Vehicle 59094
Class 101
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30265
Diagram: 626
Allocations
| 01/10/57 | New to | South Gosforth | |
| Feb-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
| 2w/e 20/11/76 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
| 13/05/84 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
| 11/05/86 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
| 06/07/86 | Transferred to | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 28/09/86 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated 17/12/1976 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50238 | 59088 | 59094 | 50239 | As delivered to South Gosforth - 1st October 1957 | |||||
| N411 | 50239 | 59087 | 59094 | 51505 | Noted circa 19711 | ||||
| 50177 | 59094 | 50267 | Noted 24/08/74 - at Doncaster2 | ||||||
| N411 | 50239 | 59087 | 59094 | 51505 | Noted 24/08/75 - in Thornaby station, set number on all cars2 | ||||
| 50239 | 59094 | 59087 | 51505 | Noted 06/11/1976 - at Newcastle 3 | |||||
| 50140 | 59087 | 59094 | 51514 | Noted 31/12/76 - at Leeds4 | |||||
| 50140 | 59087 | 59094 | 51514 | Noted 05/01/77 - at Leeds4 | |||||
| 50140 | 59087 | 59094 | 51514 | Noted 30/07/78 - on Lancaster - Morecambe shuttle | |||||
| 51514 | 59087 | 59094 | 50140 | Noted circa 10/19821 | |||||
| 53140 | 59094 | 51514 | Noted circa 01/19841 | ||||||
| 53183 | 59094 | 53235 | Noted circa 02/19861 | ||||||
| 53632 | 59094 | 53750 | Noted 29/09/19861 |
Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Leonard Rogers
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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: March 1976
Metro-Cammell Class "101" Local Passenger 4-car dmu Nos.E50238 (101/1), E59094 (168), E59088 (162), E50239 (101/1), all of the 1957 batch with 2-character headcode panel, in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends, leaving Middlesbrough on a service to Thornaby, Stockton, Billingham, West Hartlepool, Sunderland and Newcastle (Central), 03/76. Hugh Llewelyn.
Date: August 1977
A Met-Camm formation in the white / blue stripe livery in York station on August 1977. Closest is a 111 four-car. The slide had three numbers noted: E50288 which seems to be closest, 59094 and 50140 which are a 101 TBSL and DMCL, possibly the far set. 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.