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Vehicle 50313 / 53313


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: 30275
Diagram: 523

Allocations

Mar-58 New to 5B (Crewe South)
May-58 Transferred to 3E (Monument Lane)
20/06/60Depot code change21E
Sep-63Depot code change2H
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
2w/e 08/10/66 Transferred to 2H (Monument Lane)
w/e 07/01/67 Transferred to 2A (Tyseley)
May-73Depot code changeTS
circa Jun-84 Transferred to CH (Chester)
06/04/86 Transferred to NC (Norwich)
11/05/86 Withdrawn from NC (Norwich)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50313 - original number
53313 - from Jul-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

circa Jul-72 - AWS fitted

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50313 59124 50331 As delivered to 5B - March 1958
TY409 50313 59123 50331 Noted 18/05/1968 - R.C.T.S. (West Midlands Branch) South Midlands Railtour
50313 59124 50331 Noted 01/04/69 - in Birmingham New Street1
50313 59124 50331 Noted 17/04/69 - at Selly Oak1
TY410 50313 59124 50331 Listed at 2A - 16/08/70
50313 59124 50332 Noted 05/11/70 - at Birmingham New Street1
50313 59124 50331 Noted 19/05/72 - at Birmingham New Street1
50313 59122 50329 Noted 25/02/73 - at Tyseley1
50313 59124 50331 Noted 30/06/1973 - at Bristol Temple Meads2
50313 59124 50331 Noted 05/07/74 - at Birmingham New Street1
50313 59124 50331 Noted 13/03/1976 - at Solihull3
TY410 50313 59124 50331 Noted 08/09/76 - in Birmingham New Street4
TS410 50313 59125 50331 Listed at TS - 12/08/79
TS410 50313 59125 50331 Noted circa 01/19815
TS410 50313 59125 50331 Noted circa 08/1981 - operating Watford to St Albans branch line5
TS410 50313 59125 50331 Noted circa 10/19815
TS409 50313 59126 50237 Noted circa 06/19825
TS409 50313 59126 50237 Listed at TS - Jan-83
TS409 50313 59126 50237 Noted circa 04/19835
TS409 53313 59126 53237 Listed at TS - 14/07/83
TS409 53313 59126 53237 Noted circa 09/19835
53313 59130 53330 Noted 11/11/1983 - on Staffordshire Railtours Cannock Chaser with 53325-59528-53306
TS400 53313 59118 53330 Noted circa 02/19845
TS402 53313 59116 53333 Noted circa 05/19845
53313 59116 53333 Noted 07/12/85 - on 11:40 Crewe - Phwelli service with 51903 + 544866
53313 59116 53333 Noted circa 01/19865
53313 54353 Formation change - CH - circa Mar-86
53313 54353 Transfer to NC - 06/04/86 - from CH
87 53313 54353 Formed at NC 06/04/86
53313 54353 Noted 08/04/86 - at Norwich4

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Martin Baumann

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Beechwood Tunnel

25th June 1961

M50313 leads a three and two-car Met-Camm formation working the 12.35pm Birmingham New Street - Rugby service seen approaching Beechwood Tunnel on 25 June 1961. Michael Mensing.

Class 101 DMU at Birmingham New Street

1963

Met-Camm DMBS M50313 seen in Birmingham New Street with a Lichfield service sometime in 1963. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 101 DMU at near Beechwood

12th May 1964

A three-car Met-Camm DMU (it appears to be M50313 at the front) near Beechwood on May 12, 1964. Michael Mensing.

Class 101 DMU at Sutton Coldfield

8th June 1977

Set number: TY410

Class 101 DMU set TY410 (DMBS M50313 closest) passes through Sutton Coldfield with a southbound ECS on 8 June 1977. Michael Mensing.

Class 101 DMU at Worcester Shrub Hill

1st October 1979

Set number: TS410

50313 at Worcester Shrub Hill on 01/10/79. Steve Jones.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 2nd March 1968

An early rail-blue liveried class 101 (M50331) leading a three-car set (the other two being M59124 + M50313) at Redditch on a circuitous Birmingham University Transport Society railtour, 2/Mar/1968. Robert Chilton.

DMU

Date: 18th May 1968

Set number: TY410

Class 101 set TY410 with 50331, 59123 and 50313 on the RCTS (West Midland Branch) South Midlands railtour at Higham Ferrers goods yard, 18/May/1968. Robert Chilton.

DMU

Date: 12th November 1983

53330 with 59130 + 53313 and 53325 + 59528 + 53306 on the Staffordshire Railtours 'The Cannock Chaser' on 12/11/83, taken on platform 6 at Stafford looking towards Crewe. Andrew McConnell.