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Vehicle 50258 / 53258

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: 30266
Diagram: 523

Allocations

18/10/57	New to	51A (Darlington)
Nov-63	On loan to	16C (Derby Etches Park)
w/e 07/12/63	Ex-loan back to	51A (Darlington)
3w/e 31/10/65	Transferred to	52J (South Gosforth)
4w/e 02/01/71	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)
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)
12/04/87	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
13/09/88	Withdrawn from	HT (Heaton)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50258 - original number
53258 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

Mar-79 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 09/03/1979 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50258	50268		As delivered to 51A - 18th October 1957
	50258	50268		Noted 7th May 1958
	50258	50268		Transfer to 51A - w/e 07/12/63 - ex-loan
	50258	50268		Transfer to 52J - 3w/e 31/10/65
	50258	50161		Noted 03/04/71 - at Leeds¹
	50258	50161		Noted 02/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds²
	50258	50160		Noted 07/1971 - at Water Orton³
	50258	59527	50160	Noted 18/08/72 - on Cambridge depot²
82	50258	59526	50160	Noted circa late 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds²
	50258	59526	50171	Noted 13/08/1973 - on 12:39 Nottingham to Derby³
82	50258	59527	50160	Noted 01/11/83 - at Bury St Edmunds²
	50258	59529	50160	Noted 02/1974 - at Peterborough³
82	50258	59527	50160	Noted 06/04/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
82	50258	59527	50160	Noted 20/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
82	50258	59527	50160	Noted 31/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
82	50258	59527	50160	Noted 09/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
82	50258	59542	50160	Noted 23/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
82	50258	59542	50160	Noted 23/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
	50230	59542	50258	Noted 31/05/1975 - at Leicester on service to Birmingham³
82	50258	59542	50160	Listed at NR - 19/07/75
	50258	59542	50160	Noted 23rd July 1975
88	50185	59097	50258	Noted 09/08/1975 - at Birmingham New Street ³
	50258	59542	50161	Noted 10/09/1975 - at Ely³
	50258	59542	50161	Noted 13/09/75 - at Bury St Edmunds²
	50258	56380		Noted 05/01/76 - at Brough¹
	50258	50265		Noted 09/02/76 - at Brough¹
	50230	59527	50258	Noted 11/02/76 - at Brough (2 DMBSs)¹
	50258	56394		Noted 08/04/76 - at Brough¹
	50258	59092	50237	Noted 30/04/76 - at Doncaster²
	50258	59200	50237	Noted Jun-76 - at Doncaster¹
	50258	59200	50195	Noted 21/02/77 - at Doncaster¹
	50258	56053		Noted circa 10/1981⁴
	53258	54053		Noted 10/08/85 - at Norwich - a BG set strengthening a Birmingham - Norwich service²
	53258	54053		Noted circa 05/1986⁴
	53258	54053		Noted 30/11/1986⁴
	53258	54053		Noted 28th December 1986
	53258	54053		Noted 11/04/1987 - Industrial Railway Society Rowntree Requiem Railtour
	53205	53258		Noted 27/06/88 - on 16:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service with 51214 + 51521⁵
	53258	53161		Noted 13/07/88 - on 16:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	53258	53161		Noted 22/07/88 - on 16:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	53258	53161		Noted 22/07/88 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁵
	53258	53161		Noted 23/07/88 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁵

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Graeme Phillips

Images:

11th April 1987

The Industrial Railway Society "Rowntree Requiem" Railtour at Rowntree's Halt, York, on April 11, 1987. One of the shortest travelled railtours ever to run on the national network in the UK, the IRS organised the tour to coincide with their AGM held in York the same afternoon. The tour started from York at 12.35 and ran to the Rowntree Staff Halt on the Foss Island freight branch arriving at 12.45. It then returned to York at 13.10 with a 13.20 arrival giving a total of 45mins in service and a route mileage of just 2m 48ch (2½ miles) for the round trip. Six Bells Junction notes the vehicle as 53258 + 54053. Adrian Nicholls.

8th July 1989

Class 101 DMBS on Laira depot, 8 July 1989. The vehicle was never allocated to the Western region, it had been withdrawn from Heaton in September 1988 and would be cut at Vic Berry's circa late 1989. Keith Miller.

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