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Set TS553

These formations have been noted:

50818 59326 50878 Listed at TS - 12/08/79
50818 59326 50878 Noted circa 01/19811
50818 59326 50878 Noted circa 10/19811
50818 89326 50878 Noted circa 05/19821
50818 59326 50878 Listed at TS - Jan-83
53818 59326 53878 Listed at TS - 14/07/83
53818 59326 53878 Noted circa 10/19831
53818 59606 53878 Noted circa 03/19841
53058 59606 53878 Noted circa 04/19841
53818 59606 53878 Noted 17/04/19841
53058 59606 53878 Noted circa 05/19841
55000 59606 53878 Noted circa 10/19841
53849 59606 53878 Noted circa 10/19841

Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn

Class 116 DMU at University

7th July 1984

TS553, with presumably 53878 closest, at University, Birmingham on 07/07/84. Steve Jones.

Class 116 DMU at Leamington Spa

11th October 1984

Tyseley DMU set TS553 sits in the platform at Leamington Spa. The vehicles are presumably 53878 (116), 59606 (127) and 55000 (122). Nicholas notes: Leamington had a tendency to run the empty stock 3 car DMU of a Moor St set and the Stratford bubble out onto the up main toward Fenny when a xcountry was due, and then separately use a shunt disc to bring them in behind the express - providing a same platform interchange instead of the subway. This is not allowed any more - Call Ons 'are for joining' and shunts onto occupied passenger trains are somewhat discouraged - except where there's a third rail - despite stairs being easily the worst passenger hazard. In those days, the up bay wasn't signalled for Main move down departures so the bubble had to shuffle across anyway. Nicholas T Smith.


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