Vehicle 59346
Class 116
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30365
Diagram: 555
Allocations
| 4w/e 25/01/58 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Cathays) | |
| Jan-61 | Depot code change | 88B | |
| Mar-62 | Depot code change | 88M | |
| Nov-64 | Transferred to | 86A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Jan-65 | Transferred to | 84A (Laira) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | LA | |
| 2w/e 20/03/76 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
| 28/10/84 | Withdrawn from | TS (Tyseley) |
Refurbished
At Swindon Works dated 04/02/1978 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50838 | 59346 | 50891 | As delivered to WR - 4w/e 25/01/58 | ||||||
| 50838 | 59346 | 50891 | Transfer to 84A - Jan-65 | ||||||
| 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | Noted circa Sep-67 - in blue with small yellow panel | ||||||
| LA311 | 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | circa Feb-70 84A - Same formation, renumbered from LA309 | |||||
| 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | Noted 29/08/1970 - Worked 15.25 Ilfracombe to Exeter St Davids with 51329-59481-513141 | ||||||
| LA311 | 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | Listed at Laira - circa May-71 | |||||
| P355 | 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | Noted 03/07/1973 - at Plymouth2 | |||||
| 51312 | 59346 | 51327 | Noted 04/07/1973 - at Penzance2 | ||||||
| P355 | 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | Noted 02/09/74 - at Exeter3 | |||||
| P355 | 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | Noted 11/07/75 - on 13:50 St. Ives - St Erth | |||||
| 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | Noted 30/04/1976 - at Birmingham 4 | ||||||
| 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | Noted 12/06/76 - at Stratford-upon-Avon3 | ||||||
| 50874 | 59346 | 50907 | Noted 08/09/76 - at Leamington Spa3 | ||||||
| TS544 | 50854 | 59346 | 50907 | Noted circa 01/19781 | |||||
| TS511 | 50819 | 59346 | 50915 | Noted 10/02/1979 - at Birmingham New Street5 | |||||
| TS511 | 50819 | 59346 | 50915 | Listed at TS - 12/08/79 | |||||
| TS511 | 50819 | 59346 | 50915 | Noted circa 01/19811 | |||||
| TS545 | 50819 | 59346 | 50915 | Noted circa 10/19811 | |||||
| TS545 | 50819 | 59346 | 50915 | Noted circa 05/19821 | |||||
| TS545 | 50819 | 59346 | 50915 | Noted 14/09/1982 - Noted on 17.45 Manchester Piccadilly to Stafford service.1 | |||||
| TS545 | 50819 | 59346 | 50915 | Listed at TS - Jan-83 | |||||
| TS545 | 50819 | 59346 | 50915 | Noted circa 01/19831 | |||||
| TS545 | 53819 | 59346 | 53915 | Listed at TS - 14/07/83 | |||||
| TS545 | 53819 | 59346 | 53915 | Noted circa 09/19831 |
Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Shayne Lewis
Images:
21st March 1974
Class 116 TC W59346 at St Ives on 21 March 1974. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 20th May 1972
Set number: P355
Set P355 at St. Ives with a St. Erth train on the 20th May 1972. According to the Hugh Longworth book the vehicles would be 50854, 59346 and 50907. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: 21st March 1974
Set number: P355
Class 116 DMU set P355 (W50907 + W59346 + W50854) at St Ives on 21 March 1974. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: April 1975
Set number: P355
DMU set P355 (presumably 50907 + 59346 + 50854) at Exmouth terminus before returning to Exeter, August 1975. Tony Watson.
Date: 11th July 1975
Set number: P355
Derby Works bullt Class 116 DMU with coach nos. 50854, 59346 + 50907 waits at St. Ives before transporting holidaymakers (and the odd basher) back to St Erth with the 1350 departure on July 11, 1975. Note the patches under the cab windows. Suthen Softy.
Date: June 1978
Set number: TS545
Class 116 set TS545 (presumably 50819 + 59346 + 50915, the power cars converted back to passenger use after being in parcel service on the Western Region) seen at Washwood Heath in June 1978. Michael Mensing.
Date: unknown
Set number: TS545
Tyseley Class 116 set TS545, led by DMBS M50819 (and presumably with 59346 + 50915) is seen heading for Kidderminster in Refurbished Livery of white with blue band, late 1970s / early 1980s. At the time BR ran some through services over the SVR from New Street on bank holidays. Graeme Phillips Collection.
Date: 8th March 1986
Set number: TS545
A few miles to the south-west of Langley Green is the station at Rowley Regis. By the time this photograph was taken on 8 March 1986, freight traffic to the various industrial termini hereabouts had finished, but the trackwork and and signalling were still pretty much intact. This picture shows the inevitable class 116 DMU (TS545, presumably 50915 + 59346 + 50819) on a Birmingham New Street to Stourbridge Junction stopping train approaching the station. Peter Tandy.