BIRMINGHAM RAILCAR WORKGROUP

Set 84, 50560/59228/50559, calls at Thetford, on its way to Peterborough if the destination blind is to be believed (Alan Chilestone)

E50560/E59221/E50561 (Set 86) calls at Brandon whilst working the 10:10 Ely-Norwich (Gordon Edgar)

E50560 at the end of the branch at Southminster (Chris Lings)

The 15:24 from Peterborough to Cambridge is being worked by Set 85, the rear two coaches of which were 50561 & 59226, seen at Peterborough just before departure (Martin Tasker)

Set 84 (E50562) at Thetford (Alan Chilestone)

E50563 leads a 3-car set bound for Sheffield. Location is possibly Chinley: Eastern Region sets at this time worked New Mills-Sheffield services (Old Fentonian)

E50563 separated from its set at Lancaster Up Yard, following a minor derailment whilst entering Lancaster with a Leeds to Morecambe service. It was inspected the following day and returned to home depot Leeds Neville Hill (Martyn Hilbert)

E50564 appears to have a black painted route indicator blind box cover whilst on a North Woolwich service (Tom Burnham)

E51551, an unidentified trailer brake and E50564 at Stratford (Low Level) with a North Woolwich service (Tom Burnham)

E50564/E59212/50546 at North Woolwich. It is working a North Woolwich-Tottenham Hale servic, photo taken at 17:11 (P G Bennett)

E50564 at Tottenham Hale with a Stratford-North Woolwich working (Hugh Llewelyn)

Less than a year before withdrawal, E50564/E59206/E59214/E50556 at Manors.1329 Newcastle (John Carter)

E50565/E59210/E50568 in the sidings at Ipswich beside the station. The rear two cars have recently received works attention and really stand out against '565 (Jim Hardwick)

53565 at Glasgow Queen Street as 104367 (John Horne)

A fresh E50566 at Doncaster, likely to have just received an overhaul at the works (John Turner)

A fresh E50566 at Doncaster, likely to have just received an overhaul at the works (John Turner)

E50566, still in original 4-car formation, has arrived at Morcambe with a service from Leeds (Alan Rintoul)

E50566 tails an 8-car Leeds-Hull service at Selby (Martyn Hilbert)

E50567 at Selby alongside an interesting track machine (M Best)

E50567/E50369 at Cromer (Beach) with the East Anglian railtour (runtheredline)

E50567 at Ipswich with the East Anglian railtour (runtheredline)

E50567/E59223/E59199/E50550 at Leeds with a Liverpool Lime St-Manchester Victoria-Huddersfield-Hull service (Hugh Llewelyn)

An unusual corridor end view of E50567, showing to good effect the different silencers that were fitted usually (but not exclusively) to Eastern Region 104s (Paul S A Redmond)

A little fuzzy, but a very rare photo showing E50568, E59214, E59193 & E50547 at Bridlington with a Hull-Scarborough working. This was taken the same month the set was delivered to Hull (Ray Walkington)

This unidentified vehicle may be NE50568 (the number is very grainy in the photo). The very distinctive non standard front end lining may one day confirm which vehicle this is (R W Carroll)

E50568 at Thornaby after withdrawal from service. Closer inspection shows the vehicle has lost bodyside window glass, its heater and various underframe equipment box lids (John Carter)

NE50569 terminated at York with a working from Scarborough (Bill Ford)

50570 arrives into Stockton leading a Class 101 formation (Jerry Glover)

Journey's end for 50570 at Whitby (Jerry Glover)

Undated, but likely to be 1958 as E50571 is clearly not long out of the factory, seen at an unknown location (Hull area?) (Mike Boakes Collection)

E50571 at Botanic Gardens (Hull) with much surrounding evidence of the trolleybus system (Les Storry)

E50571/E59220/E50555 at Romford on the Upminster shuttle (Hugh Llewelyn)

E50572 at Thetford tailling set 85 (Alan Chilestone)

E50572/M59226/M50551 at Buxton with the1302 ex Manchester Piccadilly (Graham Walker)

E50574/E59244/E59231/E50576 at Tynemouth, working the 10:42 Tynemouth-Newcastle. This was the final day before the Metro conversion (Grahame Phillips)

E50574/E59244/E59231/E50576 at Percy Main, working 11:20 from Newcastle. This was the final day before the Metro conversion (Grahame Phillips)

E50574/E59100/E50295 at Nunthorpe, with the 11:58 Middlesbrough-Nunthorpe (John Carter)

A crisp view of E50576/E59220/E50549 at Custom House on a North Woolwich-Stratford service. Photo taken at 18:34 (P G Bennett)

E50576 at March Whitemoor Junction, being moved post withdrawal (WD 6/6/82) It would eventually end up at Snailwell for scrapping (Neil Cannon)

E50577/?/?/E50589 at Alexander Dock, Hull, during the RCTS' Hull Docks railtour (John Turner)

E50577 at Edinburgh Waverley working a Glasgow Queen St-Whitley Bay excursion (Graeme Phillips)

50577/59210/50565 stands at Matlock having arrived with the 14.17 from Derby (Martin Tasker)

M53577/M59210/M53565 at Longsight inside the North shed with M53427/M59183/M53459 alongside (David Ingram)

53577/59210/53565, possibly in Scotland (Neil Harrison)

An unidentified vehicle (thought to be E50578) forms Norwich set 85 at Sheringham, with a service to Norwich (Alan Rintoul)

A real treat of a view: a fresh looking E50578 passing Orgreave sidings with a Sheffield-Worksop service (Les Nixon)

E50578 (set 80) at March with a Peterborough-Cambridge working (Gerrard Fletcher)

E50579 in its 4-car configuration, at an unknown location (David Woodward)

A great summer evening image of E50579 at Ruswarp with the 19:28 Whitby-Darlington (W Sharman)