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Vehicle 59073


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30258
Diagram: 627

Allocations

28/01/57 New to 51A (Darlington)
3w/e 18/06/66 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-73Depot code changeNL
w/e 11/05/74 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
w/e 18/10/75 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
w/e 29/04/79 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
2w/e 12/05/79 Transferred to DE (Dundee)
02/08/81 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
p/e 02/12/89 Sector Change to HA (Haymarket) PXXZ
08/12/89 Withdrawn from HA (Haymarket) PXXZ

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 06/07/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50172 59060 59073 50173 As delivered to 51A - 28th January 1957
50173 59073 59060 50172 Noted 01/07/1957 - Hexham accident 01.07.1957 50173 destroyed in collision with steam loco 62029
50195 59065 59073 50197 Transfer to 55H - 3w/e 18/06/66
50552 59194 59073 50573 Noted 15/08/1970 - at York1
50552 59194 59073 50575 Noted 19/08/70 - at Leeds2
50552 59194 59073 50575 Noted 29/08/70 - at York2
50150 59073 59069 50237 Noted 22/05/71 - at Leeds City2
50150 59069 59073 50237 Noted 03/09/1971 - at York3
50150 59073 50237 Noted 10/10/1971 - at Leeds3
50150 59073 50237 Noted 01/09/72 - in Leeds City2
50150 59073 50237 Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds2
50150 59073 59069 50163 Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds2
50150 59073 50237 Transfer to NR - w/e 11/05/74
80 50150 59073 50237 Noted 19/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
50150 59073 50237 Noted 02/08/1974 - at Leicester1
51219 59073 50183 Noted 02/01/75 - at York, set number N453 on 590734
80 50150 59073 50237 Noted 23/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds4
80 50150 59073 50185 Noted 16/07/75 - at Bury St Edmunds4
80 50150 59073 50237 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
50150 59073 50237 Noted 26/10/75 - at Brough2
50150 59073 50273 Noted 06/11/75 - at Brough2
50150 59073 50237 Noted 12/01/76 - at Brough2
50164 59073 50150 Noted 16/01/76 - at Brough2
50193 59073 59084 50267 Noted 23/11/76 - (2 x TBS) at York2
50150 59073 50751 Noted 24/09/77 - in Sheffield Midland4
50253 59073 50751 Noted 15/04/1978 - at York1
50253 59073 50265 Noted 12/08/78 - on 07:23 Hull - Manchester Piccadilly5
50163 59073 50241 Transfer to ED - w/e 29/04/79
362 50186 59073 50187 Listed at DE - 01/02/81
50241 59073 50174 Noted 15/03/81 - on Haymarket depot2
101362 50186 59073 50187 Transfer to HA - 02/08/81
101362 50187 59073 50186 Listed at HA - 13/06/82
101362 53264 59073 53746 Noted circa 12/19836
101362 59073 Listed at HA - 17/06/84
101362 53186 59073 53187 Listed at HA - 25/03/85
101362 53197 59073 53189 Noted circa 02/19866
101362 53186 59073 53187 Listed at HA - Summer 1986
101362 53197 59073 53243 Noted 31st July 1986
362 53197 59073 53243 Listed at Haymarket - August 1986
362 53174 59073 53197 Formation change - p/e 17/09/86
53174 59073 53197 Noted 28th August 1986
53174 59073 53197 Noted 16th October 1986
101362 53264 59073 53197 Noted 08/11/19866
101362 53192 59073 53264 Noted circa 03/19876
101362 53186 59073 53187 Listed at HA - 23/03/87
101362 53192 59073 53264 Noted 04/04/19876
101362 53186 59073 53187 Noted circa 05/19876
101362 53186 59073 53187 Listed at HA - Jan-88
101362 51210 59073 53186 Noted circa 05/19886
101362 53186 59073 53187 Listed at HA - circa Aug-88

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 28th July 1987

Set number: 101362

Set 101 362 (53186/59073/53187), forming the 12.17 Edinburgh - North Berwick, passes the site of the future Musselburgh station at Mucklets Road bridge on 28/7/87. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: August 1987

Set number: 101362

Class 101 DMU set 101 362 (53187 and presumably 59073 + 53186) entering Kinghorn station in August 1987. Alistair Ness.

DMU

Date: August 1987

Set number: 101362

Kinghorn Met Camm. The livery has changed, but Class 101 DMUs had plied the Edinburgh to Dundee route for the best part of 30 years before this shot was taken at Kinghorn in August 1987. 101362 (53187 and presumably 59073 + 53186) is about to pass through the station with an Edinburgh to Dundee semi fast, next stop Kirkcaldy. Murray Liston.

DMU

Date: 1988

Set number: 101362

101362 (led by 53187, presumably with 59073 + 53186) departs from Edinburgh Waverley in 1988. S Saunders.

DMU

Date: 27th January 1991

Out of use vehicles at Thornton in Fife on January 27, 1991. Closest is 59794, which wouldn't be officially withdrawn until the end of the year. It had been transferred on paper to Neville Hill but never moved there. At the far end of the line are 53187, 53179, 51453, 59113, 53424, TDB977223 and 59073. Hamish Stevenson.