Vehicle 50172 / 53172

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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: 30256
Diagram: 620

Allocations

28/01/57	New to	51A (Darlington)
2w/e 06/05/67	Transferred to	South Gosforth
4w/e 27/02/71	Transferred to	51A (Darlington)
May-71	Transferred to	32A (Norwich)
May-73	Depot code change	NO
Sep-73	Depot code change	NR
w/e 18/10/75	Transferred to	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
11/04/78	Transferred to	DE (Dundee)
01/03/82	Transferred to	ED (Eastfield)
circa Aug-82	Transferred to	HA (Haymarket)
10/09/87	Withdrawn from	HA (Haymarket)

Notes

27/07/87 - 51189 + 51782/8/94 + 53172/4/698 + 59285/682 moved Aberdeen Ferryhill to Snailwell hauled by 26007 Millerhill to Newcastle then 37051 to Whitemoor.

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50172 - original number
53172 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 07/04/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

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
	50172	59084	59071	50179					Noted 12/07/1966 - York1
	50172	59381	59248	51513					Noted 11/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2
	50230	50172							Noted 02/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds3
81	50172	59097	50750						Noted circa late 1972 - at Ipswich4
81	50172	59097	50750						Noted 17/02/73 - at Ipswich4
81	50172	59097	50750						Noted circa 1973 - at Bury St Edmunds3
	50230	59523	50172						Noted 20/05/73
86	50230	59523	50172						Noted 28/07/73 - at Thetford3
	50230	59523	50172						Noted 15/08/1973 - at Birmingham New Street5
86	50230	59542	50172						Noted 26/01/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
	50230	59542	50172						Noted 31/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street6
86	50230	59542	50172						Noted 06/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
	50230	59542	50172						Noted 02/11/1974 - at Doncaster5
	50230	59527	50172						Noted 27/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
	50230	59527	50172						Noted 27/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
86	50230	59527	50172						Noted 22/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
86	50160	59097	50172						Noted 09/06/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
86	50230	59527	50172						Listed at NR - 19/07/75
	50172	59523	50201						Noted 04/09/76 - at Sheffield7
	50154	59542	50172						Noted Mar-77 - at Hull7
	50201	59200	50172						Noted 11/02/1978 - Doncaster8
	51251	59085	50172						Noted 09/09/1979 - Fife area8
309	51233	59566	50172						Listed at DE - 01/02/81
101309	51233	59566	50172						Noted 6th May 1981
101309	51233	59566	50172						Listed at DE - 28/11/81
	51233	59566	50172						Noted 30th December 19819
	51233	59566	50172						Noted 11/04/1982 - in Thornton Junction CS8
	51233	59566	50172						Noted 12/06/1982 - on Eastfield depot8
101309	51233	59566	50172						Listed at ED - 13/06/82
101362	50186	59073	50172						Noted 27/04/1983 - at Glasgow Queen Street8
101316	51242	59067	53172						Listed at HA - 17/06/84
101309	51233	59566	53172						Listed at HA - 25/03/85
101361	53172	59112	53141						Noted circa 10/19852
	53147	59112	53172						Noted 09/12/1985 - at Glasgow Queen Street 8
101309	51233	59566	53172						Listed at Haymarket - Summer 1986
101313	51239	59086	53172						Noted 3rd July 1986
313	51239	59086	53172						Listed at HA - August 1986
	53172								Noted 11/10/1986 - at Haymarket Depot2
101309	51233	59566	53172						Noted circa 12/19862
101303	53292	59553	53172						Listed at HA - 23/03/87
	53292	59553	53172						Noted circa 04/19872

Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Gerald Brown
4: Ipswich Transport Society
5: Peter Wallwork
6: Jeremy Goodyear
7: Leonard Rogers
8: Martin Lumley
9: Stuart Mackay

Images:

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circa 1974

Set number: 86

E50172 at the front of two three-car Met-Camm sets in March station, circa early/mid 1970s. The vehicle carries window bars on the passenger doors from its time in the north east, it would move back north in October 1975, this time to Hull. John Law.

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26th August 1978

A Met-Camm set with SC50172 on the rear waits for the signal to run through the tunnel to Haymarket at Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, on 26/08/78. The DMS was a recent transfer from England, hence the unpainted window frames which ScR vehicles normally had. Steve Jones.

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circa early 1980s

Set number: 101309

SC50172 is closest in this view of Met-Camm DMU set 101309 passing through Prince Street Gardens circa early 1980s. Paul Redmond.

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5th September 1981

Set number: 101309

SC50172 leads 2 x 3 car MC sets forming 2G75 15.20 Dundee to Edinburgh down the grade at Lochmuir in Fife. Bruce Galloway.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 7th July 1984

The Brian Isherwood organised Eastgate Explorer railtour at Northallerton on 7 July 1984. The Six Bells Junction website records the vehicles as 51578 (closest) + 59580 + 51587 and 53172 + 59286 + 53666. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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Date: 6th October 1985

Set number: 101361

The 16:03 from Dunblane arrives into Falkirk Grahamston (which is undergoing 'modernisation'). The photographer notes the power cars as 53141 + 53172, and The centre car carries the HA depot 'castle' logo. Hamish Stevenson.