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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)
01/01/63Boundary change84Etransferred from WR to LMR stock
Sep-63Depot code change2A
May-73Depot code changeTS
18/07/82 Withdrawn from TS (Tyseley) - collision damage

59024 was involved in the following incident:


Image on facebook of the vehicles afterwards.

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 Two of the Class 116 vehicles 50066 + 59024 would be withdrawn.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
TYS310 50075 59024 50108 Listed at Tyseley - circa Oct-60
50078 59024 50100 Noted 14/04/69 - in Birmingham New Street1
TY524 50078 59024 50109 Listed at 2A - 16/08/70
50078 59024 50109 Noted 02/10/1971 - at Tyseley depot2
50078 59024 50109 Noted 03/05/72 - in Birmingham New Street1
50078 59024 50109 Noted 24/03/73 - in Birmingham New Street1
50078 59024 50109 Noted 14/07/1973 - at Birmingham New Street2
TY524 50078 59024 50109 Noted 12/06/76 - at Leicester3
TS524 50066 59024 50103 Noted circa 01/19784
TS524 50066 59024 50103 Listed at TS - 12/08/79
TS524 50066 59024 50103 Noted circa 01/19814
TS524 50066 59024 50103 Noted circa 10/19814
TS524 50066 59024 50103 Noted circa 05/19824

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

Images:

Class 116 DMU at Birmingham Moor Street

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.

Class 116 DMU at Birmingham Moor Street

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:

DMU

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.