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Set TS524

These formations have been noted:

Noted 07/04/77 - on 2F76 1236 Birmingham New Street-Leicester with EP485 + TS516
50066 59024 50103 Noted circa 01/19781
50066 59024 50103 Listed at TS - 12/08/79
50066 59024 50103 Noted circa 01/19811
50066 59024 50103 Noted circa 10/19811
50066 59024 50103 Noted circa 05/19821
50068 59009 50103 Noted circa 09/19821
50068 59005 50103 Listed at TS - Jan-83
53068 59005 53103 Listed at TS - 14/07/83
53068 59607 53103 Noted circa 09/19831
53068 59607 53103 Noted circa 12/19831
53068 59607 53112 Noted circa 04/19841
53068 59622 53112 Noted circa 01/19851
53068 59622 53112 Noted circa 09/19851
53068 59622 53112 Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986
51884 59622 53112 Noted 23/04/1987 - at Birmingham New Street - as 9 car set with TS400 and TS354 - 51884 had domino dots in former headcode panel.2

Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn
2: Robert Chilton

Class 116 DMU at Four Oaks

30th May 1978

Tyseley Class 116 set TS524 (50103 and presumably 59024 + 50066) arriving at Four Oaks on 30 May 1978. Michael Mensing.

Class 100 DMU at Birmingham New Street

30th June 1982

Tyseley set TS524 comprising Gloucester Class 100, M51119, Class 116 TCL M59009 and Cl 116 DMS, probably M50103, arrive in platform 1 at Birmingham New St, 30th June 1982. Paul James.

Class 116 DMU at University

7th July 1984

M53112 at University, Birmingham on 07/07/84. Steve Jones.

Class 116 DMU at Five Ways

7th July 1984

M53112 at Five Ways, Birmingham on 07/07/84. Steve Jones.

Class 116 DMU at Birmingham Moor Street

29th January 1987

On 29 January 1987 T524 (presumably 53068 + 59622 (a 127) + 53112) was in Birmingham Moor Street station having arrived from Stratford-upon-Avon and was being prepared to return to the same town. I don't know what the two vehicles to the left of the DMU were doing in the siding but assume that they had been left there after some sort of engineering work over the previous weekend. Freight traffic to the yard here had ceased from 1972; before I started railway photography or even owned a camera other than a plastic Kodak Brownie 127. Peter Tandy.

Class 116 DMU at Birmingham Moor Street

7th February 1987

Until 1987, the GWR's Moor Street station was the terminus for trains both from the Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon lines. When Snow Hill was reopened a two platform through station was constructed adjacent to the terminus, which then became redundant and was closed. On 7 February 1987 the 12.10 to Stratford departs from Moor Street in the capable hands of driver Geoff Davies, the set being TS524, presumably 53068 + 59622 (a 127) + 53112. Moor Street lay derelict for many years, but now has been restored and is now used again by trains to relieve pressure on Snow Hill and to provide shoppers with a more direct route to their destinations. The car park is now part of the new Moor Street station with its own terminus platforms used by many of Chiltern Railways' Marylebone services including those using class 68 power in push-pull mode. Peter Tandy.

Class 115 DMU at Birmingham New Street station

23rd April 1987

Emerging from the gloom of Birmingham New Street station on 23/Apr/1987 is Class 115 DMBS no. 51884 at the head of non-gangwayed three-car set TS524 formed with 59622 (cl.127) and 53112 (cl.116). This was a nine-car consist, the other sets recorded as being TS400 formed 51862-59602-53124 (classes 115-127-116) and TS354 formed 53890-59054-53910 (two class 116 DMSs with a class 101 trailer brake). Unusually at this late date and for a unit in Blue/Grey livery, two white marker dots are displayed in the former headcode panel of the leading 115 and as I recall, they were actually stuck on the outside purely for effect. It looked really good compared with the usual plain painted treatment. 51884 had a more varied allocation history than many 115s, being new to Chaddesden thence to Trafford Pk, Allerton, Toton, Allerton again, Marylebone, back to Allerton before a return to Marylebone and a final transfer to Tyseley in 1986. It received gangways for the first time only in September 87. Robert Chilton.

Class 115 DMU at Tyseley

26th April 1987

Class 115 51884, set number T524, is seen under going repairs inside Tyseley depot on 26.04.1987. This looked pretty good having the domino style headcode panel. Andy Cole.


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