BIRMINGHAM RAILCAR WORKGROUP

50580

Delivered November 1958 to Hull, Springhead. Withdrawn June 1981 from Neville Hill.

1975

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

Undated

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)

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50581

Delivered November 1958 to Hull, Springhead. Withdrawn August 1982 from Newton Heath.

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50582

Delivered November 1958 to Hull, Botanic Gardens. Withdrawn June 1981 from Neville Hill.

1970

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

27/10/1973

E50582/E59221/E50585 departs Sheffield (Jim Hardwick)

7/3/1977

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

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50583

Delivered December 1958 to Hull, Botanic Gardens. Withdrawn May 1982 from Neville Hill.

22/8/1975

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

16/9/1978

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

24/9/1979

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

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50584

Delivered December 1958 to York. Withdrawn February 1982 from Neville Hill.

28/7/1962

E50584 stabled at Neville Hill (Keith Long)

26/7/1975

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)

Undated

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

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50585

Delivered December 1958 to Hull, Botanic Gardens. Withdrawn February 1981 from Darlington.

9/11/1980

E50585/E50298 at Middlesbrough (John Carter)

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50586

Delivered January 1959 to Neville Hill. Withdrawn May 1982 from Neville Hill.

18/2/1978

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)

Undated

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

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50587

Delivered January 1959 to South Gosforth. Withdrawn June 1982 from Neville Hill.

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50588

Delivered March 1959 to Hull, Botanic Gardens. Withdrawn March 1982 from Stratford.

7/1978

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

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50589

Delivered December 1958 to York. Withdrawn May 1983 from Buxton.

10/10/1964

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)

13/8/1974

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

1/8/1981

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

5/3/1983

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)

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50590

Delivered December 1958 to Hull, Botanic Gardens. Withdrawn July 1984 from Buxton.

17/7/1976

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

28/3/1980

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

1982

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

8/5/1983

Set BX494 at Buxton (Martin Brown)

4/6/1983

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

30/4/1984

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

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50591

Delivered January 1959 to Neville Hill. Withdrawn March 1981 from Darlington.

25/6/1974

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

Undated

E50591 at Leeds with a Doncaster service (Hugh Llewelyn)

18/10/1980

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

Undated

E50591 after withdrawal (Bryan Dawes)

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50592

Delivered January 1959 to South Gosforth. Withdrawn July 1967 from Neville Hill, possibly following collision damage?

5/2/1960

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

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50593

Delivered March 1959 to Hull, Botanic Gardens. Withdrawn October 1984 from Buxton.

27/8/1983

M53593 departs Manchester Piccadilly bound for Buxton (Chris Lemon)

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50594

Delivered May 1958 to York. Withdrawn July 1985 from Newton Heath.

14/5/1979

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

Undated

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)

26/4/1980

E50594 leads two Norwich sets into Lowestoft (Roger Sutcliffe)

25/7/1981

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

1981

E50594/E56124 at Ipswich (PWS Collection)

29/8/1983

53594/54186 at Chester (Chris Lemon)

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50595

Delivered May 1958 to York. Withdrawn February 1984 from Longsight.

10/9/1978

E50595 at Felixstowe (M Liston)

Undated

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

Undated

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)

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50596

Delivered May 1958 to York. Withdrawn July 1981 from Norwich.

9/1979

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

28/9/1981

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)

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50597

Delivered May 1958 to Bradford, Hammerton Street. Withdrawn February 1982 from Norwich.

10/9/1975

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

7/6/1980

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

1/8/1980

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

Interior 5/1958

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

Interior 5/1958

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

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50598

Delivered May 1958 to Bradford, Hammerton Street. Withdrawn December 1986 from Ayr.

Undated

E50598 at the now closed Middleton-in-Teesdale

20/3/1976

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

25/7/1982

E50598 receiving heavy attention inside Doncaster Works (Chris Lings)

14/6/1983

M53598 at Chester (John Atkinson)

25/7/1984

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

27/10/1984

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

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