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Vehicle 59094


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30265
Diagram: 626

Allocations

01/10/57 New to South Gosforth
Feb-64Depot code change52J
May-73Depot code changeGF
2w/e 20/11/76 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
13/05/84 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
11/05/86 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
06/07/86 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
28/09/86 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 17/12/1976 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50238 59088 59094 50239 As delivered to South Gosforth - 1st October 1957
N411 50239 59087 59094 51505 Noted circa 19711
50177 59094 50267 Noted 24/08/74 - at Doncaster2
N411 50239 59087 59094 51505 Noted 24/08/75 - in Thornaby station, set number on all cars2
50239 59094 59087 51505 Noted 06/11/1976 - at Newcastle 3
50140 59087 59094 51514 Noted 31/12/76 - at Leeds4
50140 59087 59094 51514 Noted 05/01/77 - at Leeds4
50140 59087 59094 51514 Noted 30/07/78 - on Lancaster - Morecambe shuttle
51514 59087 59094 50140 Noted circa 10/19821
53140 59094 51514 Noted circa 01/19841
53183 59094 53235 Noted circa 02/19861
53632 59094 53750 Noted 29/09/19861

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 31st August 1975

E50239 leads a twelve-car Met-Camm formation at Shildon 31 August 1975. These shuttles on the day of the 150th cavalcade ran to Darlington, and the November 1975 edition of The Railway Observer (p351) lists this formation as 50239 + 59087 + 59094 + 51505 / 50295 + 56075 / 51438 + 59573 + 59086 + 51506 / 56083 + 51209. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: March 1976

Metro-Cammell Class "101" Local Passenger 4-car dmu Nos.E50238 (101/1), E59094 (168), E59088 (162), E50239 (101/1), all of the 1957 batch with 2-character headcode panel, in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends, leaving Middlesbrough on a service to Thornaby, Stockton, Billingham, West Hartlepool, Sunderland and Newcastle (Central), 03/76. Hugh Llewelyn.

DMU

Date: 30th July 1978

E50140 (+ E59087 + E59094 + E51514) sits beside M56251 (unseen are M50968 + M50955 + M56234) at Lancaster. The 101 is on the Lancaster - Morecambe shuttle, the 108 to Millom (Cumbrian coast), 30/7/78. Robert Frise.