Vehicle 59090
Class 101
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30264
Diagram: 622
Allocations
| 15/10/57 | New to | South Gosforth | |
| 3w/e 04/06/60 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 3w/e 24/11/62 | On loan to | 17A (Derby Etches Park) | |
| 3w/e 29/12/62 | Ex-loan back to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 25/05/68 | Transferred to | South Gosforth | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
| 25/12/77 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
| Jan-81 | Transferred to | DE (Dundee) | |
| 01/03/82 | Transferred to | ED (Eastfield) | |
| circa Jul-82 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
| 11/08/82 | Transferred to | ED (Eastfield) | |
| 18/08/82 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
| May-85 | Transferred to | AY (Ayr) | |
| 11/07/88 | Transferred to | ED (Eastfield) | |
| p/e 10/11/90 | Sector Change to | ED (Eastfield) PXXZ | |
| 27/11/90 | Withdrawn from | ED (Eastfield) PXXZ |
Notes
02/02/82 - 101 304 (51224 + 59090 + 50241) was hauled north from Derby by 31 195 on 2 February 1982.
2nd April 1986 - Seen in Strathclyde orange & black livery
Refurbished
At Glasgow Works dated 30/04/1982 released in blue/grey liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50242 | 59090 | 59096 | 50243 | As delivered to South Gosforth - 15th October 1957 | |||||
| 50242 | 59090 | 59096 | 50243 | Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 11/06/60 | |||||
| 50242 | 59090 | 59096 | 50243 | Transfer to 17A - 3w/e 24/11/62 - on loan | |||||
| 50242 | 59090 | 59096 | 50243 | Transfer to 55H - 3w/e 29/12/62 - ex-loan LMR | |||||
| 50229 | 59090 | 59576 | 51510 | Noted 12/08/1971 - at York1 | |||||
| 50229 | 59576 | 59090 | 51510 | Noted 11/1974 - at Newcastle 2 | |||||
| 50229 | 59090 | 59576 | 50197 | Noted 24/08/75 - in Newcastle Central3 | |||||
| 50229 | 59090 | 59576 | 50197 | Noted 06/09/75 - at Darlington4 | |||||
| 50229 | 59090 | 59574 | 51510 | Noted 28/03/1977 - at Carlisle2 | |||||
| 51235 | 59090 | 50245 | Noted 29/08/1979 - 0n 13:22 Dundee to Edinburgh2 | ||||||
| 304 | 51224 | 59090 | 50241 | Listed at DE - 01/02/81 | |||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 50241 | Noted circa 02/19825 | |||||
| 51224 | 59090 | 50241 | Noted 02/02/82 | ||||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 50241 | Listed at ED - 13/06/82 | |||||
| 51224 | 59090 | 50241 | Transfer to ED - 11/08/82 | ||||||
| 51224 | 59090 | 50241 | Transfer to HA - 18/08/82 | ||||||
| 101319 | 51245 | 59090 | 53141 | Listed at HA - 17/06/84 | |||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 53241 | Listed at HA - 25/03/85 | |||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 53241 | Transfer to AY - May-85 - from HA | |||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 53241 | Noted circa Jul-85 - now in SPTE livery | |||||
| 51224 | 59090 | 52025 | Noted 2nd April 1986 | ||||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 53241 | Listed at Ayr - Summer 1986 - Strathclyde livery | |||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 52020 | Noted 5th June 1986 | |||||
| 53210 | 59090 | 53598 | Noted 17th July 1986 | ||||||
| 53210 | 59090 | 53598 | Noted 31st July 1986 | ||||||
| 455 | 53210 | 59090 | 53598 | Listed at Ayr - August 1986 | |||||
| 53210 | 59090 | 53598 | Noted 6th September 1986 | ||||||
| 59090 | Noted 11/10/1986 - at Ayr Depot5 | ||||||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 53241 | Listed at AY - 23/03/87 | |||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 53241 | Listed at AY - Jan-88 | |||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 53241 | Listed at ED - circa August 1988 | |||||
| 101304 | 51224 | 59090 | 53241 | Noted circa 12/19895 | |||||
| 51224 | 59090 | 53241 | Noted 01/08/906 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Leonard Rogers
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Graeme Phillips
Images:
12th May 1991
Class 101 TSL 59090 and some Met-Camm bogies at Snailwell on 12th May 1991. Nicholas Youngman.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 10th October 1981
A Metro Cammell 3 car class 101 caught behind the turntable at Dundee depot on 10th October 1981. The two vehicles on the left appear to be 51224 and 59090. Bruce Galloway.
Date: 17th November 1985
Set number: 101
Class 101 set 53160 + 59090 + 51224 stabled in Haymarket depot on the 17th November 1985. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: 1986
Set number: 455
Hybrid DMU set 455 (53598 + 59090 + 53210) departs from Shotts station with the 09:32 Glasgow Central - Edinburgh service on an unknown date in 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 23rd July 1986
Set number: C300
53122 leads C300 (presumably with 59090 + 53080) approaching Radyr station with an ECS for Cardiff on 23 July 1986. Image taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 29th July 1986
Set number: 104455
Class101 DMBS 53210 is seen having just arrived on the Ayrshire side of Glasgow Central Station on the 29th July 1986. Formally allocated to Norwich MPD she still carries her 86 depot number at the top of her centre cab window. Class 101 TSL 59090 forms the centre car in Strathclyde red and black livery with Class 104 53598 bringing up the rear. Together they formed Scottish Region Set No. 104455. All had been scrapped by August 1989 Bob Woolnough.
Date: 30th August 1986
Set number: 455
BRCW Class 104 DMBS 53598 is the trailing power car in mixed Set 455 seen here leaving Prestwick station in August 1986. The wires are in place for the Ayrshire electrification which would go live the following month. The centre car is a Metro-Cammel vehicle (59090). A typically mixed set in the final fling of the DMU in Scotland. Andrew McConnell.
Date: September 1986
Set number: 455
Indian summer of the DMU in Ayrshire. Set 455 (presumably 53598 + 59090 + 53210) works with a Class 120 set at Ayr station in September 1986. Andrew McConnell.
Date: 15th September 1986
Kilwinning on the afternoon of 15/9/86 with a mixed cl.101/104 set (53210/59090/53598) leaving on the 16.09 to Glasgow (15.45 ex-Ayr). Note the mix of liveries on this Ayr set, which, typically for this time, is a real mish-mash of whatever the depot could cobble together. So, the leading DMBS in blue and grey is recently arrived from Hull, the class 101 trailer is in Strathclyde colours and the class 104 DMBS at the rear, a Newton Heath cast-off, is in plain blue. Leonard Rogers.
Date: unknown
Set number: 101304
101304 (51224 + 59090 + 53241) seen in Glasgow Central circa 1988/9. Andrew McConnell.
Date: unknown
Set number: 101304
101304 (53241 + 59090 + 51224) seen in Glasgow Central circa 1988/9. Andrew McConnell.
Date: 31st May 1988
Set number: 304
Class 101 set 304 in Strathclyde PTE orange, consisting of vehicles 53241 (front) + 59090 + 51224, at Edinburgh Waverley station on 31st May 1988. Photograph by my Dad, David Slack. Uploaded by Andrew Slack David Slack.
Date: March 1990
Set number: 101304
101304 (53241 closest, presumably with 59090 + 51224) at Dunblane in March 1990. Colin Brooks.