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Vehicle 59115


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30277
Diagram: 624

Allocations

The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 50304 during the unknown period are:

Feb-58 New to 5D (Cockshute)
Apr-58 Transferred to 18A (Toton)
May-58 Transferred to 3E (Monument Lane)
20/06/60Depot code change21E
Sep-63Depot code change2H
w/e 07/01/67 Transferred to 2A (Tyseley)

Then the allocations for 59115 are:

23/09/87 Transferred to RG (Reading)
p/e 28/01/89 Sector Change to RG (Reading) NSBX
14/05/90 Transferred to CA (Cambridge) NNEX
p/e 07/12/91 Transferred to RG (Reading) NWRX
23/02/93 Transferred to HA (Haymarket) RAHA
04/10/93 Transferred to HQ (Headquarters) RFXX
15/10/93 Withdrawn from HQ (Headquarters) RFXX

Refurbished

At Derby Works dated 20/05/1976 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50304 59115 50322 As delivered to 5D - February 1958
50304 59115 50338 Noted circa Nov-67 - in plain blue with full yellow ends
50304 59115 50338 Noted 01/04/69 - in Birmingham New Street1
50304 59115 50338 Noted 19/04/1969 - R.C.T.S. (West Midlands Branch) The Forester Railtour. 50338 had yellow cab doors.
50304 59115 50338 Noted 05/11/70 - at Birmingham New Street1
50304 59115 50338 Noted 21/11/70 - R.C.T.S. The Cotswold Edge Railtour
50304 59115 50338 Noted 05/06/72 - in Birmingham New Street1
50304 59115 50338 Noted 25/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street2
50317 59115 50327 Noted 08/09/76 - on Tyseley depot3
50317 59115 50327 Noted 12/01/1978 - Cardiff Central4
50317 59115 50327 Noted 17/06/1978 - Unnamed Midland Railfans tour from Birmingham to Derby Doncaster York and Sheffield
50317 59115 50327 Noted 01/08/79 - at Norwich3
TS412 50317 59115 50327 Listed at TS - 12/08/79
TS412 50317 59115 50327 Noted circa 01/19815
TS550 50082 59115 50124 Noted circa 10/19815
TS550 50082 59115 50124 Noted circa 09/19825
TS550 50082 59115 50124 Listed at TS - Jan-83
TS550 53082 59115 53124 Listed at TS - 14/07/83
TS606 53082 59115 53124 Noted circa 12/19835
53093 59115 53818 Noted 29/06/85 - at Norwich3
TS626 53818 59115 53093 Noted circa 09/19855
53818 59115 53093 Noted 07/12/85 - on 17:28 Wolverhampton - Shrewsbury service6
53818 59115 53093 Noted 08/01/86 - on 16:00 Leamington - Birmingham Moor Street service6
TS626 53818 59115 53093 Noted circa 04/19865
TS626 53818 59115 53093 Noted circa 05/19865
TS626 53818 59115 53093 Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986
TS626 53818 59115 53093 Noted 22/04/1987 - at Crewe7
53093 59115 53898 Noted 20/06/87 - at Norwich3
T323 53818 59115 53093 Listed at TS - Jul-87
L837 51437 59115 53751 Listed at RG - circa Jan-88
L574 51056 59115 51095 Formation change - RG - w/e 07/02/88 - 59115 added
L831 51211 59115 53265 Formation change - OO - 2w/e 13/03/88 - 59115 (ex-L574) replaced 59526 (to L574)
L831 51211 59115 53265 Noted circa 06/19885
L408 53477 59115 51385 Noted 07/08/1988 - At Moreton in Marsh on train to Oxford
L831 51211 59115 53265 Listed at - 15/05/89
L831 51211 59115 59072 53265 Noted 10/05/90 - at Ely with 51207 + 54405
L700 53207 59115 53296 Noted circa 08/19905
L700 53207 59115 53296 Listed at CA - 21/01/91
L700 53207 59115 53296 Noted 20/07/1991 - Branch Line Society The Humber Navigator 3 Railtour
L700 53207 59115 53296 Noted 02/11/1991 - Badger Railtours The Fletton Avoider L700+L830
53477 59115 Noted 25/02/92 - at Royal Oak, third vehicle not recorded 3
53477 59115 51385 Noted 06/03/92 - on 11:40 Reading - Paddington8
53477 59115 51385 Noted 09/04/92 - on 10:35 Reading - Newbury8
L408 53477 59115 51385 Listed at RG - 24/02/92 - NSE NWRX pool
L408 53477 59115 51385 Noted 20/05/1992 - 1735 Reading to Bicester Town
L408 53477 59115 51385 Noted circa 08/19925
L408 53477 59115 51385 Listed at RG - 12/08/92
L408 53477 59115 51385 Listed at RG - November 1992 - Sector NWRX
53477 59115 51385 Noted 09/11/92 - on 10:26 Gatwick - Reading8
874 53315 59115 53330 Noted 21/06/93 - at Perth

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Martin Baumann
7: Robert Chilton
8: David Bellamy

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Kenilworth

1st October 1961

A three-car Met-Camm DMU (the centre car seems to be M59115) is seen arriving into Kenilworth station with the 5.35pm Birmingham New Street-Rugby(M) service where it will reverse to reach Coventry, diverted as electrification works. The two-car set on the right forms the 6pm Leamington-Coventry. Sunday 1st October 1961. Michael Mensing.

Class 101 DMU at Stourbridge Junction

9th April 1977

Set number: TS412

Refurbished Class 101 set TS412, with 59115 and 50317 visible, at Stourbridge Junction on 9 April 1977. Michael Mensing.

Class 101 DMU at Haymarket depot

29th May 1994

Already withdrawn for eight months and awaiting eventual removal for scrapping at Springburn, 59115 sits in the depot yard at Haymarket on the evening of 29/5/94. Hiding behind the fuel tank on the right is 59302 in RR (Scotrail) livery. This latter vehicle had been removed from set 101 693 the previous August when the two power cars were transferred to Corkerhill. After spending some months as part of an unrefurbished unit, it was now surplus to requirements but would not be officially withdrawn until Jan. 1995, probably because it had only been refurbished in Summer 1992. Leonard Rogers.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 19th April 1969

A Met-Camm DMU formed M50304 + 59115 + 50338 with RCTS “The Forester" railtour at Drakelow on the Leicester Goods Line on 19 April 1969. The headboard notes it was the 200th RCTS tour, which ran from Coventry to the Nottingham / Leicester area. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 9th April 1977

Set number: TS412

Refurbished Class 101 DMU set TS412 comes of the Stourbridge Town branch at Stourbridge Junction on 9 April 1977. The two furthest vehicles are 59115 and 50317. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 9th April 1977

Set number: TS412

Refurbished Met-Camm set TS412 (presumably 50327 + 59115 + 50317) in Stourbridge Junction station on 9 April 1977. Note the closest vehicle has the BR logo on the side and not the WM logo. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 9th April 1977

Set number: TS412

Class 101 DMU set TS412 in Stourbridge Junction station on 9 April 1977. The closest two vehicles are 50317 and 59115. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 17th June 1978

Class 101 50327 + 59115 + 50317 at Doncaster on 17/6/78 while working a Midlands Railfans charter. Chris Lings.

DMU

Date: circa 1981

Set number: TS50

Class 116 set TS550 in Spring Road station, undated. Closest is presumably 50082 which was painted into blue/grey in September 1980. The centre car, the the white/blue stripe refurbished livery, is probably 59366. It was replaced in the set sometime in 1981 by Class 101 59115. Ian Dinmore/railarchive.org.uk.

DMU

Date: July 1985

Set number: TS626

Hybrid 116/101/116 3-car dmu set TS626 (53093 and presumably 59115 + 53818) in BR Rail Blue & Grey with all yellow front ends, with another pair of 3-car units (9 cars altogether!) at Newport on a Cardiff - Leicester service, 07/85. Hugh Llewelyn.

DMU

Date: 8th December 1989

Set number: L831

With the temperature well below freezing in the small hours and frost on the windows Metro-Cammell DMU set L831 (51211 + 59115 + 53265) has just been started by the pre-heat man. It is seen on December 8, 1989 standing on Reading depot poking out of the loco servicing shed. In recent years this whole site has been swept away by the remodeling of the junction onto the Basingstoke/Berks & Hants line. Adrian Nicholls.

DMU

Date: 1990

NSE liveried 53296 + 59115 +53207 at Ely sometime in 1990. Nicholas Youngman.

DMU

Date: 10th May 1990

Set number: L831

A 4-car Class 101 set ran for a few weeks in May 1990. Seen here L831 53265 + 59072 + 59115 + 51211 and 2 car 51207 + 54405 with 2H25. Seen from Ely North box, 10.05.90. Nicholas Youngman.

DMU

Date: 10th October 1990

Set number: L700

This NSE-liveried 3-car DMU (set L700, 53207 and presumably 59115 + 53296) had just arrived in one of Cambridge station's bay platforms when photographed on 10th October 1990. Andrew Walker.

DMU

Date: 19th January 1991

Set number: L700

Class 101 set L700 53296 + 59115 + 53207 at Kings Lynn bound for Cambridge on 19th January 1991. Before it's use on the Lynn line L700 had been on Barking to Gospel Oak duties but only as a 2 car set. Nicholas Youngman.

DMU

Date: 18th August 1991

Set number: L700

Set L700 (53296 + 59115 + 53207) a 3 car Network South East liveried Class 101 Metro-Cammell dmu is seen at Kings Lynn, on a hot Saturday afternoon, 18th August 1991. Andrew J Crowther.

DMU

Date: October 1991

Set number: L831

A DMU formatino with set L831 (presumably 53265 + 59072 + 59115) closest departing from Littleport station in October 1991. George Woods.

DMU

Date: 2nd November 1991

Set number: L700

Badger Railtours was a niche provider operating tours in East Anglia and I believe was run by a group of BR employees at Bishops Stortford raising money for local charities. They ran several tours in the early 1990's and covered some illusive branches such as that seen here to Duxford. The "Fletton Avoider" railtour operated with 2x3-Car class 101 DMU sets with set L700 (53296+59115+53207) seen here leading at the dry chemicals reception sidings in Duxford Ciba-Geigy Works on 2 November 1991. This short branch to Duxford left to the West Anglia mainline south of Whittlesford station. Ciba-Geigy were heavily reliant on the wagon load Speedlink Network so much of their rail activity stopped when BR pulled the plug on Speedlink. The site is now owned by Huntsman Chemicals and retains a rail connection but has been disused for many years. Adrian Nicholls.

DMU

Date: 2nd October 1992

Set number: L408

A classic Paddington shot. Set L408 contains 53477 (104), 59115 (101) and 51385 (117). It has arrived on the 22:42 from Reading, 2/10/92. Gazza Prescott.

DMU

Date: 21st June 1993

Set number: 874

Class 101 set 874 at Perth station on 21/6/93, just after arrival, probably from Edinburgh. The nearest vehicle is W53315, the centre car (in Network SouthEast livery) is 59115 and the furthest vehicle is W53330. Kenneth Leiper.

DMU

Date: 12th July 1993

Set number: 874

53315 leads set 874 (53315/59115/53330) as it departs from Waverley station as the 16.34 to Glenrothes with Thornton on 12/7/93. During Spring and Summer 1993, Haymarket had a handful of Laira and Reading hand-me-downs at work – others were 53308/59125/53331 and 53305/59118/51246 – along with its quartet of refurbished cl.101 triples (101 691-4), mainly on Fife peak hour workings like this. By the end of the year, they were all gone, superseded by the refurbished cl.117’s let go by Tyseley once the Cross City line electrification was finally complete. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: 12th July 1993

Set number: 829

On 12/7/93, set 829 (53305/59118/51246) is seen stabled in platform 18 at Waverley station. 53305 is nearest to the camera. Behind 829 and fairly much out of sight is set 991 (53308/59125/53331). Later they will form the 17.27 to Perth via Cardenden and Ladybank. During Spring and Summer 1993, Haymarket had a handful of Laira and Reading hand-me-downs at work – another was 53315/59115/53330 – along with its quartet of refurbished cl.101 triples (101 691-4), mainly on Fife peak hour workings like this. By the end of the year, they were all gone, superseded by the refurbished cl.117’s let go by Tyseley once the Cross City line electrification was finally complete. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: 12th July 1993

Set number: 991

53331 is seen at the rear of a six-car rake of 101's stabled in platform 18 at Waverley station on 12/7/93. The train comprises sets 991 (53331/59125/53308) and 829 (51246/59118/53305) and will later form the 17.27 to Perth via Cardenden and Ladybank. During Spring and Summer 1993, Haymarket had a handful of Laira and Reading hand-me-downs at work – another was 53315/59115/53330 – along with its quartet of refurbished cl.101 triples (101 691-4), mainly on Fife peak hour workings like this. By the end of the year, they were all gone, superseded by the refurbished cl.117’s let go by Tyseley once the Cross City line electrification was finally complete. Notice that 53331 still bears its yellow stripe over the first class saloon from its NSE days, even though ScotRail would have declassifed the saloon. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: 27th July 1993

Set number: 991

The 17.05 Fife "Outer Circle" train (Edinburgh to Edinburgh via Dunfermline, Thornton and Kirkcaldy) leaves Waverley station on 27/7/93. It is formed of set 991 (53331/59125/53308), transferred to Haymarket five months previously from Reading, where it had been set L838 with Network South East. Its stay at Haymarket would not last much longer - it was transferred to Longsight the following month and put into departmental use there another month after that. During Spring and Summer 1993, Haymarket had a handful of Laira and Reading hand-me-downs at work – others were 53315/59115/53330 and 53305/59118/51246 – along with its quartet of refurbished cl.101 triples (101 691-4), mainly on Fife peak hour workings like this. By the end of the year, they were all gone, superseded by the refurbished cl.117’s let go by Tyseley once the Cross City line electrification was finally complete. Leonard Rogers.