Vehicle 59573
Class 111
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30615
Diagram: 625
Allocations
| 3w/e 04/06/60 | New to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 3w/e 04/06/60 | Transferred to | South Gosforth | |
| Feb-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
| 22/09/75 | Withdrawn from | GF (South Gosforth) |
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51435 | 59523 | 59573 | 51505 | Transfer to South Gosforth - 3w/e 04/06/60 | |||||
| 51439 | 59539 | 59573 | 50142 | Noted 08/09/66 - at York1 | |||||
| 51437 | 59526 | 59573 | 51507 | Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1 | |||||
| 51438 | 59573 | 51506 | Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle1 | ||||||
| N414 | 51506 | 59046 | 59573 | Noted 29/08/74 - at Darlington, other power car unrecorded, set number on solebar of 515062 | |||||
| 51438 | 59573 | 51506 | Noted 11/1974 - at Newcastle 3 | ||||||
| 51438 | 59573 | 59046 | 51506 | Noted 24/08/75 - in Newcastle Central2 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: circa March 1960
An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative DZ224) showing E51550 + E59573 and presumably E51560 on a test run at Aldridge. Of note is that records show the power cars went new to 56G on 08/03/60, the buffet car went new to 50B but not until May 1960. Metropolitan Cammell.
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.