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Vehicle 50240 / 53240


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: 30263
Diagram: 619

Allocations

08/10/57 New to South Gosforth
3w/e 04/06/60 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-73Depot code changeNL
05/10/75 Transferred to BR (Bristol Bath Road)
02/05/76 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
w/e 23/05/76 Transferred to GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 04/09/77 Transferred to DN (Darlington)
w/e 10/02/80 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
Dec-83Depot code changeNC
12/05/85 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
11/05/86 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
06/07/86 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
28/09/86 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
03/05/87 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
04/10/87 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
02/10/88 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
09/03/89 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton) PCVX
21/09/89 Withdrawn from CF (Cardiff Canton) PZQZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50240 - original number
53240 - from Feb-85 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

circa Mar-87 - Leyland engines fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 16/05/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50240 59089 59095 50241 As delivered to South Gosforth - 8th October 1957
50240 59089 59095 50241 Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 11/06/60
50240 59065 59095 50245 Noted 12/08/1971 - at York1
50240 59065 59095 50245 Noted 28/08/1972 - at Scarborough2
50240 59065 59095 50266 Noted 01/09/72 - in Leeds City3
50240 59065 59095 50245 Noted 11/1974 - at Sheffield 2
50240 59065 59095 50245 Noted 03/01/75 - on Neville Hill depot4
50240 59065 59095 50245 Noted 24/08/75 - in Thornaby station4
50200 50240 Transfer to DN - w/e 04/09/77
92 50240 59052 50750 Noted 22/05/80 - at Norwich4
92 50240 59057 50750 Noted circa Jul-80
98 53191 59097 53240 Noted circa 03/19845
98 53240 59097 53142 Noted circa 04/19855
53240 59076 53162 Noted circa 02/19865
53750 59078 53240 Noted circa 09/19865
53261 59078 53240 Noted 29/09/19865
53261 59078 53240 Noted 13/10/19865
53294 53240 Noted circa 11/19875
51458 53240 Noted 29/05/88 - at Stanhope
53229 53240 Noted 25/06/88 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service6
53229 53240 Noted 28/06/88 - on 18:40 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service6
51467 53240 Noted 16/07/88 - on 14:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service6
51467 53240 Noted 11/08/88 - on 14:09 Saltburn - Darlington service6
51467 53240 Noted 16/08/88 - on 19:20 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service6
51467 53240 Noted 23/08/88 - at Battersby Junction
53217 53240 Noted 10/09/88 - on 15:15 Sunderland - Gateshead MetroCentre service6
51449 53240 Noted 22/09/88 - on 16:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service6
53229 53240 Noted 24/09/88 - on 14:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service6
N660 51449 53240 Noted 11/03/89 - at Swansea Carriage sidings
C988 51449 53240 Listed at CF - 15/05/89

Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Graeme Phillips

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Stanhope

29th May 1988

E53240 + E 51458 at Stanhope on May 29, 1988, the first summer that these Sunday trains up to Stanhope. A connecting Weardale bus allowed further travel up the dale as far as Alston. It was only in the first year that first generation DMUs were used. Stanhope station is happily restored as a heritage station on the Weardale Railway. John Carter.

Class 101 DMU at Battersby Junction

23rd August 1988

Metro-Cammell class 101 units 51217-51515 (on the right) forming a Whitby service and 53240-51467 (left) forming a Middlesbrough service at Battersby Junction on 23rd August 1988. Gordon Edgar.

Class 101 DMU at Battersby

23rd August 1988

The peace of Battersby station is momentarily disturbed as Whitby and Middlesbrough Esk Valley services briefly meet and reverse. On 23rd August 1988, Metropolitan-Cammell Class 101 two-car units 53240 - 51467 and 51217 - 51515 form Middlesbrough and Whitby-bound services respectively. The surviving NER 1907-built water crane is a remarkable survivor. Gordon Edgar.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 24th March 1982

50178 + 59097 + 50240 at Ely. Phil Bidwell.

DMU

Date: 29th May 1988

Set number: 101332

101 332 (51458 + 53240) at Stanhope on May 29, 1988, the first summer of the Sunday extension of the Bishop Auckland service to Stanhope. Also the only summer when first generation DMUs were used. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 29th May 1988

Set number: 101332

E51458 + E53240 at Stanhope on May 29, 1988. On summer Sundays from 1988-92 a number of Saltburn to Bishop Auckland trains were extended to Stanhope over the normally freight only route to Eastgate in Weardale. At Stanhope a Weardale Motor Services bus met the train and went to Alston where there was time for a ride on the narrow gauge South Tynedale Railway. The trains stopped when the line lost it's last freight trains, the cement traffic from Eastgate. The station has been completely rebuilt as part of the Weardale Railway. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 23rd August 1988

Simultaneous arrivals are commonplace at principal rail termini, but such an occurrence was hardly expected at the remote outpost of Battersby. During the early evening of 23rd August 1988, the smartly dressed signal lady is poised to accept the single-line token from the arriving Whitby to Middlesbrough service, formed of Class 101 units 51467 - 53240, whilst arriving right on cue from Middlesbrough is the Whitby service, formed of Class 101 units 51515 - 51217. Rather sadly, the 1902-built NER Type C2b signal box was to close almost one year later, on 20th August 1989, when control was transferred to Nunthorpe signal box. Gordon Edgar.

DMU

Date: 23rd August 1988

Metro-Cammell class 101 unit 51217-51515 forming an afternoon Middlesbrough - Whitby 'Esk Valley' service departs from Battersby Junction on 23rd August 1988. Unit 53240-51467 stands in the station forming a Whitby - Middlesbrough service. Gordon Edgar.

DMU

Date: 23rd August 1988

Simultaneous early evening arrivals at Battersby Junction and a rather well-dressed and certainly busy signal lady, 23rd August 1988. On the left 51515-51217 arriving from Middlesbrough, and on the right 51467-53240 arriving from Whitby. Gordon Edgar.

DMU

Date: 11th March 1989

Set number: N660

51449 makes a return to South Wales with 53240, seen in Swansea Carriage sidings on 11/3/89. Once a Cardiff vehicle in set C802, 51449 had returned to the Western Region after a period working from Heaton and Newton Heath depots. Mac Winfield.

DMU

Date: August 1989

Set number: 988

A two-car Class 101 DMU with set number (C)988 (51449 and presumably 53240) sees arriving at Radyr in August 1989. Image by John Wiltshire. Peter Brabham Collection.