Vehicle 59577
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-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
| 16/10/78 | Transferred to | ED (Eastfield) | |
| 2w/e 11/11/78 | Transferred to | DE (Dundee) | |
| 05/06/81 | Stored S. | DE (Dundee) | |
| 22/08/81 | Stored S. | MH (Millerhill) | |
| 30/09/81 | Withdrawn |
Notes
Summer 1981 - On ScR the three remaining Class 111 trailer seconds 59574/7/8 were placed in store during the late summer 1981 and were seen at Millerhill during November 1981.
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51438 | 59530 | 59577 | 51508 | Transfer to South Gosforth - 3w/e 04/06/60 | |||||
| N423 | 50141 | 59082 | 59577 | 50189 | Noted 07/01/75 - in Newcastle Central, set number only on 50141 + 590811 | ||||
| N403 | 50141 | 59577 | 59081 | 50189 | Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number only on 501891 | ||||
| 50141 | 59577 | 59081 | 50189 | Noted 03/04/76 - on Darlington depot1 | |||||
| 51224 | 59577 | 50146 | Transfer to DE - 2w/e 11/11/78 | ||||||
| 101303 | 50292 | 59577 | 50184 | Noted circa 03/19812 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn
Images:
March 1979
Met-Camm buffet car SC59577 at Haymarket depot in March 1979. Alan Rintoul.
28th August 1979
Met-Camm ex-buffet SC59577 departing from Edinburgh Waverley in a set which also has bubble 55000. 28th August 1979. Basil Hancock.
1st September 1979
Built as a buffet car - Met Camm centre car SC59577 is seen at Dundee on 1 September 1979 between a Class 101 DMBS and what is thought to be Class 122 SC55000. Brian Daniels.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 31st August 1975
A Darlington - Shildon "Cavalcade 150" Special at Heighington on 31 August 1975. Leading is a Class 108 four-car formed 50633 + 59245 + 59388 + 50644, followed by a four-car Class 101 with 50141 + 59577 visible, and a three-car Class 101 on the rear. Hugh Llewelyn.
Date: 14th August 1981
Class 122 bubbles 55007 and 55011 with Met-Camm buffet 59577 in-between pass along the loop at Dundee ready to form the 15:25 to Arbroath on 14 August 1981. Stuart Mackay Collection.