Vehicle 51053
Class 119
Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30421
Diagram: 540
Allocations
| Oct-58 | New to | 82B (Bristol Marsh Junction) | |
| circa Jun-64 | Transferred to | 82A (Bristol Bath Road) | |
| by mid Oct-65 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| w/e 04/05/68 | Transferred to | 60A (Inverness) | |
| Dec-68 | Withdrawn from | 60A (Inverness) |
Notes
12/10/58 - Two DMBCs 51052 + 51053 delivered to Swindon from GRC&W
17/08/70 - noted at Inverness
Disposal
Scrapped by TJ Thomson, Stockton
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| RDG501 | 51053 | 51081 | Noted circa Mar-67 - in blue livery | ||||||
| 51053 | 51081 | Noted circa Mar-68 - in plain blue with small yellow panel |
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: mid-1960s
A two-car GRC&W Cross-Country DMU at Newbury, heading for Reading. Reading had two of these sets from 1964 (51053 + 51081 and 51061 + 51089). Both were blue by March 1967 which dates this to mid-1960s. Graham Clark.
Date: circa 1967
Set number: 501
A two-car GRC&W Cross-Country set at Bedwyn circa 1967. At the time Reading had two two-car sets allocated, 500 and 501, formed from 51053/61 and 51081/89, so this could be 51089 + 51061 if the higher set number contained the higher numbered vehicles. The two sets were transferred to the unlikely location of Inverness in May 1968. Graham Clark.