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: 30249
Diagram: 618
09/11/56 | New to | South Gosforth | |
Feb-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
04/06/78 | Transferred to | DE (Dundee) | |
p/e 28/11/81 | Transferred to | AY (Ayr) | |
circa Aug-82 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
07/09/86 | Transferred to | AY (Ayr) | |
circa Jul-87 | Withdrawn from | AY (Ayr) |
50147 - original number
53147 - from Jan-84 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
50146 | 59046 | 59053 | 50147 | As delivered to South Gosforth - 9th November 1956 | |||||
50147 | 59382 | 59250 | 50646 | Noted 03/04/711 | |||||
50147 | 59050 | 59043 | 51511 | Noted 02/06/1973 - at Newcastle2 | |||||
N408 | 50147 | 59050 | 59043 | 51511 | Noted 08/09/73 - at York3 | ||||
N408 | 50147 | 59050 | 59043 | 51511 | Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number only on 501473 | ||||
50147 | 59050 | 59043 | 51511 | Noted 30/12/75 - at Newcastle1 | |||||
50147 | 59050 | 59043 | 51511 | Noted 01/04/1976 - at Newcastle4 | |||||
234 | 51250 | 59067 | 50147 | Noted 08/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley5 | |||||
316 | 51242 | 59071 | 50147 | Listed at DE - 01/02/81 | |||||
101316 | 51242 | 59071 | 50147 | Listed at AY - 13/06/82 | |||||
101302 | 53290 | 59071 | 53147 | Listed at HA - 17/06/84 | |||||
101316 | 51242 | 59071 | 50147 | Listed at HA - 25/03/85 | |||||
101301 | 53254 | 59305 | 53147 | Noted circa 02/19865 | |||||
101316 | 51242 | 59071 | 53147 | Listed at HA - Summer 1986 | |||||
301 | 53254 | 59305 | 53147 | Listed at HA - August 1986 | |||||
101301 | 53254 | 59305 | 53147 | Noted 4th August 1986 | |||||
101316 | 51242 | 59071 | 53147 | Noted circa 12/19865 | |||||
101316 | 51242 | 59071 | 53147 | Noted 05/12/19875 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
A Metropolitan Cammell image (negative DZ155) showing a brand new four-car DMU set for the North Eastern Region in Sutton Park station. DMSL E50147 is closest (with many staff on board), TBLS E59053 behind, the other two vehicles are presumably TSL E59046 and DMSL E50146. They were listed as new to South Gosforth on 9 November 1956. Metropolitan Cammell.
A Metropolitan Cammell image showing a brand new four-car DMU set for the North Eastern Region in Sutton Park station. DMSL E50147 is closest (with many staff on board), TBLS E59053 behind, the other two vehicles are presumably TSL E59046 and DMSL E50146. They were listed as new to South Gosforth on 9 November 1956. Metropolitan Cammell.
A Metropolitan Cammell image showing a brand new four-car DMU set for the North Eastern Region in Sutton Park station. The vehicles are almost certainly E50147 + E59053 + E59046 + E50146 which were listed as new to South Gosforth on 9 November 1956. Note the white disks in the two lower outer marker lamps. Metropolitan Cammell.
SC50147, a recent transfer to the ScR from South Gosforth, leaving Edinburgh Waverley on 25/08/78. Steve Jones.
ScotRail Met-Camm Class 101 DMU set 316 cars 53147 + 59071 + 51242 at Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, on 3 July 1985. Neil Smith.
A four-car Class 101 DMU departs from Newcastle (Central) with a Middlesbrough service in March 1976. Closest is possibly 51511, the other vehicles would be 59043 + 59050 + 50147. Hugh Llewelyn.
3-car class 101 DMU set no. 101 316 (51242+59071+53147) sits in the single platform at North Berwick waiting to form train 2Y13 the 17.04 to Edinburgh Waverley on 04/11/85. Adrian Nicholls.