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Vehicle 50225 / 53225

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: 30261
Diagram: 523

Allocations

25/06/57	New to	54A (Sunderland)
25/06/57	On loan to	9A (Longsight)
3w/e 03/08/57	Ex-loan back to	54A (Sunderland)
3w/e 30/08/58	Transferred to	South Gosforth
Feb-64	Depot code change	52J
May-73	Depot code change	GF
w/e 23/07/78	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
29/06/86	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
27/07/86	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50225 - original number
53225 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 27/04/1979 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50225	56077	As delivered to 54A - 25th June 1957
	50225	56077	Transfer to 54A - 3w/e 03/08/1957 - ex-loan LMR
	50225	56085	Noted 18/08/70 - at Carlisle¹
	50225	56050	Noted 31/08/71 - at Haltwhistle²
	50225	56050	Noted 28/08/74 - at Felling¹
N109	50225	56050	Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number only on 50225¹
	50225	56050	Noted 06/09/75 - at Darlington²
	50225	56409	Noted 22/03/80 - with E51226 + E56370 on Newcastle - Middlesbrough service
	50225	56388	Noted 14/05/82 - on Newcastle - Haltwhistle service
	50225	56078	Noted circa 02/1983³
	50225	56388	Noted 05/03/83 - at Bensham, Gateshead
	53225	54392	Noted 12/04/86 - on 17:35 Newcastle - Darlington

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Eddie Knorn

Images:

May 1975

Class 101 DMBS no. E50225 leads a class 101/108 formation at Carlisle in May 1974. The 101 DTCL appears to be E56050 and the Class 108 DTLC E56202. Graeme Phillips Collection.

5th March 1983

E50225 and E56388 pass Bensham, Gateshead with a service from the Tyne Valley line heading into Newcastle on 05/03/1983. They are about to head into a tunnel under the East Coast Main Line. Norwood Coking Plant, the site of which became part of the Gateshead Garden Festival seven years later in 1990, can be seen in the background. Graeme Phillips Collection.

12th April 1986

53225 + 54392 at Monkwearmouth with the 17:35 Newcastle - Darlington service on April 12, 1986. Hamish Stevenson.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 31st August 1971

Haltwhistle at 11.45 on 31.8.71. A train from Carlisle to Newcastle, led by 50610, runs into the platform on the right. In the branch platform on the left, a two-car 101 (50225/56050) waits to leave for Alston at 12.00. Leonard Rogers.

Date: 22nd March 1980

E56370 + E51226 / E50225 + E56409 with a Newcastle - Middlesbrough service at North Shore, Stockton, on March 22, 1980. John Carter.

Date: 14th May 1982

Class 101 cars E56388 + E50225 at Scotswood, Newcastle heading westbound with a service for Haltwhistle on 14/05/1982. This section of track was closed on 04/10/1982, from which time all Tyne Valley trains travelled over the former freight lines via Norwood Junction - maintenance costs of the Scotswood Bridge were a major deciding factor in the closure of this section. Graeme Phillips Collection.

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