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Vehicle 51217

Class 101

BR Diagram 523

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150 hp / Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30467
Diagram: 523

Allocations

02/10/58 New to South Gosforth
Feb-64Depot code change52J
Oct-68 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
w/e 16/11/75 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
20/05/84 Transferred to NC (Norwich)
05/04/87 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
04/10/87 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
21/10/89 Withdrawn from HT (Heaton) PZQZ

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 16/05/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51217 56375 As delivered to South Gosforth - 2nd October 1958
51217 56364 Noted 24/07/69 - at Cambridge1
51217 56371 Noted 18/09/70 - at Ely2
51217 56371 Noted 21/12/70 - at Norwich2
51217 56143 Noted 28/03/71 - at Ipswich with 51213 + 56434 forming an Ipswich - Clapham Jcn special3
51217 56432 Noted 03/09/71 - at Norwich2
76 51217 56383 Noted circa e1972 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56114 Noted circa mid-1972 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56315 Noted circa late 1972 - at Ipswich3
76 51217 56300 Noted circa e1973 - at Ipswich3
76 51217 56315 Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56380 Noted 17/05/73 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56380 Noted 16/06/73 - at Thetford1
76 51217 56380 Noted 02/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56380 Noted 14/03/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56380 Noted 30/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56365 Noted 30/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56365 Noted 08/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56365 Noted 01/02/75 - at Bury St Edmunds1
76 51217 56365 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
51217 56365 Noted 02/02/76 - at Brough2
51217 56380 Noted 06/03/76 - on Botanic Gardens depot2
51217 56393 Noted 10/04/76 - at Leeds2
51217 56393 Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds2
51217 56393 Noted 17/07/76 - at Brough2
51217 59531 51218 Noted 30/03/77 - at Brough (two DMBSs)2
51217 54364 Noted circa 10/19834
75 51217 54364 Noted 14/06/84 - at Norwich1
75 51217 54364 Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
75 51217 54364 Listed at NC - Dec-85
75 51217 54364 Noted 12/04/19864
75 51217 54364 Listed at Norwich - Summer 1986
75 51217 54364 Listed at NC - Apr-87
51217 59075 53263 Noted circa 11/19874
51217 53237 Noted 20/06/88 - on 15:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5
51217 53237 Noted 20/06/88 - on 16:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5
51217 53237 Noted 30/06/88 - on 17:10 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5
51217 53263 Noted 07/07/88 - on 16:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5
51217 53195 Noted 16/07/88 - on 19:20 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5
51217 53195 Noted 16/07/88 - on 17:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5
51217 51515 Noted 06/08/885
51217 53263 Noted 13/08/88 - on 12:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5
51217 53263 Noted 21/09/88 - on 06:32 Newcastle - Seaham service with 51467 + 531825
51217 53195 Noted 08/10/88 - on 13:35 Carlisle - Newcastle service5
51217 51522 Noted 12/11/88 - on 17:20 Newcastle - Sunderland - service5
51217 51522 Noted 17/11/88 - on 07:26 Newcastle - Seaham service5
51217 51522 Noted 24/11/88 - on 08:15 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5
51217 51522 Noted 26/11/88 - on 17:04 Newcastle - Durham service5
51217 51522 Noted 26/11/88 - on 12:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5
51217 51516 Noted 03/12/88 - on 14:32 Newcastle - Carlisle service5
51217 51516 Noted 22/12/88 - on 12:00 Hexham - Sunderland service5
51217 51515 Noted 14/01/895
51217 51515 Noted 21/01/89 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service5
51217 51515 Noted 24/01/89 - on 14:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5
51217 51515 Noted 28/01/89 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service5
51217 51515 Noted 04/02/89 - on 17:10 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5
51217 53182 Noted 11/03/89 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service5
51217 53182 Noted 11/03/89 - on 16:05 Hexham - Newcastle5
51217 53182 Noted 11/03/89 - on 17:20 Newcastle - Hexham service5
51217 53182 Noted 18/03/89 - on 15:15 Sunderland - Gateshead MetroCentre service5
51217 53182 Noted 18/03/89 - on 14:00 Hexham - Sunderland service5
51217 53182 Noted 18/03/89 - on 17:20 Newcastle - Sunderland - service5
51217 53182 Noted 25/03/89 - on 17:45 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5
51217 53182 Noted 01/04/89 - on 16:00 Newcastle - Sunderland - service5
51217 53182 Noted 03/04/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service5
51217 53182 Noted 22/04/89 - on 15:00 Hexham - Newcastle5
51217 53182 Noted 29/04/89 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service5
51217 54370 Noted 22/05/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service5
51217 54370 Noted 25/05/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5
51217 54370 Noted 03/06/89 - on 15:05 Hexham - Newcastle5
51217 54370 Noted 05/06/89 - on 18:20 Newcastle - Sunderland - service5
51217 54370 Noted 09/06/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5
51217 54370 Noted 10/06/89 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service5
51217 54370 Noted 12/06/89 - on 18:20 Newcastle - Carlisle service5
51217 54370 Noted 19/06/89 - on 19:00 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5
51217 54370 Noted 01/07/89 - on 10:30 Sunderland - Hexham service5
51217 54370 Noted 03/07/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5
51217 54370 Noted 08/07/89 - on 16:10 Newcastle - Alnmouth5
51217 54370 Noted 17/07/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5
51217 54370 Noted 19/07/89 - on 17:15 Sunderland - Newcastle service5
51217 54370 Noted 12/08/89 - on 17:10 Newcastle - Durham service5
51217 54370 Noted 14/08/89 - on 18:00 Newcastle - Sunderland - service5
51217 54370 Noted 15/08/89 - on 16:05 Gateshead Metro Centre - Sunderland service5
51217 54370 Noted 16/08/89 - on 17:55 Hexham - Newcastle5
51217 54370 Noted 17/08/89 - on 10:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5
51217 54370 Noted 19/08/89 - on 15:14 Newcastle - Carlisle service5
51217 54370 Noted 04/11/89 - on 17:55 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service with 51467 + 53257 / 51516 + 51203 hauled by 47 462, believed to be football extra.5

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Ipswich Transport Society
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Graeme Phillips

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Saltley

7th July 1984

51217 is the DMBS on this Class 101 set seen passing Saltley on it's way to Norwich on 07.07.1984. Andy Cole.

Class 101 DMU at Norwich

30th October 1984

Set number: 75

Class 101 numbers E51217 and E54364 are departing from Norwich Thorpe with the 1505 to Sheringham, Class 03 No 03158 is about to shunt the stock of a train which has just arrived from London Liverpool Street to release the train engine. Keith Long.

Class 101 DMU at Marks Tey

1st April 1985

Set number: 75

Class 101 DMU set 75 (51217 + 54364) arrives into Marks Tey station with a Sudbury service on 1 April 1985. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive Collection. David Page.

Class 101 DMU at Sudbury

1st April 1985

Set number: 75

Class 101 DMU set 75 (51217 + 54364) arrives into Sudbury station on 1 April 1985. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive Collection. David Page.

Class 101 DMU at Sudbury

1st April 1985

Set number: 75

Class 101 DMU set 75 (54364 + 51217) in Sudbury station on 1 April 1985. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive Collection. David Page.

Class 101 DMU at Felixstowe

10th August 1985

Set number: 75

51217 sits at the front of set 75 (presumably with 54364) in the very dilapidated station at Felixstowe on August 10, 1985. David Christie.

Class 101 DMU at Hitchin

28th May 1986

Set number: 75

Class 101 set 75 (presumably 51217 + 54364) arrives into Hitchin to form a 12:xx Hitchin - Peterborough service on Wednesday 28th May 1986. Colin Brooks.

Class 101 DMU at Battersby Junction

23rd August 1988

Metro-Cammell class 101 unit 51217-51515 forming an afternoon Middlesbrough - Whitby 'Esk Valley' service departs from Battersby Junction on 23rd August 1988. Unit 53240-51467 stands in the station forming a Whitby - Middlesbrough service. Gordon Edgar.

Class 101 DMU at Stockton

29th August 1989

31 458 is hauling 51217 + 54370 at Stockton on a Newcastle - Middlesbrough train on the 29th August 1989. Jerry Glover.

Class 101 DMU at Carlisle

31st August 1989

Class 47/4 47433 hauls dead DMU cars 51217 and 54370 at Carlisle with a local service to Newcastle on 31/08/89. This formation had been hauled around for at least a couple of days, so had not just failed. Acceleration with a Class 47 would have been brisk. Locomotive haulage of local services in the north-east were not uncommon through the 1980s, due to shortages of available DMUs, including failures of the then new Class 143 Pacers later in the decade. An influx of former Western Region Class 142s plus replacement of the troublesome SCG mechanical gearboxes with Voith hydraulic transmissions, from 1988, saw the eventual withdrawal of the last remaining Class 101s from the area in September 1989, although locomotive haulage of rakes of three coaches continued until 1990. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 101 DMU at Snailwell

25th September 1990

This Class 101 DMU E51217 had arrived at Snailwell from Heaton but was at one time allocated to Norwich depot. The set number 75 still noticed on the front window. 25th September 1990. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: July 1972

Set number: 76

Norwich Cravens set 76 (likely to be E56114 + E51217) leads a DMU formation into Birmingham New Street in July 1972. Alistair Ness.

DMU

Date: 1st April 1985

Set number: 75

Class 101 DMU set 75 (54364 + 51217) departs from Sudbury on 1 April 1985. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive Collection. David Page.

DMU

Date: 23rd August 1988

The peace of Battersby station is momentarily disturbed as Whitby and Middlesbrough Esk Valley services briefly meet and reverse. On 23rd August 1988, Metropolitan-Cammell Class 101 two-car units 53240 - 51467 and 51217 - 51515 form Middlesbrough and Whitby-bound services respectively. The surviving NER 1907-built water crane is a remarkable survivor. Gordon Edgar.

DMU

Date: 23rd August 1988

Simultaneous arrivals are commonplace at principal rail termini, but such an occurrence was hardly expected at the remote outpost of Battersby. During the early evening of 23rd August 1988, the smartly dressed signal lady is poised to accept the single-line token from the arriving Whitby to Middlesbrough service, formed of Class 101 units 51467 - 53240, whilst arriving right on cue from Middlesbrough is the Whitby service, formed of Class 101 units 51515 - 51217. Rather sadly, the 1902-built NER Type C2b signal box was to close almost one year later, on 20th August 1989, when control was transferred to Nunthorpe signal box. Gordon Edgar.

DMU

Date: 23rd August 1988

Metro-Cammell class 101 units 51217-51515 (on the right) forming a Whitby service and 53240-51467 (left) forming a Middlesbrough service at Battersby Junction on 23rd August 1988. Gordon Edgar.

DMU

Date: 23rd August 1988

Simultaneous early evening arrivals at Battersby Junction and a rather well-dressed and certainly busy signal lady, 23rd August 1988. On the left 51515-51217 arriving from Middlesbrough, and on the right 51467-53240 arriving from Whitby. Gordon Edgar.

DMU

Date: 29th August 1989

54370 + 51217 are being hauled by 31 458 when seen passing Oxbridge Sidings and the premises of TJ Thompsons just south of Stockton station on a Middlesbrough - Newcastle service, 29th August 1989. Jerry Glover.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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