Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30262
Diagram: 630
23/07/57 | New to | 54A (Sunderland) | |
3w/e 30/08/58 | Transferred to | South Gosforth | |
Feb-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
3w/e 11/09/76 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
28/09/86 | Transferred to | CA (Cambridge) | |
18/01/87 | Transferred to | RG (Reading) | |
Jun-87 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) | |
4w/e 03/12/88 | Sector Change to | NWRX | |
23/11/90 | Withdrawn from | OO (Old Oak Common) NXXZ | |
p/e 05/01/91 | Reinstated | OO (Old Oak Common) NWRX | |
p/e 09/11/91 | Sector Change to | OO (Old Oak Common) NXXZ | |
05/12/91 | Withdrawn from | OO (Old Oak Common) NXXZ |
56070 - original number
54070 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
09/10/76 - AWS fitted
Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn
50218 | 56070 | As delivered to 54A - 23rd July 1957 | |||||||
50233 | 56070 | Noted 02/06/1973 - at Newcastle1 | |||||||
50259 | 56070 | Noted 26/08/74 - at Newcastle Central2 | |||||||
50259 | 56070 | Noted 28/08/74 - in Newcastle Central2 | |||||||
51209 | 56070 | Noted 11/1974 - at Newcastle 3 | |||||||
N116 | 50259 | 56070 | Noted 07/01/75 - in Newcastle Central, set number only on 560702 | ||||||
50259 | 56070 | Noted 01/04/1976 - at Newcastle 3 | |||||||
51437 | 56070 | Transfer to NL - 3w/e 11/09/76 | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted circa 01/19774 | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted 12/08/77 - on Morecambe - Leeds service with E56197 + E50619 | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted 11/08/80 - at Morecambe | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted 16/01/19824 | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted circa 10/19824 | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds4 | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Noted 12/06/83 - at Skipton | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Noted circa 10/19834 | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Noted 16/05/19844 | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Listed at NL - 01/01/85 | |||||||
03 | 51212 | 54070 | Formation change - CA - circa Dec-86 | ||||||
03 | 51212 | 54070 | Noted 15/01/87 - at Norwich, set number only on 512122 | ||||||
51212 | 54070 | Noted 31st January 1987 | |||||||
201 | 51212 | 54070 | Noted 27/06/1987 - at St. Pancras5 | ||||||
L201 | 51212 | 54070 | Listed at OO - Aug-87 | ||||||
L201 | 51212 | 54070 | Noted 01/08/19874 | ||||||
L201 | 51212 | 54070 | Listed at OO - Oct-87 | ||||||
201 | 51212 | 54070 | Noted 28/12/19874 | ||||||
201 | 51212 | 54070 | Noted 28/05/88 - at Henley on Thames | ||||||
201 | 51212 | 54070 | Noted circa 06/19884 | ||||||
L201 | 51212 | 54070 | Listed at OO - 15/05/89 | ||||||
L201 | 51212 | 54070 | Noted circa 10/19904 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton
54070 + 53227 at Skipton on June 12, 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.
One of the Class 101 Metro-Cammell sets that usurped the Pressed Steel monopoly on the Paddington local services in the 1980s. The unit (set L201, presumably 54070 + 51212) is seen outside the old carriage sheds at Old Oak Common, alongside one of the local Class 121 Pressed Steel 'Bubble Cars' W55023. Chris McKee.
Class 101 54070, set number 201, is seen at Tyseley on 07.02.1988. Andy Cole.
Blue and Grey liveried with a small NSE 'flash' on the front, two car Met-Camm 101 Set 201; 54070 and 51212. Arriving in Henley-on-Thames station on 28 May 1988. Alistair Fyffe.
The front end of blue and grey two car Met-Camm class 101 set 201 (54070 + 51212) wasn't in the best of condition with several rusty patches showing when it was photographed just after leaving Kings Sutton station on 14 June 1988 while working an afternoon Oxford to Banbury local service. Within a few months it was repainted into full NSE livery and received an "L" prefix to the set number in line with other units operated by NSE. Peter Tandy.
Class 101 DMU set L201 (presumably 54070 + 51212) in Sonning Cutting on 17 September 1988. Henley On Thames is on the destination blind. Image taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 101 dmu set L201 (51212/54070) at Henley-on-Thames on 22 April 1989. These two vehicles (new in 1958 and 1957 respectively) were formed up as a 2-car unit while allocated to Cambridge (CA) in 1987. Unit L201 was withdrawn from service on 5 December 1991 and the unit was scrapped by MC Metals in Glasgow. Lewis Bevan.
NER Haltwhistle Station on the Newcastle - Carlisle line, and junction with the branch to Alston (soon to close), 03/76. Passing through is 2 X 2-car Metro Camm Class 101 dmus and a van on a Carlisle (Citadel) - Newcastle (Central) service. The dmu cars included E50259 and E56070. Hugh Llewelyn.
A four-car Class 101 formation (front set E50259 + E56070) with a van on the rear arrives at Haltwhistle with a Carlisle - Newcastle service in March 1976. Hugh Llewelyn.
E50227 + E56070 with Class 108 E56197 + E50619 at Morecambe on the 12th August 1977 on a Leeds working. Robert Frise.
E50227 + E56070 at Morecambe on a rainy 11th August 1980. Robert Frise.
From left to right - 54070 (L201), 55022 (carrying set number 122), 55027 and 55020 at Reading on the 29th January 1988. The bubbles are each carrying a different livery. Ian McDonald.
NSE liveried Met-Camm set L201 (presumably 51212 + 54070) arrives at Appleford with the 4.42pm Didcot - Oxford service on May 24, 1990. Michael Mensing.
Met-Camm set L201 (51212 closest, presumably with 54070) is seen at Southall in July 1990 with Slough on the destination blind. Stuart Mackay Collection.