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Vehicle 59551


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30502
Diagram: 624

Allocations

20/06/59 New to 62A (Thornton Junction)
w/e 04/07/59 Transferred to Leith Central
w/e 01/08/59 Transferred to 62B (Dundee)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
May-73Depot code changeHN
w/e 25/05/74 Transferred to LA (Laira)
w/e 07/06/75 Transferred to BR (Bristol Bath Road)
16/05/82 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
03/10/82 Transferred to RG (Reading)
04/02/85 Transferred to LA (Laira)
11/05/86 Stored S.
p/e 31/01/87 Withdrawn from LA (Laira)

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 25/08/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51453 59551 51523 As delivered to 62A - 20th June 1959
110 51453 59551 51523 Listed at 66C - 1972
51453 59551 51523 Noted 06/04/72 - in Glasgow Central1
51453 59551 51523 Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central2
P804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 11th July 1974 - at Exeter ex-works in blue/grey livery recently transferred from ScR to WR.
P804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 02/09/74 - at Penzance3
B804 51452 59551 51523 Listed at BR - 01/05/1976
B804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 07/09/76 - on Bristol Philips March depot3
B804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 22/10/76 - on 2C34 1537 Bristol TM-Cardiff
B804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 23/01/77 - on 1O69 1140 Cardiff-Salisbury with C504
B804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 08/02/77 - on 2B28 1105 Cardiff-Taunton
B804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 11/02/77 - on 2B28 1105 Cardiff-Taunton
B804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 30/06/77 - on 2B62 1955 Cardiff-Bristol TM with B465
B804 51452 59551 51523 Listed at BR - 31st December 1977
B804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 05/04/78 - on 2C34 1528 Bristol TM-Cardiff
B804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 17/12/1978 - Two Bodmin Lions Club return trips from Bodmin Road (now Parkway) to Wadebridge B803+B804
B804 51452 59551 51523 Noted 08/02/1980 - At Bristol Temple Meads4
B804 51452 59551 51523 Listed at BR - 03/03/80
Spare 59551 Listed at RG - 15/12/1982
L450 51352 59551 51394 Noted 23/07/83 - at Newbury Racecourse3
P480 51312 59551 51327 Formation change - circa Jul-85 - add W59551 (ex-spare)
P480 51312 59551 51327 Noted 16/11/19855
59551 Listed at WR - Summer 1986 - stored at LA

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 101 DMU at an unknown location

Unknown date

Class 101 TCL W59551 - date/location unknown. It had been refurbished at Swindon in August 1978 while a Bristol vehicle. Paul Redmond.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: June 1975

Set number: P804

Metro-Cammell Class "101" Local Passenger 3-car dmu Set No.P804 (51452 and presumably 59551 + 51523) in Rail Blue & Grey livery with all yellow front ends,departing Newport (High St.) in a clouds of diesel smoke on a Cardiff (Central) - Bristol (Temple Meads) service, 06/75. Hugh Llewelyn.

DMU

Date: 23rd February 1976

Set number: B804

Class 101 DMU set B804 (presumably with 51452 + 59551 visible) is seen in Bath station on 23 February 1976. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 3rd July 1976

Set number: B804

Looking recentlt repainted Class 101 DMU set B804 (presumably 51452 + 59551 + 51523) is seen at Kings Norton on 3 July 1976. Phillip Malin.

DMU

Date: 17th March 1979

Set number: B804

Met-Cam Class 101 set B804 (presumably 51523 + 59551 + 51452) at a snowy Cheltenham station, 17th March 1979. Paul James.

DMU

Date: July 1979

Set number: B804

Bristol based Class 101 set B804 (presumably 51452 + 59551 + 51523) at Oldfield Park station in July 1979. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 23rd July 1979

Set number: B804

Refurbished Class 101 set B804 (presumably 51523 + 59551 + 51452) arrives at Castle Cary from Yeovil on 23 July 1979. Nicholas T Smith.

DMU

Date: 8th September 1979

Set number: B804

A nine-car DMU formation at Castle Cary on 8 September 1979. Class 101 set B804 (presumably 51523 + 59551 + 51452) leads followed by two Class 119s. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 1981

Set number: B804

Met-Camm DMU set B804 (presumably 51523 + 59551 + 51452) arrives into Frome station during 1981. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 1981

Set number: B804

Bristol-based Met-Camm three-car set B804 (presumably 51452 + 59551 + 51523) is seen at Frome during 1981. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 2nd April 1982

Set number: B804

Class 101 DMU set B804 (presumably 51523 + 59551 + 51452) in Worcester Shrub Hill station on 2 April 1982. Tony Watson.

DMU

Date: 8th July 1985

Set number: P480

The Plymouth Laira Depot allocated class 118 DMU sets were often reduced to 2-car sets for working some of the Cornish branches likes Gunnislake, Newquay or St.Ives but when deployed further east in Devon 3-car sets were preferable because of loadings on the likes of the Paignton, Barnstaple and Exmouth branches. So here class 118 set P480 (51312+51327) has been augmented with a class 101 intermediate trailer (59551). The 3-car set is seen at Exmouth prior to departure with train 2B84 the 18.14 to Exeter St.Davids on 8 July 1985. Adrian Nicholls.

DMU

Date: 27th July 1985

Set number: P480

The first passenger train for some years to Okehampton, Class 118 DMU no P480 is seen on arrival with a special from Exmouth on 27 July 1985. The set has a Met-Camm centre car, the vehicles are presumably 51327 + 59551 + 51312. Robert28194.

DMU

Date: circa 1985

Set number: P480

A Class 118/101 hybrid DMU (presumably 51327 + 59551 + 51312) arrives into Barnstaple Junction - the driver has already changed one of the marker lights to red for the return journey. The image is undated but the Met-Camm centre-car dates it to circa late 1985. Ian Dinmore/railarchive.org.uk.