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Vehicle 50143 / 53143


Class 101

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: 30249
Diagram: 618

Allocations

23/10/56 New to South Gosforth
Feb-64Depot code change52J
May-73Depot code changeGF
29/05/77 Transferred to DE (Dundee)
01/03/82 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
07/09/86 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
Jan-87 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
May-87 Withdrawn from HA (Haymarket) - also noted as 29/09/87 from AY

Notes

29th June 1987 - Seen at Aberdeen Ferryhill
07/09/87 - Withdrawn vehicles 51235/7/9, 53143/75, 53648/59 and 53709/39 noted passing through Newcastle behind 47 210 on a Millerhill-March special.

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50143 - original number
53143 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50142 59044 59051 50143 As delivered to South Gosforth - 23rd October 1956
50251 59539 50143 Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster1
N304 51439 59539 50143 Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number only on 501432
222 50290 59544 50143 Noted 13/08/77 - in Edinburgh Waverley2
50290 59544 50143 Noted 03/09/77 - in Edinburgh Waverley2
50143 59302 51244 Noted 01/07/1978 - Special train from Edinburgh to Rosyth for dockyard open day 51801-51518 + 51534-59564-51460 + 50143-59302-51244
233 51244 59302 50143 Noted 08/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley3
313 51239 59047 50143 Listed at DE - 01/02/81
51239 59047 50143 Noted 14/09/81 - on 12.50 Arbroath – Edinburgh4
101313 51239 59047 50143 Listed at HA - 13/06/82
101313 51239 59047 53143 Listed at HA - 17/06/84
101313 51239 59047 53143 Listed at HA - 25/03/85
101313 51239 59047 53143 Listed at HA - Summer 1986
312 51237 59112 53143 Listed at HA - August 1986
51237 59112 53143 Noted 26th September 1986
313 51239 59047 53143 Noted 10/10/1986 - at Edinburgh Waverley3
313 51239 59047 53143 Noted 11/10/86
101320 51248 59047 53143 Noted 08/11/19863
101322 51250 59571 53143 Noted 20/03/19873
101313 51239 59047 53143 Listed at HA - 23/03/87
313 51239 59047 53143 Noted 27/04/19873

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Phil Shatford

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Haymarket

22nd July 1979

A three-car Class 101 DMU arrived into Haymarket station from Edinburgh Waverley on 22 July 1979. Then closest car appears to be SC50143. Brian Daniels.

Class 101 DMU at Dundee

10th October 1981

Set number: 101313

101 313 (presumably 50143) at the west end of Dundee depot on October 10, 1981. Bruce Galloway.

Class 101 DMU at North Queensferry

6th August 1982

Set number: 101313

Sc50143 on the rear of set 101313 heading south out of North Queensferry station on August 6th, 1982. John Carter.

Class 101 DMU at Haymarket depot

circa 1984

Set number: 313

Class 101 set 313 (probably 53143) and a Class 116 inside the sheds of Haymarket depot circa 1984. S Saunders.

Class 101 DMU at Curriehill

11th October 1986

53143 + 59047 + 51239 (set 313) is working the 12:24 Edinburgh - Glasgow Central service when seen near Curriehill on the 11th October 1986. Hamish Stevenson.

Class 101 DMU at Dundee

circa 1987

Class 101 DMSL Sc53143 at Dundee, circa early 1987. Andrew McConnell.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 31st August 1975

One of the DMU shuttles that ran from Darlington to Shildon for the Rail 150 Cavalcade on 31 August 1975. Helpfully, the November 1975 Railway Observer listed the formations of these shuttles and this one can be identified as, left to right, 59388 + 50644, 50141 + 59577 + 59081 + 50189 and 51439 + 59538 + 50143. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 6th October 1976

Class 101s at Newcastle on October 6, 1976. The closest DMS in the four-car set is either E50143 or E50148. Graeme Phillips Collection.

DMU

Date: circa 1987

The toilet end of Class 111 TSL 59571 at Dundee, circa 1987. The DMSL on the right is Sc53143. Andrew McConnell.

DMU

Date: circa 1987

E59571 in the bay platform at Dundee, circa 1987. The far power car is Sc53143. Andrew McConnell.