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Vehicle 50103 / 53103

Class 116

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30213
Diagram: 554

Allocations

May-57	New to	84E (Tyseley)
01/01/63	Boundary change	84E	transferred from WR to LMR stock
Sep-63	Depot code change	2A
May-73	Depot code change	TS
15/11/87	Withdrawn from	TS (Tyseley)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50103 - original number
53103 - from Jul-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

Dec-77 - AWS fitted
Dec-77 - WR AWS removed

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50061	59011	50103	As delivered to WR - May 1957
311	50059	59011	50103	Noted Aug-60¹
TY522	50066	59022	50103	Noted circa Jun-69
TY522	50066	59022	50103	Listed at 2A - 16/08/70
	50066	59022	50103	Noted 02/10/1971 - at Tyseley depot²
	50066	59022	50103	Noted 19/10/71 - at Church Road, Edgbaston³
TS522	50066	59022	50103	Noted 04/07/1975 - at Solihull⁴
TY522	50066	59022	50103	Noted 23/08/75 - in Tyseley station⁵
TS522	50066	59022	50103	Noted 08/09/76 - at Tyseley⁵
	50066	59022	50103	Noted 14/09/1977 - at Solihull⁴
TS524	50066	59024	50103	Noted circa 01/1978⁶
TS524	50066	59024	50103	Listed at TS - 12/08/79
TS524	50066	59024	50103	Noted circa 01/1981⁶
TS524	50066	59024	50103	Noted circa 10/1981⁶
TS524	50066	59024	50103	Noted circa 05/1982⁶
TS524	50068	59009	50103	Noted circa 09/1982⁶
TS524	50068	59005	50103	Listed at TS - Jan-83
TS524	53068	59005	53103	Listed at TS - 14/07/83
TS524	53068	59607	53103	Noted circa 09/1983⁶
TS524	53068	59607	53103	Noted circa 12/1983⁶
TS515	53067	59615	53103	Noted circa 06/1984⁶
TS515	53067	59615	53103	Noted circa 11/1984⁶
TS515	53067	59627	53103	Noted circa 09/1985⁶
TS515	53067	59627	53103	Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986
TS500	53860	59757	53103	Formation change - TS - circa Oct-86 - 53103 (ex-TS515) replaces 53913 (to TS515)
TS598	53090	59629	53103	Noted circa 04/1987⁶
TS598	53090	59629	53103	Noted 23/04/1987 - at Birmingham New Street - as 6 car set with TS520⁷
TS528	53062	59715	53103	Noted 27/06/1987⁶
T528	53062	59715	53103	Listed at TS - Jul-87

Formation Sources
1: Andrew Cope
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Gerald Brown
6: Eddie Knorn
7: Robert Chilton

Images:

26th April 1964

Set number: 315

M50103 leads set 315 east of Priestfield with the 10.0am Wellington - Leamington Spa service on Sunday April 26, 1964. Michael Mensing.

1970

Set number: TY522

Class 116 DMU set TY522 (presumably 50103 + 59022 + 50066) is seen on the North Warwick line at Tyseley sometime in 1970. Michael Mensing.

30th May 1978

Set number: TS524

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

7th December 1979

Set number: TS524

Then as now Birmingham Moor street station was a fine building. In this 7th December 1979 picture a Tyseley class 116 DMU (set TS524, presumably 50103 + 59024 + 50066) is waiting for 21.00 when it will leave for Leamington Spa. The platform it was taken from still has a terminal road but behind the fence to the right is the new part of the station and that is the through line to Snow Hill station, at the time of photography this was the old carriage sidings. Behind the station the back of the High street Co-op store is dominant, the Rotunda is still there of course but the area of car parking (far left) is now a dual carriageway and Selfridges thoughtful addition to the Birmingham landscape. Geoff Dowling.

7th July 1984

M53103 at Five Ways, Birmingham on 07/07/84. Steve Jones.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: May 1974

Set number: TY522

Class 116 set TY522 (presumably 50066 + 59022 + 50103) at Chester Road station heading for Lichfield City in May 1974. Michael Mensing.

Date: July 1978

A blue livery Class 116 at Bordesley Junction in July 1978. The DMS partially in frame is M50103. Michael Mensing.

Date: 30th June 1982

Set number: TS524

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.

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