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Vehicle 59573


Class 111

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30615
Diagram: 625

Allocations

3w/e 04/06/60 New to 55H (Neville Hill)
3w/e 04/06/60 Transferred to South Gosforth
Feb-64Depot code change52J
May-73Depot code changeGF
22/09/75 Withdrawn from GF (South Gosforth)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51435 59523 59573 51505 Transfer to South Gosforth - 3w/e 04/06/60
51439 59539 59573 50142 Noted 08/09/66 - at York1
51437 59526 59573 51507 Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1
51438 59573 51506 Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle1
N414 51506 59046 59573 Noted 29/08/74 - at Darlington, other power car unrecorded, set number on solebar of 515062
51438 59573 51506 Noted 11/1974 - at Newcastle 3
51438 59573 59046 51506 Noted 24/08/75 - in Newcastle Central2
51990 59573 52020 Noted 05/04/1976 - at Glasgow Central 3

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa March 1960

An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative DZ224) showing E51550 + E59573 and presumably E51560 on a test run at Aldridge. Of note is that records show the power cars went new to 56G on 08/03/60, the buffet car went new to 50B but not until May 1960. Metropolitan Cammell.

DMU

Date: 31st August 1975

E50239 leads a twelve-car Met-Camm formation at Shildon 31 August 1975. These shuttles on the day of the 150th cavalcade ran to Darlington, and the November 1975 edition of The Railway Observer (p351) lists this formation as 50239 + 59087 + 59094 + 51505 / 50295 + 56075 / 51438 + 59573 + 59086 + 51506 / 56083 + 51209. Stuart Mackay Collection.