BIRMINGHAM RAILCAR WORKGROUP

A fairly dirty E50580 in platform 4 at Doncaster alongside a much cleaner Class 47(Adrian Griffith)

A distant view of E50580 at Copmanthorpe. The original photographer noted the date as 10/8/1988 but this cannot be correct as E50580 was incinerated at Kings' scrapyard in June 1983. One possible suggestion is that the date of the photo is perhaps 10/8/1978? (Johannes Smit)

E50582 stabled in the centre roads at Sheffield (John Law)

E50582/E59221/E50585 departs Sheffield (Jim Hardwick)

Set 80, led by E50582, arrives into Brandon with a 7-car formation (Don Gilham)

E50583/E59221/E50579 waiting to depart from platform 8 at Sheffield (Pete Wilcox)

E50583 (set 80) calls at Lenwade during a railtour (M Best)

A smart looking set, E50583/E59225/E50579, departing Brandon (Gordon Edgar)

E50584 stabled at Neville Hill (Keith Long)

E50584 arriving into Scarborough under the classic signal gantry. Whilst the gantry lives on at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, E50584 does not! (BRCW Collection)

This unidtified vehicle in the early 1980's passing Clapham is thought to be E50584. It is possible that it is E50564 (Graeme Phillips)

E50585/E50298 at Middlesbrough (John Carter)

E50586 crossing Ouseburn Viaduct with a Newcastle-West Monkseaton via Wallsend service. It is assumed that it was not doing the full circuit due to partial closure for pre-Metro works (Peter Robinson)

E50586 in original 4-car configuration at Hull Paragon (Paul S A Redmond)

M50588/M59140/M50436 leave Manchester Victoria with a typical service to Blackpool (Hugh Llewelyn)

E50589 working the RCTS' Hull Docks Rail Tour. Reportedly, E50577 was the powercar at the other end of the 4-car set used (Chris Bush)

E50589/E59216/E59203/E50542 at Doncaster, working the 17:04 to Sheffield & Manchester Piccadilly (Alan Wass)

E50589 passes a Ford Escort at Kirkham North Junction, working a Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service (Martyn Hilbert)

The North shed at Longsight TMD with (left to right) M50353 (M56108), M50456 (M50508), M56267 (M50629), M50589 (M59218 and M50561), M51908 (M56499), M56487 (M51904), and M51930 (M52045)(David Ingram)

E50590/E59218/E50562 (set 88) stands at Peterborough (Jim Hardwick)

E50590/E59221/E50583 (set 86) at March (Gerrard Fletcher)

BX494 at Retford Low Level on a Saturday morning seaside special. The formation is thought to be M53590/M59227/M53562 (Nick Green)

Set BX494 at Buxton (Martin Brown)

BX494 at Poulton-le-Fylde with the 11:25 Blackpool North-Manchester Victoria (Kevin Smith)

M53590 (BX494) on the blocks at Buxton (Kevin Law)

E50591 near York with the 18.23 Doncaster-York, seen at 19.08 (Ernie Brack)

E50591 at Leeds with a Doncaster service (Hugh Llewelyn)

E50591/E59233/E59215/E50564 at Thornaby with the 1721 Darlington-Saltburn (John Carter)

E50591 after withdrawal (Bryan Dawes)

A lovely early image of E50592 at Neville Hill, departing from the sidings with an ECS for Leeds (Keith Long)

M53593 departs Manchester Piccadilly bound for Buxton (Chris Lemon)

E50594/E56186 at Silvertown with the 10:58 Camden Road-North Woolwich (P G Bennett)

Thought to be E50594 at Camden Road. Likely to have been taken between April 1979 & October 1979 when E50594 was allocated to SF (Peter Boor)

E50594 leads two Norwich sets into Lowestoft (Roger Sutcliffe)

50594/56136 & 51259/56132 stand at Norwich, before working the 10.00 to Sheringham (Martin Tasker)

E50594/E56124 at Ipswich (PWS Collection)

53594/54186 at Chester (Chris Lemon)

E50595 at Felixstowe (M Liston)

Thought to be E50595 paired with a Gloucester 100 trailer at Sheringham. (British Railway Photoghraphs)

This thought to be 50595/56189, at Chester in the early 1980's. The set is waiting to depart with a service to Manchester Oxford Road (Huw Rowlands)

Set 75 at Westerfield with a Lowestoft working. The unidentified vehicle is possibly E50596 (Geoffrey Skelsey)

E50596 at Norwich two months after withdrawal. It was in store (having lost a few components in the process) and would move on to Cambridge for further storage. It would be another 14 months before the vehicle was actually scrapped (Paul James)

A lovely view of E50597/E56186 at Lincoln Central having worked 12:10 Sheffield-Lincoln Central (Jeremy Chapter)

E50597/E56187 (set 79) at Ely North Junction (M Best)

Set 79, led by E50597, at Haughley Junction working the 1050 Cambridge - Ipswich (Julian Ogle)

An official photo of the guards van interior, thought to be of E50597 (BRCW)

An official photo of the guards van interior, thought to be of E50597 (BRCW)

E50598 at the now closed Middleton-in-Teesdale

A very dirty looking E50598/E56074 at Bingley (Roger Budd)

E50598 receiving heavy attention inside Doncaster Works (Chris Lings)

M53598 at Chester (John Atkinson)

M53598 lines up alongside the competition at Manchester Piccadilly (Neil Harvey)

M53598 at New Mills Newtown on a Buxton service (Chris Lemon)