Vehicle 59087
Class 101
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30264
Diagram: 622
Allocations
| 24/09/57 | New to | South Gosforth | |
| 4w/e 31/07/60 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 05/12/70 | Transferred to | 52J (South Gosforth) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
| 2w/e 20/11/76 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
| 09/01/83 | Transferred to | DY (Derby Etches Park) | |
| 09/03/86 | Withdrawn from | DY (Derby Etches Park) |
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated circa 12/1976 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50236 | 59087 | 59093 | 50237 | As delivered to South Gosforth - 24th September 1957 | |||||
| 50236 | 59087 | 59093 | 50237 | Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 31/07/60 | |||||
| 51548 | 59087 | 51558 | Noted 27/07/68 - in Leeds City1 | ||||||
| N411 | 50239 | 59087 | 59094 | 51505 | Noted circa 19712 | ||||
| N411 | 50239 | 59087 | 59094 | 51505 | Noted 24/08/75 - in Thornaby station, set number on all cars3 | ||||
| 50239 | 59094 | 59087 | 51505 | Noted 06/11/1976 - at Newcastle 4 | |||||
| 50140 | 59087 | 59094 | 51514 | Noted 31/12/76 - at Leeds1 | |||||
| 50140 | 59087 | 59094 | 51514 | Noted 05/01/77 - at Leeds1 | |||||
| 50140 | 59087 | 59094 | 51514 | Noted 30/07/78 - on Lancaster - Morecambe shuttle | |||||
| 51514 | 59087 | 59094 | 50140 | Noted circa 10/19822 | |||||
| 53696 | 59087 | 53663 | Noted circa 12/1983 - 53696 labelled EP514, 53663 labelled EP5022 | ||||||
| EP520 | 53711 | 59126 | 59087 | 53659 | Noted circa 03/19842 | ||||
| EP520 | 53711 | 59087 | 53659 | Noted 28/07/84 - at Norwich3 | |||||
| spare | 59087 | Formation change - DY - Aug-85 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
Images:
June 1984
TSL M59087 is the only Met-Camm vehicle in the row of vehicles in the carriage platforms on the middle road of Lincoln St Marks in this June 1984 image, the others are Swindon Cross-Country vehicles. Curly42.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 31st August 1975
E50239 leads a twelve-car Met-Camm formation at Shildon 31 August 1975. These shuttles on the day of the 150th cavalcade ran to Darlington, and the November 1975 edition of The Railway Observer (p351) lists this formation as 50239 + 59087 + 59094 + 51505 / 50295 + 56075 / 51438 + 59573 + 59086 + 51506 / 56083 + 51209. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 30th July 1978
E50140 (+ E59087 + E59094 + E51514) sits beside M56251 (unseen are M50968 + M50955 + M56234) at Lancaster. The 101 is on the Lancaster - Morecambe shuttle, the 108 to Millom (Cumbrian coast), 30/7/78. Robert Frise.
Date: 24th April 1986
Set number: B590
Class 119 DMU set B590 (51058 + 59418 + 59087) in Bristol Temple Meads station on 24 April 1986. Keith Miller.