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Vehicle 51042

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: 30414
Diagram: 608

Allocations

20/06/59	New to	67C (Ayr)
06/05/73	Depot code change	AY
17/05/82	Stored S.	AY (Ayr)
11/08/82	Withdrawn from	AY (Ayr)

Notes

30th March 1982 - Seen carrying unit no. 126 412
30th April 1983 - Seen in Falkland Yard

51042 was involved in the following incident:

14/02/63 - Ayr station

Collision involving Class 126

On the evening of 14/02/63 a 33 wagon laden coal train from Waterside 'ran away' on the downhill stretch of the Dalmellington branch to the main line at Dalrymple Jct. The crew, seeing the signals at danger jumped off, expecting to be derailed at the catch points. However the line had been set for the train and it continued crewless on the main line downhill into Ayr station. At Ayr No2 signal box 26 of the wagons became derailed and ripped up the track, the loco and one wagon continued on its path until it collided tender first with a 3-car Swindon DMU (51042 + 59411 + 51009) underneath a road bridge at Ayr station. Fortunately the DMU was empty, but the driver and guard were both injured. That night cranes were brought in from Polmadie and Hurlford, the clean up proved difficult as the Black Five 45481 and DMBS 51042 were locked together underneath the road bridge. Passengers to and from Girvan were conveyed to Ayr by bus. The line was finally cleared at 6.30pm the following day.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51042	59410	51012	Noted 27/02/60
	51042	59410	51029	Noted 11/03/60
	51042	59408	51015	Noted 08/05/60
	51042	59408	51015	Noted 09/07/60
	51042	59406	51024	Noted 07/12/60
	51042	59397	50936	Noted 08/02/61
	51042	59391	50936	Noted 10/03/61
	51042	59411	51024	Noted 14/03/61
	51042	59411	51025	Noted 17/05/61
	51042	59394	51025	Noted 24/05/61
	51042	59406	51013	Noted 04/07/61
163	51042	59407	50936	Noted circa Sep-69
163	51042	59396	51028	Listed at 67C - Aug-70
	51042	79470	51044	Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings¹
	51042	79470	51015	Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings¹
	51042	59402	51019	Noted 26/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central²
	51042	59402	51025	Noted 05/09/73 - at Ayr³
	51042	59392	51013	Noted 20/03/76 - in Glasgow Central with 51033/59412/51047¹
	51042	59397	51020	Noted 05/09/76 - in Glasgow Central³
	51042	79470	51022	Noted 05/04/78 - on 17:25 Glasgow - Stranraer Harbour⁴
	51042	79470	51020	Noted 13th December 1979
412	51042	59395	51021	Listed at AY - 01/02/81
126412	51042	59398	51025	Listed at AY - 01/04/82 - 51025 was carrying set number 126418

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

Images:

1981

Set number: 412

Class 126 set 412 in platform 11 of Glasgow Central Station, circa 1981. DMBS Sc51042 carries the GG Trans-Clyde logo. Andrew McConnell.

Unknown date

Set number: 126412

A 6-car Class 126 formation arriving into its destination at Glasgow Central circa 1982. The leading vehicle in set 126 412 is SC51042. Ian MacDonald.

Class 126 DMU at Glasgow Central High Level

1982

Set number: 126412

End of Days. Swindon Inter-City 126 412 (probably Sc51042) bringing up the rear of a six car set departing Platform 13 at Glasgow Central for the Ayrshire coast. Swindon 126 413 is leading and the resultant haze of exhaust fumes is drifting towards the camera. Probably Spring 1982. alicia hartman.

6th March 1982

Set number: 126412

Trains passing near Elderslie on 6 March 1982. The approaching train is 3-car Class 126 DMU 126 412 (Sc51042 closest) on the 15.00 from Glasgow Central to Ayr. Tom Burnham.

circa mid-1982

Set number: 126412

DMUs stabled in Kyle Street Sidings (which was next to Ayr station) circa mid-1982. On the left is Met-Camm set 101335 with 59567 and 51804 visible, they face a Class 107. On the right is a Class 126 with 51042 closest. John Horne.

21st May 1983

Set number: 126412

Stripped of it's engines and with all windows boarded up due to asbestos contamination Class 126 DMBS SC51042 lies dumped in Falkland Yard, Ayr on the 21st May 1983. Withdrawn in August 1982 having spent all it's working life at Ayr MPD there was just one more journey to make...to the firing tunnel at Snailwell Yard, Suffolk where she perished during November 1983. Bob Woolnough.

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