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Vehicle 50840 / 53840

Class 116

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30363
Diagram: 553

Allocations

4w/e 25/01/58	New to	88A (Cardiff Cathays)
Jan-61	Depot code change	88B
Mar-62	Depot code change	88M
Nov-64	Transferred to	86A (Cardiff Canton)
31/08/68	Transferred to	14A (Cricklewood)
06/05/73	Depot code change	CW
4w/e 28/07/79	Transferred to	TS (Tyseley)
22/03/87	Withdrawn from	TS (Tyseley)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50840 - original number
53840 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 23/10/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50840	59348	50893		As delivered to WR - 4w/e 25/01/58
CAT320	50840	50893			Listed at CAT - Jul-62 - and centre car
	50840	59348	50893		Transfer to 14A - 5w/e 05/10/68 - from WR
	50840	59348	50923		Noted 03/07/1976 - St Pancras¹
	50840	59008	50106		Noted 23/04/77 - on 14.02 Barking – Kentish Town and 14.44 Kentish Town – Barking²
	50101	59021	50840	50870	Noted 01/05/79 - on 16.05 St. Pancras – Luton²
TS557	50840	59348	50100		Listed at TS - 12/08/79 - running with 59131 until 59348 arrives
TS557	50840	59348	50100		Noted 29/10/1979 - Birmingham New Street¹
TS557	50840	59617	50100		Noted 15/06/1980 - on Tyseley depot¹
TS557	50840	59617	50100		Noted circa 01/1981³
TS557	50840	59617	50100		Noted circa 10/1981³
TS557	50840	59716	50100		Noted circa 05/1982³
TS557	50840	59716	50100		Listed at TS - Jan-83
TS557	50840	59009	50100		Noted circa 01/1983³
TS557	53840	59009	53100		Listed at TS - 14/07/83
TS557	53840	59609	53100		Noted circa 10/1983³
TS557	53840	59609	53100		Noted 06/01/1984 - at Birmingham New Street¹
TS506	53840	59612	53100		Noted circa 06/1984³
TS506	53840	59612	53100		Noted circa 10/1984³
TS506	53840	59612	53100		Noted 26/01/1985 - at Birmingham New Street ¹
TS506	53840	59612	53100		Noted circa 11/1985³
TS506	53840	59612	53100		Noted circa 02/1986³
TS506	53840	59612	53100		Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986

Formation Sources
1: Martin Lumley
2: Phil Shatford
3: Eddie Knorn

Images:

10th February 1985

Set number: TS506

Two of Tyseley's suburban 3-car units have just visited the fuelling point on 10/02/1985. They had pulled up to the bridge from which the picture was taken and will now move onto the carriage sidings and join the other units to the right of the yard. Closest is set TS506, 53840 and presumably 59612 + 53100, a 116/127/116 hybrid. Geoff Dowling.

10th February 1985

Set number: TS506

Having been serviced and fuelled 2 three car sets are about to move onto the carriage sidings at Tyseley on 10/02/1985, the leading car is 53840. To the left is the mound of scrap indicating the rail connected business of Allan Rowland metals, today his board still faces Tyseley station although the yard has been closed for many years. The station is as it was before it was became faux GWR on it's last refurbishment when the platform gained ridiculous flower planters that nobody maintains and are a magnet for litter. The dark line in front of the train is a shadow of a lamp post, lengthy in the low winter sun. Geoff Dowling.

8th March 1986

Set number: TS506

This class 116 at Stourbridge Junction is TS506 (presumably 53840 + 59612 + 53100), making the journey from Birmingham New Street to Kidderminster on 8 March 1986. Despite the frequency of passenger trains on this route and the relatively large number of trains from the Bescot to Stourbridge freight line, the Down Goods Loop wouldn't have seen a huge amount of use. This was because anything from the fright line needing to have been held would simply have waited at Stourbridge North Junction. Freights from the Old Hill line, although fewer in number, may well have been turned inside here although the coating of rust on the rails suggests that this wasn't a daily occurrence. I also think than ECS workings, especially when the single coach set used on the Stourbridge Town shuttles was swapped for fuelling and maintenance at Tyseley, would have been routed along the loop to await a path across the main lines to the sidings. Peter Tandy.

14th February 1987

Class 116 DMBS 53840 at Tyseley TMD on the 14th February 1987. S Gaskell.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 25th August 1979

Set number: TS557

Making a spirited climb of the Lickey Bank is one of Tyseley's 3 car class 116 units although the centre car is a newly painted class 101 Metro-Cammell coach - set TS557, presumably 50100 + 59131 + 50840. The passengers are enjoying a fine view from the front windows as they head towards Blackwell at the summit of the climb. The unit, which started from Worcester, has Four Oaks on the blind although I do not remember services from Worcester going beyond Birmingham New Street. 25/08/1979. Geoff Dowling.

Date: 1987

An unknown Mat-Camm at Vic Berry's in 1987. On the right is Class 116 53840. Ian Francis.

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