suburban vehicles at Snailwell on 4th September 1988. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 26th May 1973

A Class 101 is piped into Aberdeen Waterloo station with a SRA/SLS branchline special on 26 May 1973. Waterloo had ceased to be a passenger station over 100 years earlier but had continued as a freight depot. The power cars are 50264 and 50254. John McIntyre.

DMU

Date: July 1979

Set number: 199

Met-Camm set 199 arrives in the Fife station of Kinghorn in July 1979. 50144 leads, presumably with 59303 + 50254. Alan Rintoul.

DMU

Date: 26th August 1979

Set number: 199

The BLS ran the Tayside Railtour a last journey along the branch from Kinnaber Junction to Brechin which started from Dundee on a Sunday morning, 26 August 1979. Here the Class 101 DMU (50144 + 59303 + 50254) sits at the platform awaiting the return journey. The station is now part of the Caledonian Railway Preservation Society. Alistair Ness.

DMU

Date: 26th August 1979

Set number: 199

Met-Camm DMU 50144 + 59303 + 50254 at Brechin with the Branch Line Society 'Tayside Railtour' on August 26, 1979. Jeremy Chapter.