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Vehicle 51018


Class 126

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: White Circle
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30413
Diagram: 551

Allocations

15/08/59 New to 67C (Ayr)
06/05/73Depot code changeAY
p/e 28/11/81 Stored U. AY (Ayr)
01/03/82 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)

Notes

30th March 1982 - Seen carrying unit no. 126 418 while in 126 412 (51042 + 593xx)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51034 59398 51018 Noted 01/03/60
51031 59401 51018 Noted Mar-60 - on Stranraer service
51038 59405 51018 Noted 10/03/60
51039 59410 51018 Noted 30/04/60
51041 59399 51018 Noted 09/07/60
51031 59410 51018 Noted 08/12/60
51040 59409 51018 Noted 29/12/60
51037 59409 51018 Noted 16/01/61
51041 59400 51018 Noted 14/03/61
51048 59400 51018 Noted 17/03/61
51041 59400 51018 Noted 24/03/61
51050 59396 51018 Noted 23/06/61
154 51033 59400 51018 Noted circa Oct-60
172 51051 59403 51018 Listed at 67C - Aug-70
51051 59403 51018 Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings1
51041 59396 51018 Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings1
51030 59411 51018 Noted 06/04/72 - on Ayr depot1
51035 59391 51018 Noted 26/07/1972 - at Ayr2
51033 59392 51018 Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central3
108 51038 59400 51018 Noted 05/09/73 - at Ayr4
105 51035 59404 51018 Noted 25/08/75 - in Ayr station4
51032 59408 51018 Noted 25/07/76 - at Paisley1
51038 59392 51018 Noted 15/08/78 - on 07:27 Stranaer Harbour - Glasgow with 51015 + 59411 + 51036 Ayr - Glasgow5
411 51041 59393 51018 Listed at AY - 01/02/81
126419 51049 59402 51018 Noted 1st July 1981

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Phil Shatford

Images:

Class 126 DMU at Carlisle

14th March 1981

Class 08 no. 08759 and Swindon Inter-City Class 126 vehicle no. SC51018 are seen in the north end bay platforms at Carlisle on Saturday 14/03/1981. The Scottish DMU will have worked in with a service from south west Scotland via Ayr / Dumfries. Graeme Phillips Collection.