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: 30339
Diagram: 522
03/09/57 | New to | South Gosforth | |
Feb-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
4w/e 23/04/66 | Transferred to | 51A (Darlington) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | DN | |
13/05/84 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | - Darlington closed |
11/05/86 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
15/02/87 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) | |
15/02/87 | To departmental stock | RG (Reading) |
50246 - original number
53246 - from Jul-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
977393 - from Feb-87 (departmental stock)
Ultrasonic Test Train (not used) From 2/87 to 7/93.
Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn
50246 | 56218 | As delivered to South Gosforth - 3rd September 1957 | |||||||
50139 | 50246 | Noted 04/09/71 - at Whitby1 | |||||||
50246 | 56061 | Noted 29/07/73 - at Eaglescliffe | |||||||
50246 | 56061 | Noted 03/09/73 - at Darlington1 | |||||||
50246 | 56061 | Noted 08/09/73 - at Darlington2 | |||||||
50246 | 56065 | Noted 06/09/75 - at Newcastle1 | |||||||
50246 | 56065 | Noted 30/12/75 - at Darlington1 | |||||||
50246 | 56065 | Noted 31/03/1976 - at York3 | |||||||
50246 | 56405 | Noted 06/09/76 - in Carlisle Citadel2 | |||||||
50246 | 56079 | Noted 28/08/81 - at Whitehouse (Middlesbrough) | |||||||
50246 | 56079 | Noted 11/11/81 - at Bishop Auckland | |||||||
50246 | 56065 | Noted 16/01/19824 | |||||||
50246 | 56381 | Noted circa 10/19824 | |||||||
53246 | 54375 | Noted circa 03/19854 | |||||||
53246 | 54378 | Noted circa 10/19864 | |||||||
53246 | 54076 | Noted 01/12/19864 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
E50246 + E56079 at Bishop Auckland on November 11, 1981. Demolition of the triangular station is well underway. Darlington DMUs still used the platform on the closed route from Durham before being relocated to a new and much smaller station to the left of where the signalbox was John Carter.
53246 was renumbered 977393 and in 1987 sent to Cardiff Cathays as a third vehicle to convert to an Ultrasonic Test vehicle alongside 51433 / 53167 (977391/2 with an ex-SR EMU car in-between). In the event it was not used, and languished at Cathays until its closure in 1990 when it moved to Radyr, where it is seen here in circa 1993. It is covered in large stickers proclaimed as being stripped of asbestos by Vic Berrys. It was cut up at MC Metals in Glasgow in June '93. Chris Adams.
977393 at Radyr Yard on 21st March 1993. S Gaskell.
Whitby at 16.00 on 4 September 1971, the last Saturday of the summer season. The station is full of 101's waiting to form late afternoon and early evening trains returning to Middlesbrough. On the right, waiting to depart at 16.08, are (from l.to r.) 56061/51211 + 50246/50139. Leonard Rogers.
E56061 and E50246 arrive into Eaglescliffe station with a Stockton service on July 29, 1973. David Mant.
E56079 + E50246 at Whitehouse (Middlesbrough) on 28-08-1981. John Carter.