Vehicle 59024
Class 116
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30212
Diagram: 555
Allocations
| Aug-57 | New to | 84E (Tyseley) | |
| 01/01/63 | Boundary change | 84E | transferred from WR to LMR stock |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 2A | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | TS | |
| 18/07/82 | Withdrawn from | TS (Tyseley) | - collision damage |
59024 was involved in the following incident:
27/05/82 - Alvechurch
Collision involving Class 116 / Ballast train
Info from Martin Baumann, Bromsgrove Advertiser
The 12.24 Redditch - Barnt Green was hit by a ballast train as it arrived into Alvechurch station. Two of the Class 116 vehicles 50066 + 59024 would be withdrawn.
Disposal
Scrapped by F Berry, Leicester at Redditch
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50074 | 59024 | 50116 | As delivered to WR - August 1957 | ||||||
| 324 | 50055 | 59024 | 50106 | Noted Aug-601 | |||||
| TYS310 | 50075 | 59024 | 50108 | Listed at Tyseley - circa Oct-60 | |||||
| 50078 | 59024 | 50100 | Noted 14/04/69 - in Birmingham New Street2 | ||||||
| TY524 | 50078 | 59024 | 50109 | Listed at 2A - 16/08/70 | |||||
| 50078 | 59024 | 50109 | Noted 02/10/1971 - at Tyseley depot3 | ||||||
| 50078 | 59024 | 50109 | Noted 03/05/72 - in Birmingham New Street2 | ||||||
| 50078 | 59024 | 50109 | Noted 24/03/73 - in Birmingham New Street2 | ||||||
| 50078 | 59024 | 50109 | Noted 14/07/1973 - at Birmingham New Street3 | ||||||
| TY524 | 50078 | 59024 | 50109 | Noted 12/06/76 - at Leicester4 | |||||
| TS524 | 50066 | 59024 | 50103 | Noted circa 01/19785 | |||||
| TS524 | 50066 | 59024 | 50103 | Listed at TS - 12/08/79 | |||||
| TS524 | 50066 | 59024 | 50103 | Noted circa 01/19815 | |||||
| TS524 | 50066 | 59024 | 50103 | Noted circa 10/19815 | |||||
| TS524 | 50066 | 59024 | 50103 | Noted circa 05/19825 |
Formation Sources
1: Andrew Cope
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
Images:
circa 1969
Commuters dismount from a Derby suburban set into the platform at Birmingham Moor Strett on a frosty morning circa 1969. Not many passengers used the first class on M59024, as they seem to be the onlty two doors not open. Stuart Mackay Collection.
circa 1969
Derby suburban sets in Birmingham Moor Street circa 1969. The trailer composite is M59024 which spent its complete 25 year career allocated to Tyseley. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 30th May 1978
Set number: TS524
Tyseley Class 116 set TS524 (50103 and presumably 59024 + 50066) arriving at Four Oaks on 30 May 1978. Michael Mensing.