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Vehicle 59042

Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30250
Diagram: 622

Allocations

17/10/56	New to	South Gosforth
3w/e 16/05/59	Transferred to	51A (Darlington)
4w/e 03/10/59	Transferred to	South Gosforth
Feb-64	Depot code change	52J
May-71	Transferred to	51A (Darlington)
May-73	Depot code change	DN
17/04/78	Transferred to	ED (Eastfield)
w/e 07/10/78	Transferred to	DE (Dundee)
p/e 28/11/81	Transferred to	AY (Ayr)
circa Aug-82	Transferred to	HA (Haymarket)
06/05/90	Transferred to	CH (Chester) PCHX
p/e 13/10/90	Sector Change to	CH (Chester) PXXZ
22/02/91	Withdrawn from	CH (Chester) PXXZ

Notes

4th December 1986 - Seen in Strathclyde orange & black livery
2nd June 1988 - Hauled from Newton Heath depot to Humberstone Yard via Toton depot by 31 230

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 15/10/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50138	59042	59049	50139	As delivered to South Gosforth - 17th October 1956
	50238	59042	59051	50239	Transfer to South Gosforth - Sep-59
	50138	59042	59049	50139	Noted 11/09/65 - at Darlington¹
	50142	59049	59042	51510	Noted 06/04/67 - at York¹
	50192	59075	59042	50268	Noted 10/09/72 - at Newcastle¹
	51205	59042	50144		Noted 09/06/73 - at Darlington²
	51205	59042	59064	50179	Noted 29/06/73 - at Newcastle¹
	50144	59042	59083	50170	Noted 07/06/77 - on 13.20 Darlington – Saltburn³
182	51455	59042	50138		Listed at ED - mid-May-78
182	51463	59042	50192		Noted 08/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley⁴
315	51241	59042	50260		Listed at DE - 01/02/81
101315	51241	59042	50260		Listed at AY - 13/06/82
	55000	59042	53241		Noted circa 12/1983⁴
101311	51235	59042	53186		Listed at HA - 17/06/84
101315	51241	59042	53260		Listed at HA - 25/03/85
314	51240	59042	53269		Noted circa 10/1985⁴
101315	51241	59042	53260		Listed at Haymarket - Summer 1986
314	51240	59042	53239		Listed at Haymarket - August 1986
307	51231	59042	53239		Formation change - p/e 17/09/86
101307	51231	59042	53141		Noted circa 11/1986⁴
	51249	59042	53491		Noted 4th December 1986
101315	51241	59042	53260		Listed at HA - 23/03/87
101315	51241	59042	53260		Noted 04/05/1987⁴
101315	51241	59042	53260		Listed at HA - Jan-88
101315	51241	59042	53260		Listed at HA - circa August 1988
101315	51241	59042	53260		Noted circa 12/1989⁴

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Phil Shatford
4: Eddie Knorn

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 30th May 1988

Set number: 101315

DMBS 51241 leads set 101315 into Burntisland station with the 13:52 Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh service on May 30th, 1988, presumably with 59042 + 53260. Hamish Stevenson.

Date: 11th September 1988

Set number: 101315

Class 101 set 101 315 at Kilmarnock, 51241 leading. The other two vehicles should be 59042 & 53260. The John Walker building behind is now gone, it was the home of Johnnie Walker whisky. 11 September 1988. Andrew McConnell.

Date: 5th July 1989

An unusual view of the west end of Waverley station, Edinburgh, on the morning of 5/7/89. No trains were moving this day - it was the day of one of the weekly strikes staged by the NUR that summer. Almost every platform is filled with stabled stock. From left to right there are : an HST in plat.19, 52053 coupled to 59248 and 52059 (108 380) in plat.18, a Mk.2 DVT (9709) in plat.17, 53260 coupled to 59042 and 51241 (101 315) in plat.16, nothing visible in plat.15, 150 244 in plat.14, 53933 (coupled to 51566) in plat.13, 53164(cl.101) coupled to 59800(cl.107) and 53733, forming 120 535, in plat.12 and another HST in plat.11. Leonard Rogers.

Date: 14th July 1989

Set number: 101315

Set 101 315 (51241/59042/53260) leaves Dunfermline forming the 18.27 Edinburgh - Cardenden on 14/7/88. Nearest the camera is 51241. Leonard Rogers.

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