Vehicle 59076
Class 101
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30258
Diagram: 627
Allocations
| 15/02/57 | New to | 51A (Darlington) | |
| 4w/e 04/12/65 | Transferred to | 52J (South Gosforth) | |
| 4w/e 26/03/66 | Transferred to | 51A (Darlington) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | DN | |
| p/e 26/11/79 | Transferred to | NR (Norwich) | |
| Dec-83 | Depot code change | NC | |
| 12/05/85 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
| 11/05/86 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
| 28/09/86 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) |
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated 25/01/1980 released in blue/grey liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50178 | 59063 | 59076 | 50179 | As delivered to 51A - 15th February 1957 | |||||
| 50184 | 59076 | 50262 | Transfer to South Gosforth - 4w/e 04/12/65 | ||||||
| 50184 | 59076 | 50262 | Transfer to 51A - 4w/e 26/03/66 | ||||||
| 50188 | 59072 | 59076 | 50263 | Noted 04/09/71 - at Leeds1 | |||||
| 50170 | 59076 | 50193 | Noted 11/1974 - at York 2 | ||||||
| 50191 | 59076 | 50261 | Transfer to NR - Dec-79 | ||||||
| 91 | 50191 | 59076 | 50261 | Noted 15/02/80 - at Norwich3 | |||||
| 91 | 50191 | 59076 | 50261 | Listed at NR - circa Mar-80 - refurbished (b/g) | |||||
| 91 | 50179 | 59076 | 50191 | Noted 26/06/80 - at Norwich3 | |||||
| 92 | 53179 | 59076 | 53750 | Noted circa 01/19844 | |||||
| 53196 | 59076 | 53171 | Noted circa 10/19854 | ||||||
| 53171 | 59076 | 53196 | Noted 22/10/85 - at Newcastle | ||||||
| 53240 | 59076 | 53162 | Noted circa 02/19864 | ||||||
| 53162 | 59076 | 53195 | Noted 26/04/1986 - C.J. Wolstenholmes The Chevy Chase Railtour 53162-59076-53195 + 51219-54056 + 53196-53252 | ||||||
| 53263 | 59076 | 53151 | Noted circa 08/19864 | ||||||
| 53151 | 59076 | 53263 | Noted 19th August 1986 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: March 1976
Metro-Cammell Class "101" Local Passenger 4-car dmu Nos.E50188 (101/1), E59063 (162), E59076 (168), E50262 (101/1 ex-2-car "power twin unit), all of the 1957 batch without headcodes, in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends, at Whitby Town on a service to Middlesbrough via Battersby, 03/76. Hugh Llewelyn.
Date: March 1976
Metro-Cammell Class 101 4-car DMU E50188 + E59063 + E59076 + E50262 at Whitby Town on a service to Middlesbrough via Battersby in March 1976. Hugh Llewelyn.
Date: 24th October 1981
Set number: 93
Class 101 DMU set 93 with the Fakenham & Dereham Railway Society "Mid-Anglia Rambler" railtour at Barnwell Jct on 24 October 1981. The vehicle are noted as being E50151 + E59076 + E50261. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 22nd October 1985
E53196 + E59076 + E53171 are seen in platform6 at Newcastle on 22/10/1985. Graeme Phillips Collection.