Vehicle 50337 / 53337
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: 30276
Diagram: 621
Allocations
| 4w/e 19/04/58 | New to | 3E (Monument Lane) | |
| Apr-58 | On loan to | 18A (Toton) | |
| circa Jun-58 | Ex-loan back to | 3E (Monument Lane) | |
| 20/06/60 | Depot code change | 21E | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 2H | |
| 3w/e 31/10/64 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
| 11/09/65 | Transferred to | 16C (Derby Etches Park) | |
| 4w/e 05/11/66 | Transferred to | 2H (Monument Lane) | |
| w/e 07/01/67 | Transferred to | 2A (Tyseley) | |
| 2w/e 18/03/67 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | CH | |
| 3w/e 19/05/79 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
| p/e 24/12/83 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
| 05/05/89 | Withdrawn from | CH (Chester) PCHX |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50337 - original number
53337 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Disposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50319 | 59130 | 50337 | As delivered to 3E - April 1958 | ||||||
| 50319 | 59130 | 50337 | Transfer to 9D - 3w/e 31/10/64 | ||||||
| 50320 | 59131 | 50337 | Noted 11/05/73 - at Wolverhampton1 | ||||||
| 50406 | 59131 | 50337 | Noted 07/09/1973 - 50406 running in place of 50320 (which was running with 56080)2 | ||||||
| 50320 | 59131 | 50337 | Noted 01/02/1977 - Worked 2D66 11.50 Wolverhampton to Chester2 | ||||||
| TS405 | 50314 | 59127 | 50337 | Listed at TS - 12/08/79 | |||||
| TS405 | 50314 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted circa 01/19812 | |||||
| TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted circa 10/19812 | |||||
| 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted 08/05/1982 - 50222-59127-50337 + 50320-59130-50330 Special train from Banbury to Spalding | ||||||
| TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted 03/07/82 - at Norwich, DMBS in B/G, others in blue3 | |||||
| TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted 26/09/82 - at Norwich3 | |||||
| TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Listed at TS - Jan-83 | |||||
| TS406 | 50222 | 59127 | 50337 | Noted circa 01/19832 | |||||
| TS406 | 53222 | 59127 | 53337 | Listed at TS - 14/07/83 | |||||
| 53222 | 53337 | Noted circa 01/19842 | |||||||
| 53222 | 53337 | Noted circa 01/19862 | |||||||
| 53222 | 53337 | Noted 26/04/86 - on 10:50 Shrewsbury - Chester with 51911 + 54496 / 53938 + 544114 | |||||||
| 53222 | 53337 | Listed at Chester - Summer 1986 - Relief set | |||||||
| 53222 | 53337 | Noted circa 02/19872 | |||||||
| 290 | 53222 | 53337 | Noted 09/04/19882 | ||||||
| CH290 | 53222 | 53337 | Listed at CH - May 1988 | ||||||
| 53222 | 53337 | Noted 21/05/88 - on 16:12 Manchester Piccadilly - Cardiff4 | |||||||
| CH290 | 53222 | 53337 | Noted circa Jul-88 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Gerald Brown
4: Martin Baumann
Images:
26th May 1979
Alongside refurbished Class 108's & Class 101's, a tidy-looking Class 101 Driving Motor Composite Lavatory (DMCL) M50334 (a three-car set formed of M50334/M59172/M50316) and based at Chester, was stabled inside the depot building at Llandudno Junction on May 26th 1979. Martyn Hilbert.
1st October 1979
47507 & M50337 at Worcester Shrub Hill on 01/10/79. Steve Jones.
1st October 1979
Set number: TS405
M50337 (presumably with 59127 + 50314) at Worcester Shrub Hill on 01/10/79. Steve Jones.
8th June 1986
Displaying 'Special' on the blinds, M53337 leads three two-car Class 101 sets (the other vehicles being M53222 + M51177 + M54351 + M51187 + M54322) at Stoke to form the 08:48 to Llandudno on 8/6/86. Hamish Stevenson.
10th April 1989
Set number: CH290
Class 101 53337, carrying set number CH290, is running with 53318 when seen at Chester on 10 April 1989. Sparegang.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: unknown
A fairly rare photo of a Park Royal formed into a (hybrid) 3-car set. 50406 is with Met Camm Class 101 vehicles 59131 & 50337,at Helsby on the 09:38 Runcorn - Chester service (date unrecorded). Notes on the back of the original photo record that 50406 replaced 50320 in the set, the latter being subsequently paired with 56080. Anthony Griffiths.
Date: August 1978
Metro-Cammell Class "101" Local Passenger 3-car dmu Nos.M50319 (101/2), M59130 (171), M50337 (101/1), of the 1958 batch without headcode panels, in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends, with a refurbished Class 101 in white and blue livery attached) on a Bath - Bristol Temple Meads - Weston supe Mare service at Chelvey, near Nailsea & Backwell, 08/78. Hugh Llewelyn.
Date: 1987
The photo was taken at Miles Platting in the summer of 1987. Here Class 101 Met-Camm built M53222 (original number E50222) is descending the steep incline into Manchester Victoria. I don't know the number of the trailing car but it could be M53337 as zooming in on the high res scan shows M53xx7. It was new to Sunderland (54A) on 13th June 1957 but had many other allocations during its life, When the photo was taken it was allocated to Chester (CH) from where it was withdrawn in 1989. It went into Departmental Stock on the 28th August 1991 where it became part of Lab Coach 19 "Iris 2" and carried set number 901002. It was fortunately acquired by the West Somerset Railway in 2008 and is now preserved at the Plym Valley Railway. John Marsh.
Date: 13th May 1989
The Class 101's to the right are M53318 (DMBS) and M53337 nearest. Vic Berry's on May 13, 1989. Nicholas Youngman.