Vehicle 59577
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 | |
| 16/10/78 | Transferred to | ED (Eastfield) | |
| 2w/e 11/11/78 | Transferred to | DE (Dundee) | |
| 05/06/81 | Stored S. | DE (Dundee) | |
| 22/08/81 | Stored S. | MH (Millerhill) | |
| 30/09/81 | Withdrawn |
Notes
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:
| 51438 | 59530 | 59577 | 51508 | Transfer to South Gosforth - 3w/e 04/06/60 | |||||
| N423 | 50141 | 59082 | 59577 | 50189 | Noted 07/01/75 - in Newcastle Central, set number only on 50141 + 590811 | ||||
| N403 | 50141 | 59577 | 59081 | 50189 | Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, set number only on 501891 | ||||
| 50141 | 59577 | 59081 | 50189 | Noted 03/04/76 - on Darlington depot1 | |||||
| 51224 | 59577 | 50146 | Transfer to DE - 2w/e 11/11/78 | ||||||
| 101303 | 50292 | 59577 | 50184 | Noted circa 03/19812 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn
Images:
March 1979
Met-Camm buffet car SC59577 at Haymarket depot in March 1979. Alan Rintoul.
28th August 1979
Met-Camm ex-buffet SC59577 departing from Edinburgh Waverley in a set which also has bubble 55000. 28th August 1979. Basil Hancock.
1st September 1979
Built as a buffet car - Met Camm centre car SC59577 is seen at Dundee on 1 September 1979 between a Class 101 DMBS and what is thought to be Class 122 SC55000. Brian Daniels.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 31st August 1975
A Darlington - Shildon "Cavalcade 150" Special at Heighington on 31 August 1975. Leading is a Class 108 four-car formed 50633 + 59245 + 59388 + 50644, followed by a four-car Class 101 with 50141 + 59577 visible, and a three-car Class 101 on the rear. Hugh Llewelyn.
Date: 31st August 1975
One of the DMU shuttles that ran from Darlington to Shildon for the Rail 150 Cavalcade on 31 August 1975. Helpfully, the November 1975 Railway Observer listed the formations of these shuttles and this one can be identified as, left to right, 59388 + 50644, 50141 + 59577 + 59081 + 50189 and 51439 + 59538 + 50143. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 14th August 1981
Class 122 bubbles 55007 and 55011 with Met-Camm buffet 59577 in-between pass along the loop at Dundee ready to form the 15:25 to Arbroath on 14 August 1981. Stuart Mackay Collection.