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Vehicle 59090


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

15/10/57 New to South Gosforth
3w/e 04/06/60 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
3w/e 24/11/62 On loan to 17A (Derby Etches Park)
3w/e 29/12/62 Ex-loan back to 55H (Neville Hill)
4w/e 25/05/68 Transferred to South Gosforth
May-73Depot code changeGF
25/12/77 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
Jan-81 Transferred to DE (Dundee)
01/03/82 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
circa Jul-82 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
11/08/82 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
18/08/82 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
May-85 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
11/07/88 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
p/e 10/11/90 Sector Change to ED (Eastfield) PXXZ
27/11/90 Withdrawn from ED (Eastfield) PXXZ

Notes

02/02/82 - 101 304 (51224 + 59090 + 50241) was hauled north from Derby by 31 195 on 2 February 1982.
2nd April 1986 - Seen in Strathclyde orange & black livery

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 30/04/1982 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50242 59090 59096 50243 As delivered to South Gosforth - 15th October 1957
50242 59090 59096 50243 Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 11/06/60
50242 59090 59096 50243 Transfer to 17A - 3w/e 24/11/62 - on loan
50242 59090 59096 50243 Transfer to 55H - 3w/e 29/12/62 - ex-loan LMR
50229 59090 59576 51510 Noted 12/08/1971 - at York1
50229 59576 59090 51510 Noted 11/1974 - at Newcastle 2
50229 59090 59576 50197 Noted 24/08/75 - in Newcastle Central3
50229 59090 59576 50197 Noted 06/09/75 - at Darlington4
50229 59090 59574 51510 Noted 28/03/1977 - at Carlisle2
51235 59090 50245 Noted 29/08/1979 - 0n 13:22 Dundee to Edinburgh2
304 51224 59090 50241 Listed at DE - 01/02/81
101304 51224 59090 50241 Noted circa 02/19825
51224 59090 50241 Noted 02/02/82
101304 51224 59090 50241 Listed at ED - 13/06/82
51224 59090 50241 Transfer to ED - 11/08/82
51224 59090 50241 Transfer to HA - 18/08/82
101319 51245 59090 53141 Listed at HA - 17/06/84
101304 51224 59090 53241 Listed at HA - 25/03/85
101304 51224 59090 53241 Transfer to AY - May-85 - from HA
101304 51224 59090 53241 Noted circa Jul-85 - now in SPTE livery
51224 59090 52025 Noted 2nd April 1986
101304 51224 59090 53241 Listed at Ayr - Summer 1986 - Strathclyde livery
101304 51224 59090 52020 Noted 5th June 1986
53210 59090 53598 Noted 17th July 1986
53210 59090 53598 Noted 31st July 1986
455 53210 59090 53598 Listed at Ayr - August 1986
53210 59090 53598 Noted 6th September 1986
59090 Noted 11/10/1986 - at Ayr Depot5
101304 51224 59090 53241 Listed at AY - 23/03/87
101304 51224 59090 53241 Listed at AY - Jan-88
101304 51224 59090 53241 Listed at ED - circa August 1988
101304 51224 59090 53241 Noted circa 12/19895
51224 59090 53241 Noted 01/08/906

Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Leonard Rogers
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Graeme Phillips

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Snailwell

12th May 1991

Class 101 TSL 59090 and some Met-Camm bogies at Snailwell on 12th May 1991. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 10th October 1981

A Metro Cammell 3 car class 101 caught behind the turntable at Dundee depot on 10th October 1981. The two vehicles on the left appear to be 51224 and 59090. Bruce Galloway.

DMU

Date: 17th November 1985

Set number: 101

Class 101 set 53160 + 59090 + 51224 stabled in Haymarket depot on the 17th November 1985. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: 1986

Set number: 455

Hybrid DMU set 455 (53598 + 59090 + 53210) departs from Shotts station with the 09:32 Glasgow Central - Edinburgh service on an unknown date in 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 23rd July 1986

Set number: C300

53122 leads C300 (presumably with 59090 + 53080) approaching Radyr station with an ECS for Cardiff on 23 July 1986. Image was from the Steve Davies Collection. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 29th July 1986

Set number: 104455

Class101 DMBS 53210 is seen having just arrived on the Ayrshire side of Glasgow Central Station on the 29th July 1986. Formally allocated to Norwich MPD she still carries her 86 depot number at the top of her centre cab window. Class 101 TSL 59090 forms the centre car in Strathclyde red and black livery with Class 104 53598 bringing up the rear. Together they formed Scottish Region Set No. 104455. All had been scrapped by August 1989 Bob Woolnough.

DMU

Date: 30th August 1986

Set number: 455

BRCW Class 104 DMBS 53598 is the trailing power car in mixed Set 455 seen here leaving Prestwick station in August 1986. The wires are in place for the Ayrshire electrification which would go live the following month. The centre car is a Metro-Cammel vehicle (59090). A typically mixed set in the final fling of the DMU in Scotland. Andrew McConnell.

DMU

Date: September 1986

Set number: 455

Indian summer of the DMU in Ayrshire. Set 455 (presumably 53598 + 59090 + 53210) works with a Class 120 set at Ayr station in September 1986. Andrew McConnell.

DMU

Date: 15th September 1986

Kilwinning on the afternoon of 15/9/86 with a mixed cl.101/104 set (53210/59090/53598) leaving on the 16.09 to Glasgow (15.45 ex-Ayr). Note the mix of liveries on this Ayr set, which, typically for this time, is a real mish-mash of whatever the depot could cobble together. So, the leading DMBS in blue and grey is recently arrived from Hull, the class 101 trailer is in Strathclyde colours and the class 104 DMBS at the rear, a Newton Heath cast-off, is in plain blue. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: 101304

101304 (51224 + 59090 + 53241) seen in Glasgow Central circa 1988/9. Andrew McConnell.

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: 101304

101304 (53241 + 59090 + 51224) seen in Glasgow Central circa 1988/9. Andrew McConnell.

DMU

Date: 31st May 1988

Set number: 304

Class 101 set 304 in Strathclyde PTE orange, consisting of vehicles 53241 (front) + 59090 + 51224, at Edinburgh Waverley station on 31st May 1988. Photograph by my Dad, David Slack. Uploaded by Andrew Slack David Slack.

DMU

Date: 13th May 1989

Set number: 101304

On 13 May 1989 Strathclyde Met-Camm Class 101 DMU set 101304 - cars 53241 + 59090 + 51224 departs Edinburgh Waverley with the 16:13 service to Inverkeithing. Neil Smith.

DMU

Date: March 1990

Set number: 101304

101304 (53241 closest, presumably with 59090 + 51224) at Dunblane in March 1990. Colin Brooks.