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Vehicle 51021


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

29/08/59 New to 67C (Ayr)
06/05/73Depot code changeAY
05/10/81 Stored U. AY (Ayr)
p/e 28/11/81 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)

Notes

28th May 1981 - Seen with rust holes at windows

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51038 59405 51021 Noted 27/02/60
51028 59401 51023 51021 Noted 11/03/60
51028 59401 51021 Noted 13/03/60 - on Stranraer service
51039 59392 51021 Noted 18/03/60 - on Stranraer service
79083 51021 Noted 11/04/60
51033 59409 51021 Noted 09/07/60
51034 59392 51021 Noted 05/12/60
51034 59394 51021 Noted 19/01/61
51035 59394 51021 Noted 27/04/61
51035 59409 51021 Noted 01/07/61
51038 59403 51021 Noted 04/07/61
166 51045 79470 51021 Noted circa Sep-69
169 51048 59393 51021 Listed at 67C - Aug-70
51049 59398 51021 Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings1
51032 59392 51021 Noted 02/08/1972 - at Ayr2
51021 59410 79088 Noted 26/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central3
51041 59400 51021 Noted 05/09/764
412 51042 59395 51021 Listed at AY - 01/02/81
126407 51037 59399 51021 Noted 4th August 1981

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

Images:

Class 126 DMU at Stranraer Harbour

circa 1975

Class 126 DMU Sc51021 seen at Stranraer Harbour. A classic Scottish DMU type - my train arrived at Stranraer Harbour station where we were to board the Sealink ferry 'Ailsa Princess' for a crossing to Larne in Northern Ireland. Taken circa 1975 with my basic Kodak Instamatic using 126 cartridge film. Chris McKee.

Class 126 DMU at Ayr

Unknown date

A Class 126 DMU with DMSL SC51022 closest forming a Glasgow Central service in Ayr station, date unknown. Paul Redmond.