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Vehicle 50124 / 53124

Class 116

BR Diagram 554

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30213
Diagram: 554

Allocations

Aug-57 New to 88A (Cardiff Cathays)
Jan-61Depot code change88B
Mar-62Depot code change88M
Nov-64 Transferred to 86A (Cardiff Canton)
06/05/73Depot code changeCF
w/e 01/05/77 Transferred to TS (Tyseley)
22/09/94 Transferred to HQ (Headquarters) HGXX
4w/e 27/05/95 Withdrawn

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50124 - original number
53124 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

Feb-76 - WR AWS removed

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 05/09/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50082 59032 50124 As delivered to WR - August 1957
CAT344 50082 50124 Listed at CAT - Jul-62 - and centre car
50851 59340 50124 Noted 06/11/70 - at Cardiff1
CTN344 50082 59340 50124 Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71
50082 59340 50124 Noted 25/08/1971 - at Cardiff2
344 50082 59340 50124 Noted 02/11/72
C344 50082 59340 50124 Noted 26/08/75 - On Cardiff Canton depot3
TS550 50082 59492 50124 Noted 12/09/77 - at Aberystwyth, showing signs of having been T3443
TS550 50082 59366 50124 Noted circa 01/19784
TS550 50082 59366 50124 Listed at TS - 12/08/79
TS550 50082 59366 50124 Noted circa 01/19814
TS550 50082 59115 50124 Noted circa 10/19814
TS550 50082 59115 50124 Noted circa 09/19824
TS550 50082 59115 50124 Listed at TS - Jan-83
TS550 53082 59115 53124 Listed at TS - 14/07/83
TS606 53082 59115 53124 Noted circa 12/19834
TS606 53082 59602 53124 Noted 28/07/84 - at Norwich3
TS606 53082 59602 53124 Noted circa 09/19844
TS606 53082 59602 53124 Noted circa 10/19844
TS606 53082 59602 53124 Listed at TS - May-85
TS606 53082 59602 53124 Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986
TS606 53082 59602 53124 Noted 30/08/86 - at Norwich3
TS606 53827 59602 53124 Noted circa 01/19874
TS400 51862 59602 53124 Noted 23/04/1987 - at Birmingham New Street - as 9 car set with TS524 and TS3545
TS410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 30/05/1987 - at Norwich5
TS410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted circa 06/19874
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 28/06/87 - at Norwich3
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - Jul-87
51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 04/10/87 - on 12:00 Snow Hill - Dorridge with 51876 / 59609 / 59648 / 538916
51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 04/10/87 - on 14:30 Dorridge - Birmingham Snow Hill with 51876 / 59609 / 59648 / 538916
51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 04/10/87 - on 15:00 Birmingham Snow Hill - Dorridge with 51876 / 59609 / 59648 / 538916
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 09/01/19884
51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 21st February 1988
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 30/04/88 - on 10:53 Birmingham New Street - Rugby relief6
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - 01/09/89
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 26/11/1989 - Institute of Mining Engineers North Midland Railtour T410+T315
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 28th November 1989
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - 01/12/89
51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot2
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - mid May-90
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted circa 12/19904
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - Jul-91
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - Aug-91
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - Dec-91
51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 14/12/917
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - 02/07/92
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 01/08/92
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted 30/08/1992 - Bescot Depot open day shuttle
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Noted circa 09/19924
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - 24/09/92
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - November 1992
51862 53124 Noted 10/12/92 - on 18:24 Birmingham New Street - Lichfield TV8
T410 51862 59602 59713 53124 Listed at TS - 10/12/92
T410 51859 59495 59032 53124 Noted circa 06/19934
T354 51853 53124 53919 Noted circa 09/19934
T352 51851 53124 51146 Listed at TS - November 1993

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton
6: Martin Baumann
7: Graeme Phillips
8: David Bellamy

Images:

Class 116 DMU at Cardiff General

January 1962

W50124 leads a Derby suburban triple DMU (later known as a Class 116) into Cardiff General station in January 1962. Michael Mensing.

Class 116 DMU at Birmingham New Street

28th June 1982

Set number: TS550

M50124, Birmingham New St, 28th June 1982. Paul James.

Class 116 DMU at Scarborough

15th June 1988

Set number: T410

The 13:15 Scarborough - Leicester worked by Tyseley set T410 (53124 + 59713 + 59602 + 51862) departs Scarborough on June 15, 1988. John Carter.

Class 116 DMU at Ely West Junction

25th June 1988

Set number: T410

Class 116/115/127 Set T410 53124 + 59713 + 59602 + 51862 and 53827 + 59674 + 53844 on the 09.55 Birmingham to Yarmouth seen near Ely West Junction on 25th June 1988. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 116 DMU at Barnt Green

18th April 1992

Set number: T410

T410 (53124 + 59713 + 59602 + 51862) arrives at Barnt Green working the 14:23 Redditch - Lichfield City, 18th April 1992. Gazza Prescott.

Class 116 DMU at Henley-in-Arden

2nd May 1994

Set number: T588

Looking towards Bearley Junction from Henley-in-Arden on 2 May 1994 we see a six car set led by T588 (class 116 DMS 53124 leading with Class 119 51079 + 51107) and a 3 car class 116 trailing. Peter Tandy.

Class 116 DMU at Stratford-upon-Avon

18th June 1994

Set number: T588

Another picture on 18 June 1994 of what may have been the last DMMU to visit Stratford-upon-Avon this time with class 116 DMS 53124 leading with Class 119 51079 + 51107 as the unit waited to return to Birmingham Snow Hill. The 2 class 119 vehicles had been transferred from Reading to Tyseley in the preceding February and I imagine that the class 116 vehicle had been added to provide extra capacity for the busy Snow Hill lines when covering for unavailable class 150 sprinters which operated virtually all workings in the area by this time. Peter Tandy.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 23rd April 1987

Set number: TS524

Emerging from the gloom of Birmingham New Street station on 23/Apr/1987 is Class 115 DMBS no. 51884 at the head of non-gangwayed three-car set TS524 formed with 59622 (cl.127) and 53112 (cl.116). This was a nine-car consist, the other sets recorded as being TS400 formed 51862-59602-53124 (classes 115-127-116) and TS354 formed 53890-59054-53910 (two class 116 DMSs with a class 101 trailer brake). Unusually at this late date and for a unit in Blue/Grey livery, two white marker dots are displayed in the former headcode panel of the leading 115 and as I recall, they were actually stuck on the outside purely for effect. It looked really good compared with the usual plain painted treatment. 51884 had a more varied allocation history than many 115s, being new to Chaddesden thence to Trafford Pk, Allerton, Toton, Allerton again, Marylebone, back to Allerton before a return to Marylebone and a final transfer to Tyseley in 1986. It received gangways for the first time only in September 87. Robert Chilton.

DMU

Date: 26th December 1989

Set number: CH611

Class 104 53517, set number CH611, is seen stabled at Tyseley on 26.12.1989 in all over BR blue. On the right is M53124. Andy Cole.

DMU

Date: 10th April 1993

51859 at the rear of an e.c.s. working disappearing into the tunnel at the east end of New St at 16.48 on 10/4/93. The train comprised two 3-car sets : 51138/59600/51144 plus 53124/59713/51859. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: 18th June 1994

Set number: L588

Another DMU with NSE-liveried vehicles visited Stratford-upon-Avon on 18 June 1994 and is possibly one with some significance. First, it was the first and only class 119 unit I photographed here and second it is quite likely that this was the last ever first generation unit to come into the station although I have no proof of this. It was certainly the last I saw here as Sprinters had been solid on services for ages with the exception of some specially strengthened services on the May Bank Holiday during the previous month. I must have been given some prior information about this in time to drive from work at Tiddington as I was ready and waiting at the station for its arrival with the 11.22 from Birmingham Snow Hill. It's a real shame that I didn't take any colour shots but through looking at my notebook it seems that I may have run out of slide films at just the wrong time. Unusually for me I wrote down the vehicle numbers; 51107, 51079 and 53124, a class 116 DMS. Peter Tandy.

DMU

Date: 27th August 1994

Set number: 119432

Here we see a real mixed bag with two 119 cars nose to tail and a Class 116 at the far end. 51079 + 51107 + 53124 stand at the far end of Snow Hill Stn on a line which was shortly swapped over to the Midland Metro. It was probably the spare unit that day. 27th August 1994 Steve Robinson.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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