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Vehicle 59022


Class 116

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30212
Diagram: 555

Allocations

Jun-57 New to 84E (Tyseley)
01/01/63Boundary change84Etransferred from WR to LMR stock
Sep-63Depot code change2A
May-73Depot code changeTS
p/e 10/07/83 Withdrawn from TS (Tyseley)

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 27/01/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50072 59022 50114 As delivered to WR - June 1957
TY522 50066 59022 50103 Noted circa Jun-69
TY522 50066 59022 50103 Listed at 2A - 16/08/70
50066 59022 50103 Noted 02/10/1971 - at Tyseley depot1
50066 59022 50103 Noted 19/10/71 - at Church Road, Edgbaston2
TS522 50066 59022 50103 Noted 04/07/1975 - at Solihull3
TY522 50066 59022 50103 Noted 23/08/75 - in Tyseley station4
TS522 50066 59022 50103 Noted 08/09/76 - at Tyseley4
50066 59022 50103 Noted 14/09/1977 - at Solihull3
TS522 50078 59022 50119 Noted circa 01/19785
TS522 50078 59022 50109 Noted 01/08/78
TS522 50078 59022 50109 Listed at TS - 12/08/79
TS522 50078 59022 50109 Noted circa 01/19815
TS522 50078 59022 50109 Noted circa 10/19815

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

Images:

Class 116 DMU at Kidderminster

7th August 1976

A Class 116 DMU with centre car 59022 heads away from Kidderminster on 7 August 1976. Michael Mensing.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 1970

Set number: TY522

Class 116 DMU set TY522 (presumably 50103 + 59022 + 50066) is seen on the North Warwick line at Tyseley sometime in 1970. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: May 1974

Set number: TY522

Class 116 set TY522 (presumably 50066 + 59022 + 50103) at Chester Road station heading for Lichfield City in June 1974. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 7th August 1976

A Class 116 DMU (centre car is 59022) heads away from Kidderminster station on 7 August 1976. Another 116 set and a 101 are stabled in the sidings. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 20th April 1978

A publicity image (Central Photographic Unit negative W8378-5) showing many DMUs on Tyseley depot on 20 April 1978. Most are 116s, in the distance is a 101 and to its left a 116 with 101 centre car and a 120 behind. The only identifiable vehicle is 59022 on the left of the frame. British Rail.

DMU

Date: 1st August 1978

Set number: TS522

Class 116 set TS522 (M50078, M59022, M50109) with the 16:41 Birmingham Moor Street service at Stratford-upon-Avon on August 1st, 1979. Met-Camm 50312 is on the left. John Carter.