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Vehicle 59578


Class 111

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30615
Diagram: 625

Allocations

3w/e 04/06/60 New to 55H (Neville Hill)
3w/e 04/06/60 Transferred to South Gosforth
Feb-64Depot code change52J
4w/e 27/04/68 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
31/08/69 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-71 Transferred to 55F (Hammerton Street)
May-73Depot code changeHS
w/e 13/09/75 Transferred to GF (South Gosforth)
04/06/78 Transferred to DE (Dundee)
Feb-81 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
22/08/81 Stored S. MH (Millerhill)
30/09/81 Withdrawn

Notes

Summer 1981 - On ScR the three remaining Class 111 trailer seconds 59574/7/8 were placed in store during the late summer 1981 and were seen at Millerhill during November 1981.

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51437 59527 59578 51507 Transfer to South Gosforth - 3w/e 04/06/60
51544 59578 51554 Noted 15/08/19701
51546 59048 59578 51845 24/10/70 - on BLS Ouse & Aire railtour2
232 50290 59578 50176 Noted 08/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley3
347 51800 59578 51531 Listed at ED - 01/02/81

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 111 DMU at Edinburgh Waverley

27th August 1979

Met-Camm ex-buffet SC59578 during its time in Scotland when it was based at Dundee, seen at Edinburgh Waverley on 27/8/79. Basil Hancock.

Class 111 DMU at Millerhill

8th November 1981

Withdrawn vehicles at Millerhill on the 8th November 1981. Met-Camm buffet car 59578 is next to Cravens 50770, this has 'cond 7720 30.9.81' painted on its side. Hamish Stevenson.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 24th October 1970

51546 + 59048 + 59578 + 51845 at Rowntrees Halt with the BLS Ouse & Aire tour on October 24, 1970. Leonard Rogers.