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Vehicle 59049


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30251
Diagram: 626

Allocations

17/10/56 New to South Gosforth
Feb-64Depot code change52J
May-73Depot code changeGF
w/e 16/09/79 Transferred to DE (Dundee)
27/05/81 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
Dec-84 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
11/07/88 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
06/05/90 Transferred to CH (Chester) PCHX
p/e 13/10/90 Sector Change to CH (Chester) PXXZ
17/06/91 Withdrawn from CH (Chester) PXXZ

Notes

9th August 1986 - Seen in Strathclyde orange & black livery
22/04/91 - withdrawn vehicles noted at Chester: 53431, 53442, 53494, 53512, 53516, 53517, 53534, 53536, 59065, 59137, 59525; also soon to be W SC59049 and SC59074

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 02/12/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50138 59042 59049 50139 As delivered to South Gosforth - 17th October 1956
50138 59042 59049 50139 Noted 11/09/65 - at Darlington1
50142 59049 59042 51510 Noted 06/04/67 - at York1
50149 59049 59109 50191 Noted 31/08/71 - at Carlisle1
50149 59049 59109 50191 Noted 24/04/1973 - at Scarborough2
50149 59109 59049 50191 Noted 09/06/73 - at Darlington3
N407 50149 59049 59109 50191 Noted 07/01/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number not on 59049 but on other three3
N407 50149 59109 59049 50191 Noted 24/08/75 - in Newcastle Central, set number on 50149 and 59109 only3
50160 59049 50268 Transfer to DE - w/e 16/09/79
363 50185 59049 50194 Listed at DE - 01/02/81
101363 50185 59049 50194 Transfer to HA - 27/05/81
101363 50185 59049 50194 Listed at HA - 13/06/82
101363 53144 59049 53746 Noted 15/04/84
101363 53144 59049 53746 Noted 23/05/84
101363 53241 59049 53746 Listed at HA - 17/06/84
101363 53185 59049 53194 Transfer to AY - Dec-84 - from HA
101363 53185 59049 53194 Listed at AY - 25/03/85
52007 59049 52023 Noted circa 02/19864
101363 53185 59049 53194 Listed at Ayr - Summer 1986 - Strathclyde livery
101363 53160 59049 53194 Noted 31st July 1986
363 53160 59049 53194 Listed at Ayr - August 1986
53722 59049 53160 Noted 9th August 1986
53194 59049 53160 Noted 11/10/1986 - at Haymarket Station4
51987 59049 53160 Noted circa 02/19874
107427 51987 59049 53160 Noted 28th February 1987
101363 53185 59049 53194 Listed at AY - 23/03/87
51987 59049 53160 Noted 24/03/19874
101363 53194 59049 53160 Noted circa 04/19874
53160 59049 53194 Noted 24th April 1987
52019 59049 53194 Noted circa 05/19874
101363 53185 59049 53194 Noted 26/05/19874
101363 53185 59049 53194 Listed at AY - Jan-88
101363 53194 59049 53185 Noted circa 05/19884
101363 53185 59049 53194 Listed at ED - circa August 1988
101363 53194 59049 53185 Noted circa 12/19894

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Glasgow Central

circa 1987

A Met-Camm trailer brake second in Glasgow Central. Believed to be Sc59049, circa 1987. Andrew McConnell.

Class 101 DMU at Snailwell

15th June 1991

Met-Camm TBS Sc59049 in Snailwell on 15th June 1991. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 101 DMU at Snailwell

15th June 1991

Met-Camm TBS SC59049 in Snailwell on 15th June 1991. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 15th April 1984

Set number: 101363

Class 101 units on Dundee depot on the 15th April 1984. Nearest the camera is set 101363 consisting of Sc53144 + Sc59049 + Sc53746. Kevin Law.

DMU

Date: 23rd May 1984

Set number: 101363

Set 101363 at Stirling on 23/05/1984. Car numbers are 53144 + 59049 + 53746. The leading car unusually retains the central marker lights (top and bottom) and the top one even looks like it might be switched on, though there is no glass lens - both these central lights were usually removed upon refurbishment. The full length uninterrupted cantrail rain strip suggests the vehicle has been refurbished. Graeme Phillips Collection.

DMU

Date: circa 1985

Set number: 101

The support arms, but not the wires, for the Ayrline Electrification have been installed at Troon setting the date to circa 1985. The Glasgow - Ayr electrified service came into operation in September 1986. 53160 and 59049 make up the first two vehicles in the Class 101 set. Andrew McConnell.

DMU

Date: 15th August 1988

Set number: 101306

Met-Camm sets 101306 (presumably 51228 59086 53243) and 101363 (presumably 53194 59049 53185) at Stirling on August 15, 1988. Colin Brooks.

DMU

Date: 22nd May 1991

Set number: CH616

M53442, M53431, Sc59074, Sc59525, Sc59049 at Chester await being sent for scrap, 22-5-91. Kevin Dowd.