Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30598
Diagram: 598
01/10/60 | New to | Chaddesden | - stabled pending allocation |
4w/e 31/12/60 | On loan to | 30A (Stratford) | |
2w/e 08/04/61 | Stored | Marylebone | - ex-loan |
4w/e 01/07/61 | Transfer | 14F (Marylebone) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 1D | |
May-73 | Depot code change | ME | |
Oct-88 | Transferred to | BY (Bletchley) | |
21/01/92 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) NMYX | |
27/08/92 | Withdrawn from | OO (Old Oak Common) NMYX |
circa Mar-87 - Gangway(s) fitted
Preserved - more details.
51885 | 59737 | 59757 | 51886 | As delivered to Chaddesden sidings - 1st October 1960 - stabled pending allocation | |||||
51885 | 59737 | 59757 | 51886 | Transfer to 30A - 4w/e 31/12/60 - on loan from LMR | |||||
51885 | 59737 | 59757 | 51886 | Transfer to Marylebone - 2w/e 08/04/61 - ex-loan | |||||
51886 | 59732 | 59764 | 51899 | Noted 19/11/70 - at Marylebone1 | |||||
51880 | 59672 | 59740 | 51886 | Noted 14/02/72 - on Marylebone depot2 | |||||
51886 | 59738 | 59668 | 51894 | Noted 13/01/79 - Noted 13/01/79 - on emergency special from Marylebone to High Wycombe with 51674-59733-59676-51891 to connect with delayed ECS for railtour to Merseyside. Also noted as 51661-59738-59668-51676.3 | |||||
51678 | 59753 | 59649 | 51886 | Noted 27/08/79 - on the Quaintonian shuttle | |||||
51675 | 59670 | 59656 | 51886 | Noted 15/05/81 - at Aylesbury2 | |||||
51861 | 59674 | 59651 | 51886 | Noted circa 08/19814 | |||||
51651 | 59661 | 59745 | 51886 | Noted circa 06/19824 | |||||
51655 | 59734 | 59763 | 51886 | Noted circa 09/19824 | |||||
51886 | 59663 | 59758 | 51894 | Noted circa 10/19834 | |||||
51886 | 59736 | 59669 | 51873 | Noted circa 04/19844 | |||||
51886 | 59728 | 59762 | 51887 | Noted 31/07/85 - on Aylesbury - Marylebone service | |||||
51886 | 59731 | 59669 | 51651 | Noted circa 10/19854 | |||||
51669 | 59658 | 59753 | 51886 | Noted 28/12/1985 - at Marylebone5 | |||||
51664 | 59726 | 59755 | 51886 | Noted 22/12/1986 - at Marylebone5 | |||||
51886 | 59759 | 51896 | Noted circa 09/19874 | ||||||
51886 | 59759 | 51896 | Noted 06/10/19874 | ||||||
51896 | 59652 | 59759 | 51886 | Noted 18/11/19874 | |||||
51896 | 59652 | 59759 | 51886 | Noted 17/12/19874 | |||||
51663 | 59660 | 59752 | 51886 | Noted 17/09/88 - on 09.42 Banbury - Marylebone | |||||
51663 | 59763 | 59737 | 51886 | Noted circa 01/19894 | |||||
51886 | 59733 | 59764 | 51668 | Noted circa 03/19894 | |||||
51886 | 59667 | 59659 | 51896 | Noted 05/05/90 - on services to Marylebone6 | |||||
51879 | 59736 | 59665 | 51886 | Noted 13/06/90 - on services to Marylebone6 | |||||
51886 | 59752 | 59655 | 51666 | Noted circa 07/19904 | |||||
51658 | 59657 | 59667 | 51886 | Noted 24/02/92 | |||||
51659 | 59761 | 51886 | Noted 07/08/92 - on 12:47 Paddington - Twyford |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Phil Shatford
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton
6: Aaron Calder
At Aylesbury on 27/8/79 working The Quaintonian shuttle to Quainton Road are 51886 - 59649 - 59753 - 51678. Robert Frise.
51886 - 59649 - 59753 - 51678 at Quainton Road while working The Quaintonian shuttle, 27/8/79. Robert Frise.
Class 115 DMBS M51866 at the stops in Marylebone with a High Wycombe service on 13 March 1982. Stuart Mackay Collection.
M51886 leads a Class 115 set on a High Wycombe service heading away from Sudbury and Harrow Road Station in May 1985. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A countryside walk from Beaconsfield to Amersham took me over the Aylesbury to London line via a footbridge at Little Missenden on the 31st July 1985. There I photographed Class 115 51886 (leading) + 59728 + 59762 + 51887 on a service for Marylebone. It is pictured approaching from the west. S Gaskell.
Heading away beneath Keepers Lane bridge over the Aylesbury to London line at Little Missenden is Class 115 set 51887 (rear, closest) + 59762 + 59728 + 51886 on a service for Marylebone. Taken during a countryside walk from Beaconsfield to Amersham on the 31st July 1985. S Gaskell.
Until the Class 165 dmus came along in 1990 services out of Marylebone to Aylesbury and Banbury were dominated by the Class 115 dmus allocated to Marylebone. This photo shows a unit (made up of 51663 + 59660 + 59752 + 51886) leaving Banbury, and passing the now-demolished Banbury South signalbox, on the 09.42 to Marylebone on 17 September 1988. Lewis Bevan.
When the 115s were withdrawn from Chiltern a few were used on Thames 117 turns for a short time, such as this image of 51659 with 59761 and 51886 on the 12:47 Paddington - Twyford, seen at Hayes on 7/8/92. Gazza Prescott.