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Vehicle 51217

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: 30467
Diagram: 523

Allocations

02/10/58	New to	South Gosforth
Feb-64	Depot code change	52J
Oct-68	Transferred to	32A (Norwich)
May-73	Depot code change	NO
Sep-73	Depot code change	NR
w/e 16/11/75	Transferred to	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
20/05/84	Transferred to	NC (Norwich)
05/04/87	Transferred to	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
04/10/87	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
21/10/89	Withdrawn from	HT (Heaton) PZQZ

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 16/05/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51217	56375		As delivered to South Gosforth - 2nd October 1958
	51217	56364		Noted 24/07/69 - at Cambridge¹
	51217	56371		Noted 18/09/70 - at Ely²
	51217	56371		Noted 21/12/70 - at Norwich²
	51217	56143		Noted 28/03/71 - at Ipswich with 51213 + 56434 forming an Ipswich - Clapham Jcn special³
	51217	56432		Noted 03/09/71 - at Norwich²
76	51217	56383		Noted circa e1972 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56114		Noted circa mid-1972 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56315		Noted circa late 1972 - at Ipswich³
76	51217	56300		Noted circa e1973 - at Ipswich³
76	51217	56315		Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56380		Noted 17/05/73 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56380		Noted 16/06/73 - at Thetford¹
76	51217	56380		Noted 02/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56380		Noted 14/03/74 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56380		Noted 30/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56365		Noted 30/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56365		Noted 08/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56365		Noted 01/02/75 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
76	51217	56365		Listed at NR - 19/07/75
	51217	56365		Noted 02/02/76 - at Brough²
	51217	56380		Noted 06/03/76 - on Botanic Gardens depot²
	51217	56393		Noted 10/04/76 - at Leeds²
	51217	56393		Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds²
	51217	56393		Noted 17/07/76 - at Brough²
	51217	59531	51218	Noted 30/03/77 - at Brough (two DMBSs)²
	51217	54364		Noted circa 10/1983⁴
75	51217	54364		Noted 14/06/84 - at Norwich¹
75	51217	54364		Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
75	51217	54364		Listed at NC - Dec-85
75	51217	54364		Noted 12/04/1986⁴
75	51217	54364		Listed at Norwich - Summer 1986
75	51217	54364		Listed at NC - Apr-87
	51217	59075	53263	Noted circa 11/1987⁴
	51217	53237		Noted 20/06/88 - on 15:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁵
	51217	53237		Noted 20/06/88 - on 16:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51217	53237		Noted 30/06/88 - on 17:10 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁵
	51217	53263		Noted 07/07/88 - on 16:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51217	53195		Noted 16/07/88 - on 19:20 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁵
	51217	53195		Noted 16/07/88 - on 17:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51217	51515		Noted 06/08/88⁵
	51217	53263		Noted 13/08/88 - on 12:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51217	53263		Noted 21/09/88 - on 06:32 Newcastle - Seaham service with 51467 + 53182⁵
	51217	53195		Noted 08/10/88 - on 13:35 Carlisle - Newcastle service⁵
	51217	51522		Noted 12/11/88 - on 17:20 Newcastle - Sunderland - service⁵
	51217	51522		Noted 17/11/88 - on 07:26 Newcastle - Seaham service⁵
	51217	51522		Noted 24/11/88 - on 08:15 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁵
	51217	51522		Noted 26/11/88 - on 17:04 Newcastle - Durham service⁵
	51217	51522		Noted 26/11/88 - on 12:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51217	51516		Noted 03/12/88 - on 14:32 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁵
	51217	51516		Noted 22/12/88 - on 12:00 Hexham - Sunderland service⁵
	51217	51515		Noted 14/01/89⁵
	51217	51515		Noted 21/01/89 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁵
	51217	51515		Noted 24/01/89 - on 14:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51217	51515		Noted 28/01/89 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service⁵
	51217	51515		Noted 04/02/89 - on 17:10 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 11/03/89 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 11/03/89 - on 16:05 Hexham - Newcastle⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 11/03/89 - on 17:20 Newcastle - Hexham service⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 18/03/89 - on 15:15 Sunderland - Gateshead MetroCentre service⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 18/03/89 - on 14:00 Hexham - Sunderland service⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 18/03/89 - on 17:20 Newcastle - Sunderland - service⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 25/03/89 - on 17:45 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 01/04/89 - on 16:00 Newcastle - Sunderland - service⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 03/04/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 22/04/89 - on 15:00 Hexham - Newcastle⁵
	51217	53182		Noted 29/04/89 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 22/05/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 25/05/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 03/06/89 - on 15:05 Hexham - Newcastle⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 05/06/89 - on 18:20 Newcastle - Sunderland - service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 09/06/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 10/06/89 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 12/06/89 - on 18:20 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 19/06/89 - on 19:00 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 01/07/89 - on 10:30 Sunderland - Hexham service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 03/07/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 08/07/89 - on 16:10 Newcastle - Alnmouth⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 17/07/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 19/07/89 - on 17:15 Sunderland - Newcastle service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 12/08/89 - on 17:10 Newcastle - Durham service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 14/08/89 - on 18:00 Newcastle - Sunderland - service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 15/08/89 - on 16:05 Gateshead Metro Centre - Sunderland service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 16/08/89 - on 17:55 Hexham - Newcastle⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 17/08/89 - on 10:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 19/08/89 - on 15:14 Newcastle - Carlisle service⁵
	51217	54370		Noted 04/11/89 - on 17:55 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service with 51467 + 53257 / 51516 + 51203 hauled by 47 462, believed to be football extra.⁵

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Ipswich Transport Society
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Graeme Phillips

Images:

7th July 1984

51217 is the DMBS on this Class 101 set seen passing Saltley on it's way to Norwich on 07.07.1984. Andy Cole.

30th October 1984

Set number: 75

Class 101 numbers E51217 and E54364 are departing from Norwich Thorpe with the 1505 to Sheringham, Class 03 No 03158 is about to shunt the stock of a train which has just arrived from London Liverpool Street to release the train engine. Keith Long.

circa 1984 or 1985

Set number: 75

Two-car Norwich Class 101 DMU set 75 at the South end of Halesworth station. Ipswich is on the destination blind and the set is likely changing platforms. The dent at the cantrail above the second passenger window identifies the DMBS at 51217 which dates it after May 1984 but before the line was singled and RETB went live in 1985. Stuart Mackay Collection.

1st April 1985

Set number: 75

Class 101 DMU set 75 (51217 + 54364) arrives into Marks Tey station with a Sudbury service on 1 April 1985. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive Collection. David Page.

1st April 1985

Set number: 75

Class 101 DMU set 75 (51217 + 54364) arrives into Sudbury station on 1 April 1985. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive Collection. David Page.

1st April 1985

Set number: 75

Class 101 DMU set 75 (51217 + 54364) in Sudbury station on 1 April 1985. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive Collection. David Page.

10th August 1985

Set number: 75

51217 sits at the front of set 75 (presumably with 54364) in the very dilapidated station at Felixstowe on August 10, 1985. David Christie.

28th May 1986

Set number: 75

Class 101 set 75 (presumably 51217 + 54364) arrives into Hitchin to form a 12:xx Hitchin - Peterborough service on Wednesday 28th May 1986. Colin Brooks.

23rd August 1988

Metro-Cammell class 101 unit 51217-51515 forming an afternoon Middlesbrough - Whitby 'Esk Valley' service departs from Battersby Junction on 23rd August 1988. Unit 53240-51467 stands in the station forming a Whitby - Middlesbrough service. Gordon Edgar.

29th August 1989

31 458 is hauling 51217 + 54370 at Stockton on a Newcastle - Middlesbrough train on the 29th August 1989. Jerry Glover.

31st August 1989

Class 47/4 47433 hauls dead DMU cars 51217 and 54370 at Carlisle with a local service to Newcastle on 31/08/89. This formation had been hauled around for at least a couple of days, so had not just failed. Acceleration with a Class 47 would have been brisk. Locomotive haulage of local services in the north-east were not uncommon through the 1980s, due to shortages of available DMUs, including failures of the then new Class 143 Pacers later in the decade. An influx of former Western Region Class 142s plus replacement of the troublesome SCG mechanical gearboxes with Voith hydraulic transmissions, from 1988, saw the eventual withdrawal of the last remaining Class 101s from the area in September 1989, although locomotive haulage of rakes of three coaches continued until 1990. Graeme Phillips Collection.

25th September 1990

This Class 101 DMU E51217 had arrived at Snailwell from Heaton but was at one time allocated to Norwich depot. The set number 75 still noticed on the front window. 25th September 1990. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: July 1972

Set number: 76

Norwich Cravens set 76 (likely to be E56114 + E51217) leads a DMU formation into Birmingham New Street in July 1972. Alistair Ness.

Date: 1st April 1985

Set number: 75

Class 101 DMU set 75 (54364 + 51217) departs from Sudbury on 1 April 1985. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive Collection. David Page.

Date: 23rd August 1988

The peace of Battersby station is momentarily disturbed as Whitby and Middlesbrough Esk Valley services briefly meet and reverse. On 23rd August 1988, Metropolitan-Cammell Class 101 two-car units 53240 - 51467 and 51217 - 51515 form Middlesbrough and Whitby-bound services respectively. The surviving NER 1907-built water crane is a remarkable survivor. Gordon Edgar.

Date: 23rd August 1988

Simultaneous arrivals are commonplace at principal rail termini, but such an occurrence was hardly expected at the remote outpost of Battersby. During the early evening of 23rd August 1988, the smartly dressed signal lady is poised to accept the single-line token from the arriving Whitby to Middlesbrough service, formed of Class 101 units 51467 - 53240, whilst arriving right on cue from Middlesbrough is the Whitby service, formed of Class 101 units 51515 - 51217. Rather sadly, the 1902-built NER Type C2b signal box was to close almost one year later, on 20th August 1989, when control was transferred to Nunthorpe signal box. Gordon Edgar.

Date: 23rd August 1988

Metro-Cammell class 101 units 51217-51515 (on the right) forming a Whitby service and 53240-51467 (left) forming a Middlesbrough service at Battersby Junction on 23rd August 1988. Gordon Edgar.

Date: 23rd August 1988

Simultaneous early evening arrivals at Battersby Junction and a rather well-dressed and certainly busy signal lady, 23rd August 1988. On the left 51515-51217 arriving from Middlesbrough, and on the right 51467-53240 arriving from Whitby. Gordon Edgar.

Date: 29th August 1989

54370 + 51217 are being hauled by 31 458 when seen passing Oxbridge Sidings and the premises of TJ Thompsons just south of Stockton station on a Middlesbrough - Newcastle service, 29th August 1989. Jerry Glover.

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