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: 30276
Diagram: 621
4w/e 19/04/58 | New to | 3E (Monument Lane) | |
Apr-58 | On loan to | 18A (Toton) | |
circa Jun-58 | Ex-loan back to | 3E (Monument Lane) | |
20/06/60 | Depot code change | 21E | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 2H | |
3w/e 31/10/64 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
11/09/65 | Transferred to | 16C (Derby Etches Park) | |
4w/e 05/11/66 | Transferred to | 2H (Monument Lane) | |
w/e 07/01/67 | Transferred to | 2A (Tyseley) | |
2w/e 18/03/67 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | |
06/05/73 | Depot code change | CH | |
3w/e 19/05/79 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
p/e 24/12/83 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
05/05/89 | Withdrawn from | CH (Chester) PCHX |
50337 - original number
53337 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
50319 | 59130 | 50337 | As delivered to 3E - April 1958 | ||||||
50319 | 59130 | 50337 | Transfer to 9D - 3w/e 31/10/64 | ||||||
50320 | 59131 | 50337 | Noted 11/05/73 - at Wolverhampton1 | ||||||
50320 | 59131 | 50337 | Noted 01/02/1977 - Worked 2D66 11.50 Wolverhampton to Chester2 | ||||||
TS405 | 50314 | 59127 | 50337 | Listed at TS - 12/08/79 | |||||
TS405 | 50314 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted circa 01/19812 | |||||
TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted circa 10/19812 | |||||
50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted 08/05/1982 - 50222-59127-50337 + 50320-59130-50330 Special train from Banbury to Spalding | ||||||
TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted 03/07/82 - at Norwich, DMBS in B/G, others in blue3 | |||||
TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted 26/09/82 - at Norwich3 | |||||
TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Listed at TS - Jan-83 | |||||
TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted circa 01/19832 | |||||
TS406 | 53222 | 59127 | 53337 | Listed at TS - 14/07/83 | |||||
53222 | 53337 | Noted circa 01/19842 | |||||||
53222 | 53337 | Noted circa 01/19862 | |||||||
53222 | 53337 | Noted 26/04/86 - on 10:50 Shrewsbury - Chester with 51911 + 54496 / 53938 + 544114 | |||||||
53222 | 53337 | Listed at Chester - Summer 1986 - Relief set | |||||||
53222 | 53337 | Noted circa 02/19872 | |||||||
290 | 53222 | 53337 | Noted 09/04/19882 | ||||||
CH290 | 53222 | 53337 | Listed at CH - May 1988 | ||||||
53222 | 53337 | Noted 21/05/88 - on 16:12 Manchester Piccadilly - Cardiff4 | |||||||
CH290 | 53222 | 53337 | Noted circa Jul-88 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Gerald Brown
4: Martin Baumann
47507 & M50337 at Worcester Shrub Hill on 01/10/79. Steve Jones.
M50337 (presumably with 59127 + 53222) at Worcester Shrub Hill on 01/10/79. Steve Jones.
Displaying 'Special' on the blinds, M53337 leads three two-car Class 101 sets (the other vehicles being M53222 + M51177 + M54351 + M51187 + M54322) at Stoke to form the 08:48 to Llandudno on 8/6/86. Hamish Stevenson.
Class 101 53337, carrying set number CH290, is running with 53318 when seen at Chester on 10 April 1989. Sparegang.
A fairly rare photo of a Park Royal formed into a (hybrid) 3-car set. 50406 is with Met Camm Class 101 vehicles 59131 & 50337,at Helsby on the 09:38 Runcorn - Chester service (date unrecorded). Notes on the back of the original photo record that 50406 replaced 50320 in the set, the latter being subsequently paired with 56080. Anthony Griffiths.
Metro-Cammell Class "101" Local Passenger 3-car dmu Nos.M50319 (101/2), M59130 (171), M50337 (101/1), of the 1958 batch without headcode panels, in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends, with a refurbished Class 101 in white and blue livery attached) on a Bath - Bristol Temple Meads - Weston supe Mare service at Chelvey, near Nailsea & Backwell, 08/78. Hugh Llewelyn.
The Class 101's to the right are M53318 (DMBS) and M53337 nearest. Vic Berry's on May 13, 1989. Nicholas Youngman.