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Vehicle 51020


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

22/08/59 New to 67C (Ayr)
06/05/73Depot code changeAY
17/04/82 Stored U. AY (Ayr)
11/08/82 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)

Notes

10/04/82 - 51020 suffered accident damage at Stranraer on 10/4/82 and afterwards put in store

51020 was involved in the following incident:


20/08/76 - Hillington East

Derailment involving Class 126

Info from Railway Observer p346 October 1976

The trailing bogie of Sc51020 was derailed as it passed Hillington East as the leading vehicle on the 18:35 Glasgow Central - Ayr. A defective axle caused a wheel to collapse, the vehicle had emerged from Glasgow Works just six days earlier.


Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51047 59395 51020 Noted 24/02/60
51047 59395 51020 Noted 14/04/60
51032 59392 51020 Noted 14/05/60
51050 59394 51020 Noted 09/07/60
51044 59407 51020 Noted 10/12/60
51030 59407 51020 Noted 15/12/60
51043 59407 51020 Noted 10/03/61
51043 59391 51020 Noted 29/03/61
51043 59397 51020 Noted 17/05/61
51038 59399 51020 Noted 01/07/61
155 51034 59411 51020 Listed at 67C - Aug-70
51038 59412 51020 Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings1
51039 59399 51020 Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings1
51038 59410 51020 Noted 27/07/1972 - at Ayr2
51031 59394 51020 Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central3
51031 59405 51020 Noted 25/07/1973 - at Ayr3
118 51048 59400 51020 Noted 25/08/75 - in Glasgow Central4
51042 59397 51020 Noted 05/09/76 - in Glasgow Central4
51035 59411 51020 Noted 26/07/79 - on 07:27 Stranraer Harbour - Glasgow5
51042 79470 51020 Noted 13th December 1979
408 51038 59400 51020 Listed at AY - 01/02/81
51036 59397 51020 Noted 27th October 1981
126409 51039 59400 51020 Listed at AY - 01/04/82

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

Images:

Class 126 DMU at Newton-on-Ayr

26th February 1977

A 6-car Class 126 formation (SC51020 + SC59402 + SC51032 / SC51049 + SC59411 + SC51027) heads north out of Newton-on-Ayr station on 26-02-77. Vincent Haworth.

Class 126 DMU at Glasgow Central

Unknown date

DMSL SC1020 on the rear of a Class 126 formation departing from Glasgow Central, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

Class 126 DMU at Johnstone

March 1982

SC51020 on the rear of a Class 126 set departing from Johnstone in March 1982. Note the tail lamp, carried throughout the career of the Class. Ian MacDonald.

Class 126 DMU at Ayr depot

circa June 1982

Swindon Intercity - Class 126 DMS vehicle Sc51020 at Ayr shed - maybe June 1982. The vehicle has suffered minor accident damage at Stranraer on 10/04/82, evident in the closest buffer. Andrew McConnell.