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: 30263
Diagram: 619
01/10/57 | New to | South Gosforth | |
3w/e 16/05/59 | Transferred to | 51A (Darlington) | |
4w/e 03/10/59 | Transferred to | South Gosforth | |
Feb-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
2w/e 09/09/79 | Transferred to | DN (Darlington) | |
11/04/82 | Transferred to | NR (Norwich) | |
Dec-83 | Depot code change | NC | |
16/07/92 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX | |
05/10/92 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX |
50238 - original number
53238 - from May-84 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Nov-85 - Radio Electronic Token Block fitted
Nov-85 - Headlamp fitted
circa Mar-87 - Leyland engines fitted
Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn
50238 | 59088 | 59094 | 50239 | As delivered to South Gosforth - 1st October 1957 | |||||
50238 | 59042 | 59051 | 50239 | Transfer to South Gosforth - Sep-59 | |||||
50180 | 59527 | 59085 | 50238 | Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle1 | |||||
50180 | 59085 | 50238 | Noted 11/1974 - at Newcastle 2 | ||||||
N305 | 50180 | 59085 | 50238 | Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number only on 502383 | |||||
50180 | 59085 | 50238 | Noted 29/11/1975 - at York2 | ||||||
50180 | 59085 | 50238 | Noted 03/04/76 - in Newcastle Central3 | ||||||
50165 | 50238 | Noted 29/11/80 - with E50548 + E51207 at Bishop Auckland | |||||||
50139 | 59092 | 50238 | Transfer to NR - 18/04/82 | ||||||
98 | 50139 | 59092 | 50238 | Noted 17/08/82 - at Norwich3 | |||||
97 | 53235 | 59092 | 53238 | Noted 15/12/83 - at Norwich3 | |||||
97 | 53235 | 59092 | 53238 | Noted circa 01/19844 | |||||
97 | 50139 | 59092 | 53238 | Noted circa 03/19844 | |||||
92 | 53139 | 59092 | 53238 | Noted circa 10/19854 | |||||
92 | 53139 | 59092 | 53238 | Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85 | |||||
92 | 53139 | 59092 | 53238 | Listed at NC - Dec-85 | |||||
106 | 53139 | 59092 | 53238 | Listed at Norwich - Summer 1986 | |||||
106 | 53139 | 59092 | 53238 | Noted 27/08/19864 | |||||
106 | 53139 | 59092 | 53238 | Listed at NC - Apr-87 | |||||
106 | 53139 | 59092 | 53238 | Noted 29/08/19874 | |||||
106 | 53139 | 59092 | 53238 | Listed at NC - Feb-90 | |||||
106 | 53139 | 59092 | 53238 | Listed at NC - 21/01/91 | |||||
108 | 53238 | 59092 | 53267 | Listed at NC - Jul-91 | |||||
108 | 53238 | 59092 | 53267 | Listed at NC - Aug-91 | |||||
108 | 53238 | 59092 | 53267 | Listed at NC - Dec-91 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
Metro-Cammell Class "101" Local Passenger 4-car dmu Nos.E50238 (101/1), E59094 (168), E59088 (162), E50239 (101/1), all of the 1957 batch with 2-character headcode panel, in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends, leaving Middlesbrough on a service to Thornaby, Stockton, Billingham, West Hartlepool, Sunderland and Newcastle (Central), 03/76. Hugh Llewelyn.
53238 crosses Melton crossing on the 11th August 1984. David Underwood.
Class 101 set 106 (presumably 53238/59092/53139) seen near Wickham Market, 7/9/86. David Underwood.
Set 106 (presumably 53238 + 59092 + 53139) in Brampton on the 7th September 1986. David Underwood.
Three-car Class 101 DMU set 97 (53238 appears to be closest) at East Suffolk Junction in Ipswich, probably on a Norwich to Ipswich service. Date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 101 set 106 at Westerfield Junction on June 6, 1989. 53238 closest, presumably with 59092 + 53139. John Carter.
Class 101 E53238 (presumably with 59092 behind) seen in Norwich station in August 1989. Nicholas Youngman.
E50548 + E51207 / E50238 + E50165 with the 13:49 to Darlington to Bishop Auckland on November 29, 1980. John Carter.
I used an Anglian Day Rover ticket on 20 August 1988 to visit Norwich, Clacton, Walton and Felixstowe before returning to Ely, where our day had started. This is Felixstowe station, with Class 101 dmu NR106 (allocated to Norwich Crown Point with vehicles 53139 + 59092 + 53238) having just arrived as the 14.56 from Ipswich. Lewis Bevan.
53139 at the front of set 106 (with 53238 and presumably 59092) at Westerfield Junction, June 6, 1989. John Carter.
Met-Camm set 106 (presumably 53139 + 59092 + 53238) at Reedham on 7/6/89. Sparegang.
53139 + 59092 + 53238 at Great Yarmouth on 7/6/89. Sparegang.