Vehicle 50591
Class 104
Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30301
Diagram: 559
Allocations
| 15/01/59 | New to | 50B (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 21/02/59 | Transferred to | South Gosforth | |
| 2w/e 11/06/60 | Transferred to | 51A (Darlington) | |
| 3w/e 22/10/60 | On loan to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| 2w/e 14/01/61 | Ex-loan back to | 51A (Darlington) | |
| Jan-61 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 03/06/61 | Transferred to | 51A (Darlington) | |
| 3w/e 30/09/61 | On loan to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 4w/e 30/06/62 | Ex-loan back to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
| 3w/e 31/12/76 | Transferred to | GF (South Gosforth) | |
| w/e 10/08/80 | Transferred to | DN (Darlington) | |
| Mar-81 | Withdrawn from | DN (Darlington) |
Notes
25/06/82 - Condemned vehicles 50591, 51970/7 and 59244 hauled from Doncaster Hexthorpe Yard (08:00) to Whittlesea (booked as 12:40) as 8X32. 51972 was also on the movement sheet but scored out.
Modifications
17/10/79 - AWS fitted
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50586 | 59232 | 59242 | 50591 | As delivered to 50B - 15th January 1959 | |||||
| 50586 | 59232 | 59242 | 50591 | Transfer to South Gosforth - 4w/e 21/02/59 | |||||
| 50586 | 59232 | 59242 | 50591 | Transfer to 51A - 2w/e 11/06/60 | |||||
| 50586 | 59232 | 59242 | 50591 | Transfer to 66C - 3w/e 22/10/60 - on loan | |||||
| 50586 | 59232 | 59242 | 50591 | Transfer to 51A - 2w/e 14/01/61 - ex-loan | |||||
| 50586 | 59232 | 59242 | 50591 | Transfer to 51A - 4w/e 03/06/61 | |||||
| 50586 | 59232 | 59242 | 50591 | Transfer to 50C - 3w/e 30/09/61 - on loan | |||||
| 50586 | 59232 | 59242 | 50591 | Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 30/06/62 - ex-loan | |||||
| 50586 | 59219 | 59194 | 50591 | Noted 28/08/1972 - at Scarborough1 | |||||
| 50586 | 59194 | 59219 | 50591 | Noted 30/08/1974 - at Doncaster1 | |||||
| 50586 | 59219 | 59194 | 50591 | Noted 03/01/75 - on Neville Hill depot2 | |||||
| 50586 | 59219 | 59194 | 50591 | Noted 08/09/75 - at Doncaster3 | |||||
| 50586 | 59219 | 59194 | 50591 | Noted 14/11/75 - at Cambridge2 | |||||
| 50550 | 59219 | 59194 | 50591 | Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds3 | |||||
| 50586 | 59194 | 59219 | 50591 | Transfer to GF - 3w/e 31/12/76 | |||||
| 50546 | 59215 | 59233 | 50591 | Noted 24/05/80 |
Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
Images:
May 1974
Birmingham RC&W Co. 4-car Local Passenger dmu (Class 104) with No.E50591 (Class 104/1) of the 1958 batch leading (the other vehicles in the set being Class 160, 166 & 104/1) in BR Rail Blue livery with all yellow front end at Leeds (City) station, 05/74. Hugh Llewelyn.
18th October 1980
E50591 + E59233 + E59215 + E50564 working the 1721 Darlington-Saltburn at Thornaby on 18/10/80. Darlington DMU depot gained some of these BRCW 104 class units displaced from South Gosforth by the first phase of the Tyne and Wear Metro. Most were withdrawn from Darlington in 1981. John Carter.