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Vehicle 59108


Class 111

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30269
Diagram: 623

Allocations

23/01/58 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
w/e 30/04/67 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-73Depot code changeNL
15/05/83 Transferred to CH (Chester)
circa 1984 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
13/04/86 Transferred to CA (Cambridge)
27/04/86 Withdrawn from CA (Cambridge)

Notes

27th December 1987 - Seen in Tinsley Yard

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated circa 11/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50288 59108 50278 As delivered to 56G - 23rd January 1958
50288 59108 50278 Noted 05/08/66 - at Wakefield Kirkgate1
50288 59108 50278 Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1
50287 59108 50277 Noted 15/08/1970 - at York2
50287 59108 50277 Noted 29/08/70 - at York1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 04/06/71 - at Huddersfield1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 18/09/1971 - at Huddersfield3
50286 59108 50279 Noted 03/05/74 - at Cambridge4
50279 59108 Noted 29/08/74 - at York, third vehicle unrecorded4
50280 59108 50279 Noted 01/09/74 - at Leeds4
50286 59108 50279 Noted 09/09/1975 - at Doncaster 2
50286 59108 50279 Noted 09/01/76 - at Cambridge4
50286 59108 50275 Noted 27/02/76 - at Cambridge4
50275 59108 50286 Noted 06/03/76 - at Hull1
50275 59108 50286 Noted 22/03/76 - at Brough1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 05/01/77 - at Leeds1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 31/01/81 - at Doncaster
50169 59075 59108 50161 Noted circa 10/19825
51573 59108 51582 Noted 1983
50169 59075 59108 50161 Noted circa 02/19835
EP521 53720 59108 53677 Noted circa 12/19835
EP503 51573 59108 51582 Noted circa 01/19845
EP503 51573 59108 51582 Noted 13/09/85 - at Blaenau Ffestiniog, NH set carrying number EP503
51573 59108 51582 Noted 13/11/1985 - 13:21 Chester-Man Vic6
51573 59108 51582 Listed at NH - circa Jan-86

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

Images:

Class 111 DMU at Sheffield

March 1978

Met-Camm Class 111 TSL E59108 at Sheffield in March 1978. The seats are covered in Trojan moquette and it was allocated to Neville Hill. Stuart Mackay Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa January 1958

A scene that epitomises the early years of DMU travel in Yorkshire. A Rolls-Royce powered Metropolitan-Cammell 3-car unit with E50278 trailing stands in platform 1B at Huddersfield forming a service to Wakefield Kirkgate on a misty winter's day in the 'pre-whisker' era of the late-1950s, possibly shortly after delivery in January 1958 (to Hammerton Street). The other two vehicles are presumably 59108 + 50288. Gordon Edgar Collection.

DMU

Date: 18th April 1983

Set number: EP521

A Class 120 DMU with a Met-Camm centre car in Nottingham station on 18 August 1983. It is set EP521 with 53720 closest, the other two vehicles are presumably Class 111 59108 and 53677. Bill Fraser.

DMU

Date: 18th August 1983

Set number: EP521

53720 and presumably 59108 and 53677 are seen in Nottingham (Midland still on the platform lamp) station on 18 August 1983. Bill Fraser.

DMU

Date: 13th September 1985

Set number: EP503

EP503 contains M51582 + M59108 + M51573 when seen at Blaenau Ffestiniog on the 13th September 1985. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: 13th November 1985

A Class 120/101 hybrid, 51582/59108/51573 working the 13.21 Chester-Manchester Victoria, 13/11/85. Anthony Griffiths.

DMU

Date: 4th July 1988

Part of E54390 nearest then 59108, 55939 (M51582), 55934 (M51573), E54423, E54193 and pair of Class 20's. Seen near Kiln Lane Ely on July 4, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.