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Vehicle 51047


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

12/09/59 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p/e 28/11/81 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)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

20/06/61 - Involved in a head on collision with oil tankers at Smith Street, Ayr.

51047 was involved in the following incident:


20/06/61 - Ayr

Collision involving Class 126 / wagons

At Ayr Kyle Street Sidings Swindon Inter-City DMU was routed into the wrong siding which contained four tank wagons. DMBS 51047 hit them with enough force to make one of the tank wagons ride up onto the buffers.


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
51047 59395 51029 Noted 14/05/60
51047 59403 51023 Noted 09/07/60
51047 59405 51022 Noted 02/12/60
51047 59398 51028 Noted 28/12/60
51047 59398 51016 Noted 18/05/61
168 51047 59408 51026 Listed at 67C - Aug-70
51047 59408 51008 Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings1
51040 59409 51047 Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings1
51047 59397 51023 Noted 06/04/72 - on Ayr depot1
51047 59411 51027 Noted 25/07/1973 - at Ayr2
51033 59412 51047 Noted 20/03/76 - (2 DMBSs) in Glasgow Central with 51042/59392/510131
417 51047 59405 51009 Listed at AY - 01/02/81
126417 51047 59405 51009 Noted 9th June 1981

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear

Images:

Class 126 DMU at Thornhill

March 1982

Set number: 126417

Sc51047 COND at Thornhill, March 1982. Sc51047 in a rake of withdrawn Swindon DMU vehicles at Thornhill sidings in transit to their final destination, the boarded up windows indicating that the vehicle is contaminated with blue asbestos. When researching the scrapping date for this vehicle I discovered that Sc51047 was involved in an accident at Kyle Street Sidings (adjacent to Ayr station) 20/6/61. The set had been routed into a siding containing four tank wagons instead of into an adjacent empty siding. The cab front was quite badly stoved in. The vehicle was repaired and remained in service until 11/81. Andrew McConnell.