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Vehicle 50141 / 53141

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

17/10/56	New to	South Gosforth
Feb-64	Depot code change	52J
May-73	Depot code change	GF
29/05/77	Transferred to	DE (Dundee)
01/03/82	Transferred to	ED (Eastfield)
circa Aug-82	Transferred to	HA (Haymarket)
09/01/88	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
Oct-88	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
p/e 07/10/89	Sector Change to	NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ
08/12/89	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50141 - original number
53141 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 26/10/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50140	59043	59050	50141	As delivered to South Gosforth - 17th October 1956
	50201	59043	59050	50141	Noted 20/07/62 - in Newcastle Central
	50169	59096	59045	50141	Noted 20/08/69 - at Leeds¹
	50141	59096	59045	50144	Noted 07/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.²
	50141	59054	59045	50145	Noted 23/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.²
	50141	59526	59054	50177	Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle¹
	50141	59526	59054	50177	Noted 04/09/71 - at Middlesbrough¹
N423	50141	59082	59577	50189	Noted 07/01/75 - in Newcastle Central, set number only on 50141 + 59081³
N403	50141	59577	59081	50189	Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number only on 50189³
	50141	59577	59081	50189	Noted 03/04/76 - on Darlington depot³
	50141	59074	50184		Noted 08/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley²
	51232	59048	50141		Noted 11/09/1979 - Fife area⁴
	51231	59577	50141		Noted 06/04/1980 - in Thornton Junction CS⁴
308	51232	59066	50141		Listed at DE - 01/02/81
101308	51232	59066	50141		Listed at DE - 28/11/81
	51232	59066	50141		Noted 16th January 1982
	51232	59066	50141		Noted 10/04/1982 - on Eastfield depot⁴
101308	51232	59066	50141		Listed at ED - 13/06/82
101303	53292	59542	53141		Noted circa 11/1983²
101319	51245	59090	53141		Listed at HA - 17/06/84
	51245	59066	53141		Noted 02/09/1984 - at Edinburgh Waverley ⁴
101308	51232	59066	53141		Listed at HA - 25/03/85
101361	53172	59112	53141		Noted circa 10/1985²
101308	51232	59066	53141		Listed at HA - Summer 1986
101316	51242	59045	53141		Noted 14th July 1986
365	53141	59053	53245		Listed at HA - August 1986
101307	51231	59042	53141		Noted circa 11/1986²
101308	51232	59060	53141		Formation change - circa Dec-86 - 59060/6 exchanged between 101308/311
101308	51232	59060	53141		Listed at HA - 23/03/87
101307	51231	59688	53141		Noted 07/04/1987²
101308	51232	59060	53141		Noted 04/05/1987²
	51232	59060	53141		Transfer to HT - 09/01/88 - from HA
	51216	53141			Noted 16/07/88 - on 16:00 Newcastle - Hexham service⁵
	51216	53141			Noted 18/07/88 - on 14:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51216	53141			Noted 30/07/88 - on 15:15 Sunderland - Gateshead MetroCentre service⁵
	51216	53141			Noted 22/08/88 - on 08:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51216	53141			Noted 23/08/88 - on 11:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51216	53141			Noted 30/08/1988 - at Carlisle Citadel⁴
	51216	53141			Noted 03/09/88 - on 14:02 Gateshead Metro Centre - Sunderland service⁵
	53214	53141			Noted 03/11/88 - at Appleby
467	53214	53141			Listed at NL - Feb-89

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Gerald Brown
4: Martin Lumley
5: Graeme Phillips

Images:

22nd August 1980

Set number: 197

Two mixed-livery Class 101s pass through Princes Street Gardens after leaving Edinburgh Waverley with a Dundee service on 22 August 1980. Set 197 leads, probably SC50141 at the front. Its centre car is one of the Met-Camm buffets. Taken by HC Casserley. Stuart Mackay Collection.

24th February 1981

Set number: 101308

Foggy Day. Met-Camm DMU set 101308, with vehicles SC50141 + SC59066 + SC51232, near the fuelling point at Thornton Yard on 24 February 1981. They were noted as being kept there to ferry crews to and from Dunfermline Townhill depot. Stuart Mackay Collection.

6th October 1985

Set number: 101361

The 16:03 from Dunblane arrives into Falkirk Grahamston (which is undergoing 'modernisation'). The photographer notes the power cars as 53141 + 53172, and The centre car carries the HA depot 'castle' logo. Hamish Stevenson.

circa June 1986

Set number: 101307

101307 led by DMC Sc53141 passes through Princes Street Gardens - ca June 1986. The DMBS would presumably be Sc51231. Andrew McConnell.

circa May 1987

Set number: 101308

101308 (presumably 53141 closest) and 27025 are seen stabled at Dundee circa May 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.

1988

Set number: 101316

Many Met-Camm sets in the DMU sidings in Haymarket depot in 1988. Closest is 101316 (the DMC is presumably 53141), at the stops on the left is 53447. S Saunders.

29th April 1988

Set number: 101307

Poor availability of Class 143 Pacers due to failures of their gearboxes, led to a large influx of First Generation DMUs to Heaton depot, Newcastle, particularly from Autumn 1987, to maintain local services in the north-east. A number of Class 101s came from Scotland, and that is clearly the case for the rear car SC53141 in this view of a service passing South Bank, Cleveland, heading east towards Saltburn, on Friday 29/04/1988. Graeme Phillips Collection.

3rd November 1988

Set number: 101307

Sc53141 (still carrying it's last ScR set number) + 53214 at Appleby on November 3rd, 1988. John Carter.

12th September 1990

53141 at Snailwell on 12th September 1990. Many Scottish 101's got transferred to Heaton or Neville Hill (this went to HT then NH). Very little got changed to them as they were withdrawn not long after. Nicholas Youngman.

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: 31st August 1975

One of the DMU shuttles that ran from Darlington to Shildon for the Rail 150 Cavalcade on 31 August 1975. Helpfully, the November 1975 Railway Observer listed the formations of these shuttles and this one can be identified as, left to right, 59388 + 50644, 50141 + 59577 + 59081 + 50189 and 51439 + 59538 + 50143. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 1984

Set number: 407

This 1984 Haymarket depot view contain sets 407 (presumably Class 122 55007) and Met-Camm set 101317 (possibly 53141). S Saunders.

Date: 13th September 1988

Vehicles 51216 + 53141 form a two-car Class 101 DMU seen arriving into Shildon station on Tuesday 13 September 1988 with Saltburn on the destination blind. David Russon.

Date: 3rd November 1988

53214 + 53141 at Appleby on November 3rd, 1988. John Carter.

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