Vehicle 59159
Class 104
Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30295
Diagram: 582
Allocations
The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 50451 during the unknown period are:
| w/e 05/10/57 | New to | 9A (Longsight) | |
| Jan-58 | Transferred to | 5D (Cockshute) | |
| 3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 2H (Monument Lane) | |
| 4w/e 05/11/66 | Transferred to | 16C (Derby Etches Park) |
Then the allocations for 59159 are:
| w/e 01/05/77 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
| Jan-81 | Withdrawn from | NH (Newton Heath) | |
| Feb-81 | Reinstated | HA (Haymarket) | |
| 29/06/81 | Withdrawn from | HA (Haymarket) |
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50451 | 59159 | 50503 | As delivered to 9A - w/e 05/10/57 | ||||||
| 50794 | 59159 | 50799 | Noted 09/08/68 - at Brandon (Suffolk)1 | ||||||
| 50444 | 59159 | 50495 | Noted 27/09/69 - at Leicester1 | ||||||
| 50445 | 59159 | 50499 | Noted 07/11/71 - in Birmingham New Street2 | ||||||
| 50450 | 59159 | 50500 | Noted 18/08/1972 - at Derby3 | ||||||
| 50445 | 59159 | 50496 | Noted 05/03/1976 - at Loughborough3 | ||||||
| 50451 | 59159 | 50490 | Noted 06/01/19783 | ||||||
| 105374 | 50782 | 59159 | 50789 | Noted March 1981 | |||||
| 50782 | 59159 | 50789 | Noted 15/03/81 - on Haymarket depot2 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Peter Wallwork
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 21st September 1969
An Etches Park allocated BRC&W triple DMU formed of M50444 + M59159 + M50495 arrives into Hinckley station, wrong line working, on Sunday 21 September 1969. Phillip Malin.
Date: October 1971
A BRC&W triple set passing Grantham North box in October 1971. The vehicles are noted as 50445 + 59159 + 50488 (although the latter was not a Derby based vehicle like the other two). Mel Smith.
Date: 15th March 1981
Class 105 sets at HA, 15th March 1981. Transferred to Haymarket from Newton Heath in February 1981 Sc50789 leads set 374, comprising 50782/59159 (a Class 104)/50789, at the west end of the depot. Its tenure here was short as it was withdrawn on 29th June of the same year. Note the Kilmarnock destination blind. Behind is 51477 in the blue/grey livery that was applied to a few of the cars. Bruce Galloway.
Date: 15th March 1981
At the west end of Haymarket depot on 15.3.81 sit two hybrid class 105 triples. On the left, freshly-outshopped from St Rollox in blue/grey and complete with ScR six-figure unit number (105 37x), is 51481/59567(cl.101)/51477, while further back, apparently on loan from Newton Heath, is 50782/59159(cl.104)/50789. See the comments in the caption to the photo of 55000 and others from the same occasion about the ScR's application of blue/grey to 105's. Notice too how the home-based unit contains two DMBS's : this was a result of the Region's policy in the 1970's of standardising on triples. Driving trailers from former two-car units of classes 101 and 105 were swapped with the Eastern Region for class 101 centre trailers and DMC's. However, this left the ScR with an excess of class 105 DMBS's which had to double up in triples for a while. Leonard Rogers.