Vehicle 50169 / 53169
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: 30255
Diagram: 620
Allocations
| 10/01/57 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
| 4w/e 01/08/64 | Transferred to | South Gosforth | |
| 4w/e 05/09/64 | Transferred to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
| Dec-67 | Depot code change | 55F | |
| 4w/e 25/05/68 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| May-71 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NO | |
| Sep-73 | Depot code change | NR | |
| w/e 18/10/75 | Transferred to | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 2w/e 22/02/76 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
| 27/05/84 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
| 11/05/86 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
| 03/05/87 | Transferred to | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 23/08/87 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
| 02/10/88 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
| 09/03/89 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) PWYX | |
| 14/05/89 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) PCFX | |
| 24/01/90 | Withdrawn from | CF (Cardiff Canton) PZQZ |
Notes
13/12/73 - noted as damaged on Cambridge depot
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50169 - original number
53169 - from 1984 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated 05/05/1976 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50165 | 50169 | As delivered to 56G - 10th January 1957 | |||||||
| 50165 | 50169 | Noted 19th January 1957 - arrived at Starbeck to start training runs between there and Poppleton | |||||||
| 50165 | 50169 | Transfer to South Gosforth - 4w/e 01/08/64 | |||||||
| 50165 | 50169 | Transfer to 56G - 4w/e 05/09/64 | |||||||
| 50157 | 50169 | Noted 16/05/1969 - Leeds, on 15.55 service to Harrogate1 | |||||||
| 50157 | 50169 | Noted 11/06/1969 - Leeds1 | |||||||
| 50169 | 59096 | 59045 | 50141 | Noted 20/08/69 - at Leeds2 | |||||
| 50169 | 59532 | 59093 | 51512 | Noted 04/10/1969 - Leeds, on RCTS Lincolnshire tour1 | |||||
| 50169 | 59086 | 59093 | 50190 | Noted 23/11/69 - at Leeds2 | |||||
| 50197 | 59241 | 59203 | 50169 | Noted 21/01/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||||
| 51548 | 59105 | 50169 | Noted 07/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||||
| 51543 | 59533 | 50169 | Noted 13/03/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||||
| 51546 | 59572 | 50169 | Noted 11/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59107 | 50169 | Noted 27/06/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||||
| 50237 | 59188 | 59216 | 50169 | Noted 27/10/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||||
| 50240 | 59097 | 50169 | Noted 11/12/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||||
| 50169 | 59097 | 50563 | Noted 18/12/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||||
| 50256 | 50169 | Noted 04/08/1971 - at Birmingham New Street4 | |||||||
| 50256 | 50169 | Noted 01/09/71 - at Norwich2 | |||||||
| 50256 | 50169 | Noted 02/09/71 - at Colchester on branch train to Sudbury2 | |||||||
| 50256 | 50169 | Noted 02/10/1971 - at Birmingham New Street5 | |||||||
| 50256 | 59542 | 50169 | Noted 20/05/73 | ||||||
| 84 | 50256 | 59542 | 50169 | Noted 16/06/73 - at Thetford6 | |||||
| 50256 | 59542 | 50169 | Noted 14/07/1973 - at Birmingham New Street5 | ||||||
| 50169 | 59523 | 50268 | Noted 06/04/1974 - at Birmingham New Street 4 | ||||||
| 84 | 50256 | 59523 | 50169 | Noted 27/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds6 | |||||
| 84 | 50256 | 59523 | 50169 | Noted 01/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds6 | |||||
| 84 | 50256 | 59540 | 50169 | Noted 16/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds6 | |||||
| 50256 | 59540 | 50169 | Noted 03/1975 - at Peterborough 4 | ||||||
| 84 | 50256 | 59540 | 50169 | Listed at NR - 19/07/75 | |||||
| 50256 | 59540 | 50169 | Noted 30/08/1975 - at Nottingham4 | ||||||
| 50161 | 59075 | 59306 | 50169 | Noted 09/07/1976 - Scarborough-Chester (8-car)7 | |||||
| 50161 | 59075 | 59306 | 50169 | Noted circa 01/19773 | |||||
| 50161 | 59306 | 59075 | 50169 | Noted 10/12/1977 - York8 | |||||
| 50161 | 59306 | 59075 | 50169 | Noted 19/08/1978 - Leeds8 | |||||
| 50161 | 59306 | 59075 | 50169 | Noted 31/08/1980 - at York8 | |||||
| 50161 | 59306 | 59075 | 50169 | Noted 20/09/1981 - on Botanic Gardens depot8 | |||||
| 50161 | 59306 | 59075 | 50169 | Noted 06/06/82 - at Skipton | |||||
| 50169 | 59075 | 59108 | 50161 | Noted circa 10/19823 | |||||
| 50169 | 59075 | 59108 | 50161 | Noted circa 02/19833 | |||||
| 50161 | 59101 | 59075 | 50169 | Noted 02/05/1983 - at York 8 | |||||
| 53161 | 59101 | 59075 | 53169 | Noted circa 06/1983 - Lancaster3 | |||||
| 53169 | 59075 | 59101 | 53161 | Noted circa 07/19833 | |||||
| 53161 | 59075 | 53169 | Noted 31/03/1984 - at Leeds City8 | ||||||
| 53294 | 53169 | Noted circa 03/19853 | |||||||
| 53169 | 59075 | 53161 | Noted 27/09/19863 | ||||||
| 53169 | 59075 | 53161 | Noted 31/10/19863 | ||||||
| 53161 | 59075 | 53169 | Noted 01/05/87 - at York6 | ||||||
| 53217 | 53169 | Noted circa 05/19883 | |||||||
| 51250 | 53169 | Noted 23/07/88 - on 14:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service9 | |||||||
| 53166 | 53169 | Noted 30/09/88 - on 07:00 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service9 | |||||||
| N659 | 51243 | 53169 | Noted circa 11/19883 | ||||||
| C995 | 51436 | 53169 | Listed at CF - 15/05/89 |
Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Jeremy Goodyear
6: Gerald Brown
7: Chris Moxon
8: Martin Lumley
9: Graeme Phillips
Images:
9th July 1976
An unusual photo showing a very long formation formed neatly of Class 101 & 108 vehicles all carrying the short lived refurbishment livery. The occasion was a schools special from Scarborough to Chester returning through Helsby, 9/7/76. The 8-car formation was 50169/59306/59075/50161, 56191/50619 & 51230/56369. Anthony Griffiths.
6th June 1982
Met-Camm four-car set E50169 + E59075 + E59306 + E50161 with a Dalesrail service in Skipton station on June 6th, 1982. John Carter.
27th May 1985
With plates over the top / centre marker light positions, 53169 is seen at Battersby on the 27th May 1985. Jerry Glover.
26th July 1986
A Class 101 DMU at Sheffield, 26/07/1986. DMS(L) 53169 was one of the more distinctive cars operating in the north of England in the 1980s, having a red buffer beam, Tyne & Wear PTE logo, plus the top and bottom centre lights on the cab front were not smoothed over as well as most others, leaving circular disc shapes Graeme Phillips Collection.
4th March 1987
A Class 101 formed of DMCL 53169, TBSL 59075, and DMCL 53161 is seen in Carnforth station with the 12.31 Leeds - Lancaster on 4 May 1987. Dave Warby Collection.
6th March 1987
A Class 101 DMU TBSL triple set, E53169 + E59075 + E53161, in Manchester Victoria on Friday 6 March 1987. David Russon.
2nd October 1987
DMS E53169 is seen in what was then Newcastle platform 11, with Brough on its destination blind, on 2/10/87. Below the driver's window can be seen the letters BG, the depot code for Hull Botanic Gardens, which at the time maintained a fleet of DMUs for East Yorkshire. In most cases, the top and bottom centre lights were smoothed away without a trace upon refurbishment, but this cab front exhibits the welded plates. Graeme Phillips Collection.
1990
Set number: 995
Although not seen, 53169 of C995 is still carrying a Tyne & Weir PTE motif on its bodyside showing its Heaton Traction origins, when seen at Cardiff Central in 1990. Mac Winfield.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 31st August 1976
M50356 (and presumably M56111) arrives at Stalybridge with the 14:30 from Stockport (with a tail lamp at this end? maybe changing platforms?) on 31 August 1976. On the left the 12:13 Scarborough-Liverpool Lime Street departs with refurbished liveried E50169 on the rear. Robert Thomas.
Date: 7th June 1981
E51841 and E50169 at Skipton on 7/6/81. John Carter.
Date: 23rd February 1988
Set number: P825
The new order for the Looe branch has just arrived at Liskeard station on 23 February 1988, ECS from Laira formed of recently transferred Class 101 Met-Cam power, and guards brake, twin E53165+E51246 running as set P825. Interestingly enough until being reallocated to Laira a few months ago, neither car had been based south of Leeds since new - over 30 years previous! Notice the sign pointing to the Buffet at the station exit - I can't believe Liskeard had a Buffet ... As E50165 it was new to Bradford Hammerton Street on 1 January 1957 together with its original partner E50169. Staying with the Eastern Region at GF, DN, and HT for over thirty years, it finally departed for pastures new on 21 November 1987 when it was reallocated to the Western Region at LA. Transferred away to LO on 24 May 1992, it was to last exactly a year before being taken out of traffic, with withdrawal coming almost a month later on 23 June 1993. It was scrapped by MC Metals at Springburn. Nigel Mack.