Vehicle 59108
Class 111
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30269
Diagram: 623
Allocations
| 23/01/58 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
| w/e 30/04/67 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
| 15/05/83 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
| circa 1984 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
| 13/04/86 | Transferred to | CA (Cambridge) | |
| 27/04/86 | Withdrawn from | CA (Cambridge) |
Notes
27th December 1987 - Seen in Tinsley Yard
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated circa 11/1979 released in blue/grey liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50288 | 59108 | 50278 | As delivered to 56G - 23rd January 1958 | ||||||
| 50288 | 59108 | 50278 | Noted 05/08/66 - at Wakefield Kirkgate1 | ||||||
| 50288 | 59108 | 50278 | Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50277 | Noted 07/03/1969 - Leeds2 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50276 | Noted 09/05/1969 - Leeds2 | ||||||
| 51440 | 59086 | 59108 | 50245 | Noted 27/06/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||||
| 51440 | 59086 | 59108 | 50562 | Noted 05/07/1970 - Bridlington2 | |||||
| 50287 | 59108 | 50277 | Noted 15/08/1970 - at York4 | ||||||
| 50287 | 59108 | 50277 | Noted 29/08/70 - at York1 | ||||||
| 50288 | 59108 | 50276 | Noted 18/12/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Huddersfield1 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 18/09/1971 - at Huddersfield5 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 03/05/74 - at Cambridge6 | ||||||
| 50279 | 59108 | Noted 29/08/74 - at York, third vehicle unrecorded6 | |||||||
| 50280 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 01/09/74 - at Leeds6 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 09/09/1975 - at Doncaster 4 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 09/01/76 - at Cambridge6 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50275 | Noted 27/02/76 - at Cambridge6 | ||||||
| 50275 | 59108 | 50286 | Noted 06/03/76 - at Hull1 | ||||||
| 50275 | 59108 | 50286 | Noted 22/03/76 - at Brough1 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 05/01/77 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 19/08/1978 - Leeds7 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 14/10/1979 - Doncaster Works7 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 31/01/81 - at Doncaster | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 04/07/1981 - at Leeds City7 | ||||||
| 50286 | 59108 | 50279 | Noted 15/05/1982 - at York7 | ||||||
| 50169 | 59075 | 59108 | 50161 | Noted circa 10/19823 | |||||
| 51573 | 59108 | 51582 | Noted 1983 | ||||||
| 50169 | 59075 | 59108 | 50161 | Noted circa 02/19833 | |||||
| EP521 | 53720 | 59108 | 53677 | Noted circa 12/19833 | |||||
| EP503 | 51573 | 59108 | 51582 | Noted circa 01/19843 | |||||
| 51573 | 59108 | 51582 | Noted 20/04/1985 - at Manchester Victoria 7 | ||||||
| 51573 | 59108 | 51582 | Noted 06/09/1985 - at Preston 7 | ||||||
| EP503 | 51573 | 59108 | 51582 | Noted 13/09/85 - at Blaenau Ffestiniog, NH set carrying number EP503 | |||||
| 51573 | 59108 | 51582 | Noted 28/10/1985 - at Preston 7 | ||||||
| 51573 | 59108 | 51582 | Noted 13/11/1985 - 13:21 Chester-Man Vic8 | ||||||
| 51573 | 59108 | 51582 | Listed at NH - circa Jan-86 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Jeremy Goodyear
6: Gerald Brown
7: Martin Lumley
8: Chris Moxon
Images:
March 1978
Met-Camm Class 111 TSL E59108 at Sheffield in March 1978. The seats are covered in Trojan moquette and it was allocated to Neville Hill. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: circa January 1958
A scene that epitomises the early years of DMU travel in Yorkshire. A Rolls-Royce powered Metropolitan-Cammell 3-car unit with E50278 trailing stands in platform 1B at Huddersfield forming a service to Wakefield Kirkgate on a misty winter's day in the 'pre-whisker' era of the late-1950s, possibly shortly after delivery in January 1958 (to Hammerton Street). The other two vehicles are presumably 59108 + 50288. Gordon Edgar Collection.
Date: 18th August 1983
Set number: EP521
A Class 120 DMU with a Met-Camm centre car in Nottingham station on 18 August 1983. It is set EP521 with 53720 closest, the other two vehicles are presumably Class 111 59108 and 53677. Bill Fraser.
Date: 18th August 1983
Set number: EP521
53720 and presumably 59108 and 53677 are seen in Nottingham (Midland still on the platform lamp) station on 18 August 1983. Bill Fraser.
Date: 13th September 1985
Set number: EP503
EP503 contains M51582 + M59108 + M51573 when seen at Blaenau Ffestiniog on the 13th September 1985. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: 13th November 1985
A Class 120/101 hybrid, 51582 + 59108 + 51573, working the 13.21 Chester-Manchester Victoria at Helsby, looking south west from Bank House Lane bridge towards the station, on 13/11/85. Anthony Griffiths.
Date: 4th July 1988
Part of 54390 nearest then 59108, 55939 (51582), 55934 (51573), 54423, 54193 and pair of Class 20's. Seen near Kiln Lane Ely on July 4, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.