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Vehicle 59060


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30257
Diagram: 623

Allocations

28/01/57 New to 51A (Darlington)
May-73Depot code changeDN
29/05/77 Transferred to DE (Dundee)
4w/e 22/07/78 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
Apr-80 Transferred to DE (Dundee)
01/03/82 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
18/05/82 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
07/09/86 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
4w/e 23/11/86 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
09/01/88 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
15/01/88 Withdrawn from HT (Heaton)

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 30/06/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50172 59060 59073 50173 As delivered to 51A - 28th January 1957
50173 59073 59060 50172 Noted 01/07/1957 - Hexham accident 01.07.1957 50173 destroyed in collision with steam loco 62029
50176 59075 59060 50189 Noted 29/08/70 - at York1
50170 59060 59084 50193 Noted 22/05/71 - at Leeds City1
50142 59060 59084 50193 Noted 31/08/71 - at York1
50193 59060 59084 50268 Noted 30/10/1971 - at York2
N450 50142 50984 59060 50182 Noted 29/08/74 - at Darlington, set number on solebars: 50142 N450, 59048 N458, 59060 N450, 50182 N4543
50192 59084 59060 50262 Noted 08/09/1975 - at darlington4
51235 59060 50174 Transfer to HA - 4w/e 22/07/78
202 51235 59060 51475 Noted 08/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley5
51235 59060 50174 Transfer to DE - Apr-80
311 51235 59060 50174 Listed at DE - 01/02/81
51234 59060 50174 Noted 16th January 1982
101311 51235 59060 50174 Transfer to HA - 18/05/82
101311 51235 59060 50174 Listed at ED - 13/06/82
53926 59060 51567 Noted 04/07/83 - at Monktonhall Junction1
101311 51235 59060 53174 Noted circa 03/19845
101317 51243 59060 53174 Listed at HA - 17/06/84
101311 51235 59060 53174 Listed at HA - 25/03/85
101309 51233 59060 53144 Noted circa 02/19865
101311 51235 59060 53174 Listed at Haymarket - Summer 1986
309 51233 59060 53746 Listed at Haymarket - August 1986
310 51234 59060 53746 Formation change - p/e 17/09/86
101308 51232 59060 53141 Formation change - circa Dec-86 - 59060/6 exchanged between 101308/311
51244 59060 51198 Noted 17/01/19875
51244 59060 53197 Noted circa 03/19875
101308 51232 59060 53141 Listed at HA - 23/03/87
51232 59060 53189 Noted circa 04/19875
101308 51232 59060 53141 Noted 04/05/19875
51232 59060 53141 Transfer to HT - 09/01/88 - from HA

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 7th June 1983

Set number: 358

M51567, Sc59060 & M53926 at Dunfermline, Tuesday 7th June 1983, about to depart with the 19:47 Edinburgh Waverley – Cowdenbeath service. I considered this unusual during a visit to Scotland in June 1983, a 3 car DMU comprising two Class 108 motor cars (on loan from Chester) sandwiching a Metro Cammell trailer. What made it unusual was the centrally mounted headlamp on both motor cars which indicated that they had come from those sets so equipped to work the Central Wales Line. At this time the station nameboards simply read “Dunfermline” but the platform lamps confusingly still showed the station’s former name of “Dunfermline Lower”. Nowadays the station is known as “Dunfermline Town”. The local council, having devoted considerable energy in changing every road sign from “Town Centre” to “City Centre”, requested that the station be renamed “Dunfermline City”, which was abandoned as the cost pr Brian McDevitt.

DMU

Date: 7th June 1983

Set number: 358

This shot of Set 358 was taken at Inverkeithing on the morning of Tuesday 7th June 1983. M53926 (with SC59060 + M51567) sets off on the climb to the Forth Bridge with the 08:38 Kirkcaldy – Edinburgh Waverley service. Brian McDevitt.

DMU

Date: 8th June 1983

Set number: 358

M53926, Sc59060 & M51567 at Kirkcaldy, Wednesday 8th June 1983 after working the 14:42 service from Edinburgh to Kirkcaldy and was returning to Edinburgh with the 15:38 service from Kirkcaldy. Brian McDevitt.

DMU

Date: 5th August 1986

Set number: 101310

Met-Camm DMU set 101310 (51234 + 59060 + 53746) departs from Uphall station with the 09:18 Edinburgh-Bathgate service on 5 August 1986. The centre car was a temporary replacement for the usual vehicle, note it has a shallower grey band. Stuart Mackay Collection.