Class 101 DMU @ Eaglescliffe, Teesside, 11/03/1989 [slide 8904]

            Saturday 11/03/1989 at Eaglescliffe, Tees Valley, and Illustrated are Class 101 cars 51467 51516, then allocated to Heaton (HT) depot, Newcastle.
Although I wasn’t at Eaglescliffe on 11/03/1989, let alone the photographer, I visited Newcastle station that Saturday afternoon, and noted this pairing of 51467+51516 working 1330 Newcastle-Middlesbrough, 1458 Middlesbrough-Newcastle and 1630 Newcastle-Carlisle, none of which should include Eaglescliffe.
However, for a time in March 1989, due to major engineering work between Stockton and Thornaby, Newcastle-Middlesbrough services were being diverted to and terminated at Eaglescliffe (with passengers for Middlesbrough having to catch a Darlintgton-Saltburn service, of which there were two per hour).
In this shot, the destination blind reads Middlesbrough, yet the train is in the westbound platform for Darlington, and with the rear cab door open and the apparent direction of the sunlight, I am almost certain this will be the 1330 from Newcastle, which would have arrived and terminated at Eaglescliffe at around 1440.  
The return working from Middlesbrough should have departed there at 1458, but departures from Eaglescliffe were six minutes later reflecting the reduced distance to Stockton, so it would have formed the 1504 Eaglescliffe-Newcastle, reaching its destination some ten minutes before its next duty as 1630 Newcastle-Carlisle.

The final couple of years for both cars was remarkably similar.  Both were transferred from Scotland to Heaton (HT) depot, Newcastle on 20/04/1988, 51467 coming from Haymarket (HA) depot, Edinburgh (still exhibiting its Scottish Region unit number 101339 in this shot), and 51516 coming from Eastfield (ED) depot, Glasgow.  Whilst based at Heaton, they were frequently reformed with other Class 101 cars, as was the norm.  They were both withdrawn 21/09/1989, along with all the rest of Heaton's surviving Class 101s.  They resided at Heaton until 21/09/1990 when they moved to Peterborough, arriving at Mayer Newman scrappers on 24/09/1990. 51516 was torched on 02/10/1990, 51467 on 04/10/1990.

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