Vehicle 59574
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) | |
| 4w/e 31/07/60 | Transferred to | South Gosforth | |
| Feb-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
| 4w/e 27/04/68 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| Oct-68 | Transferred to | 55F (Hammerton Street) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | HS | |
| w/e 13/09/75 | Transferred to | GF (South Gosforth) | |
| 23/07/78 | Transferred to | IS (Inverness) | |
| Feb-80 | Transferred to | DE (Dundee) | |
| Feb-81 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
| p/e 18/04/81 | Transferred to | AY (Ayr) | |
| 15/08/81 | Stored S. | MH (Millerhill) | |
| 30/09/81 | Withdrawn |
Notes
14/09/78 - noted in Glasgow Works in blue-and-grey with 'Buffet' on its sides (in Rail Alphabet)
Summer 1981 - On ScR the three remaining Class 111 trailer seconds 59574/7/8 were placed in store during the late summer 1981 and were seen at Millerhill during November 1981.
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51439 | 59531 | 59574 | 51509 | Transfer to South Gosforth - 4w/e 31/07/60 | |||||
| 51437 | 59574 | 59526 | 51507 | Noted 08/09/66 - at York1 | |||||
| 50229 | 59090 | 59574 | 51510 | Noted 28/03/1977 - at Carlisle2 | |||||
| 376 | 51474 | 59574 | 51481 | Listed at HA - 01/02/81 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
Images:
circa May 1960
A Met-Camm image showing buffet car E59574 when new. It was delivered to Neville Hill in May 1960. Metropolitan Cammell.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 10th March 1979
Set number: 301
On the 10th March 1979 set 301 is led by SC51787 and has a Met-Camm centre car (probably 59574, it seems to have buffet on the side). It's on the 15:50 from Aberdeen at Insch. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: 18th June 1979
Set number: 301
A service for Inverness in platform 6 of Aberdeen station on Monday 18 June 1979. With set 301 on the cab the closest power car will be 51789. Looking closely at the centre car, the windows show it's a Met-Camm, and with a red buffet stripe this should be 59574. The other power car is a Class 122, Inverness only has one blue/grey 122 at the time, 55011. The set at the far end seems to still be in plain blue. David Russon.