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: 30255
Diagram: 620
10/01/57 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
4w/e 01/08/64 | Transferred to | South Gosforth | |
4w/e 05/09/64 | Transferred to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
Dec-67 | Depot code change | 55F | |
4w/e 25/05/68 | 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) | |
2w/e 22/02/76 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
27/05/84 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
11/05/86 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
03/05/87 | Transferred to | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
23/08/87 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
02/10/88 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
09/03/89 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) PWYX | |
14/05/89 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) PCFX | |
24/01/90 | Withdrawn from | CF (Cardiff Canton) PZQZ |
13/12/73 - noted as damaged on Cambridge depot
50169 - original number
53169 - from 1984 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
50165 | 50169 | As delivered to 56G - 10th January 1957 | |||||||
50165 | 50169 | Noted 19th January 1957 - arrived at Starbeck to start training runs between there and Poppleton | |||||||
50165 | 50169 | Transfer to South Gosforth - 4w/e 01/08/64 | |||||||
50165 | 50169 | Transfer to 56G - 4w/e 05/09/64 | |||||||
50169 | 59096 | 59045 | 50141 | Noted 20/08/69 - at Leeds1 | |||||
50169 | 59086 | 59093 | 50190 | Noted 23/11/69 - at Leeds1 | |||||
50256 | 50169 | Noted 04/08/1971 - at Birmingham New Street2 | |||||||
50256 | 50169 | Noted 01/09/71 - at Norwich1 | |||||||
50256 | 50169 | Noted 02/09/71 - at Colchester on branch train to Sudbury1 | |||||||
50256 | 50169 | Noted 02/10/1971 - at Birmingham New Street3 | |||||||
50256 | 59542 | 50169 | Noted 20/05/73 | ||||||
84 | 50256 | 59542 | 50169 | Noted 16/06/73 - at Thetford4 | |||||
50256 | 59542 | 50169 | Noted 14/07/1973 - at Birmingham New Street3 | ||||||
50169 | 59523 | 50268 | Noted 06/04/1974 - at Birmingham New Street 2 | ||||||
84 | 50256 | 59523 | 50169 | Noted 27/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4 | |||||
84 | 50256 | 59523 | 50169 | Noted 01/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4 | |||||
84 | 50256 | 59540 | 50169 | Noted 16/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds4 | |||||
50256 | 59540 | 50169 | Noted 03/1975 - at Peterborough 2 | ||||||
84 | 50256 | 59540 | 50169 | Listed at NR - 19/07/75 | |||||
50256 | 59540 | 50169 | Noted 30/08/1975 - at Nottingham2 | ||||||
50161 | 59075 | 59306 | 50169 | Noted 09/07/1976 - Scarborough-Chester (8-car)5 | |||||
50161 | 59075 | 59306 | 50169 | Noted circa 01/19776 | |||||
50161 | 59306 | 59075 | 50169 | Noted 06/06/82 - at Skipton | |||||
50169 | 59075 | 59108 | 50161 | Noted circa 10/19826 | |||||
50169 | 59075 | 59108 | 50161 | Noted circa 02/19836 | |||||
53161 | 59101 | 59075 | 53169 | Noted circa 06/1983 - Lancaster6 | |||||
53169 | 59075 | 59101 | 53161 | Noted circa 07/19836 | |||||
53294 | 53169 | Noted circa 03/19856 | |||||||
53169 | 59075 | 53161 | Noted 27/09/19866 | ||||||
53169 | 59075 | 53161 | Noted 31/10/19866 | ||||||
53161 | 59075 | 53169 | Noted 01/05/87 - at York4 | ||||||
53217 | 53169 | Noted circa 05/19886 | |||||||
51250 | 53169 | Noted 23/07/88 - on 14:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service7 | |||||||
53166 | 53169 | Noted 30/09/88 - on 07:00 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service7 | |||||||
N659 | 51243 | 53169 | Noted circa 11/19886 | ||||||
C995 | 51436 | 53169 | Listed at CF - 15/05/89 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Chris Moxon
6: Eddie Knorn
7: Graeme Phillips
An unusual photo showing a very long formation formed neatly of Class 101 & 108 vehicles all carrying the short lived refurbishment livery. The occasion was a schools special from Scarborough to Chester returning through Helsby, 9/7/76. The 8-car formation was 50169/59306/59075/50161, 56191/50619 & 51230/56369. Anthony Griffiths.
Met-Camm four-car set E50169 + E59075 + E59306 + E50161 with a Dalesrail service in Skipton station on June 6th, 1982. John Carter.
With plates over the top / centre marker light positions, 53169 is seen at Battersby on the 27th May 1985. Jerry Glover.
A Class 101 DMU at Sheffield, 26/07/1986. DMS(L) 53169 was one of the more distinctive cars operating in the north of England in the 1980s, having a red buffer beam, Tyne & Wear PTE logo, plus the top and bottom centre lights on the cab front were not smoothed over as well as most others, leaving circular disc shapes Graeme Phillips Collection.
A Class 101 formed of DMCL 53169, TBSL 59075, and DMCL 53161 is seen in Carnforth station with the 12.31 Leeds - Lancaster on 4 May 1987. Dave Warby Collection.
DMS E53169 is seen in what was then Newcastle platform 11, with Brough on its destination blind, on 2/10/87. Below the driver's window can be seen the letters BG, the depot code for Hull Botanic Gardens, which at the time maintained a fleet of DMUs for East Yorkshire. In most cases, the top and bottom centre lights were smoothed away without a trace upon refurbishment, but this cab front exhibits the welded plates. Graeme Phillips Collection.
Although not seen, 53169 of C995 is still carrying a Tyne & Weir PTE motif on its bodyside showing its Heaton Traction origins, when seen at Cardiff Central in 1990. Mac Winfield.
M50356 (and presumably M56111) arrives at Stalybridge with the 14:30 from Stockport (with a tail lamp at this end? maybe changing platforms?) on 31 August 1976. On the left the 12:13 Scarborough-Liverpool Lime Street departs with refurbished liveried E50169 on the rear. Robert Thomas.
E51841 and E50169 at Skipton on 7/6/81. John Carter.