Vehicle 59339
Class 116
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30365
Diagram: 555
Allocations
| Dec-57 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Cathays) | |
| 11/12/59 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| Apr-60 | Transferred to | 81C (Southall) | |
| 31/10/60 | Transferred to | 84E (Tyseley) | |
| 01/01/63 | Boundary change | 84E | transferred from WR to LMR stock |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 2A | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | TS | |
| p/e 24/12/83 | Withdrawn from | TS (Tyseley) |
Refurbished
At Swindon Works dated 20/05/1977 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | As delivered to WR - December 1957 | ||||||
| TYS329 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Formed at TYS circa late 1960 - was CAT301 | |||||
| 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 01/04/69 - in Birmingham New Street1 | ||||||
| 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 28/09/1969 - Tyseley open day.2 | ||||||
| TY530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Listed at 2A - 16/08/70 | |||||
| 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 02/10/1971 - at Birmingham New Street3 | ||||||
| 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 19/05/72 - in Birmingham New Street1 | ||||||
| 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 25/02/73 - at Tyseley1 | ||||||
| 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 25/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street3 | ||||||
| 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 31/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street3 | ||||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 24/09/77 - at Nottingham4 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted circa 01/19785 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 01/07/1978 - Tyseley2 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 11/03/1979 - Tyseley2 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Listed at TS - 12/08/79 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 15/06/1980 - on Tyseley depot2 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted circa 01/19815 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted circa 10/19815 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted circa 05/19825 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted 14/12/1982 - on Tyseley depot, just back from Swindon Works2 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Listed at TS - Jan-83 | |||||
| TS530 | 50831 | 59339 | 50884 | Noted circa 01/19835 | |||||
| TS530 | 53831 | 59339 | 53884 | Listed at TS - 14/07/83 | |||||
| TS530 | 53831 | 59339 | 53884 | Noted circa 10/19835 | |||||
| TS530 | 53831 | 59339 | 53884 | Noted 21/11/1983 - at Birmingham New Street2 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Martin Lumley
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 17th March 1962
The photograph is taken from under the Camp Hill line looking towards Pershore Road bridge in Birmingham. The DMU is on what is now a road and it has just come under the bridge, to the right of it are the neglected sidings of Lifford canal branch wharf. This was taken on the occasion of a Birmingham University Railway and Inland Waterways Society special on 17th March 1962 by Peter Shoesmith. The Six Bells Junction website lists the vehicles as 50884 + 59339 + 50831. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
Date: 26th April 1969
Set number: TY530
A Derby suburban triple DMU (set TY530 50831 and presumably 59339 + 50884) in Spring Road station on 26 April 1969. John Horne Collection.
Date: July 1974
Set number: TY530
M50831 leads Tyseley-allocated Class 116 DMU set TY530 (presumably with 59339 + 50884) away from Wylde Green station in July 1974. Michael Mensing.
Date: May 1977
Set number: TS530
Refurbished Class 116 set TS530 (50884 and presumably 59339 + 50831) heads away from Langley Green station in late May 1977. Michael Mensing.
Date: May 1977
Set number: TS530
Refurbished Class 116 set TS530 (50884 and presumably 59339 + 50831) at Four Oaks in late May 1977. Michael Mensing.
Date: 19th August 1978
Set number: TS530
Class 116 set TS530 (M50884 at the front, presumably with 59339 + 50831) and a Class 101 set arrive into King's Norton station on August 19, 1978. Michael Mensing.