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Vehicle 51970


Class 124

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30604
Diagram: 579

Allocations

24/08/60 New to 55H (Neville Hill)
4w/e 25/03/67 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73Depot code changeBG
p/e 30/11/80 Withdrawn

Notes

25/06/82 - Condemned vehicles 50591, 51970/2/7 and 59244 hauled from Doncaster Hexthorpe Yard (08:00) to Whittlesea (booked as 12:40) as 8X32.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51955 51970 59767 59776 51971 51956 As delivered to 55H - 24th August 1960
51953 51970 59778 59769 51983 51961 Noted 19/04/71 - in Leeds City1
51959 51968 59777 59767 51970 51966 Noted 06/08/1974 - at Manchester Victoria2
51962 51968 59777 59767 51970 51966 Noted 29/08/1974 - at Liverpool Lime Street2
51958 51970 59765 59776 51992 51964 Noted 04/09/74 - in Liverpool Lime Street1
51962 51979 59767 51970 51965 Noted 25/06/77 - on 1M76 1540 Hull-Liverpool
52092 51970 59819 52103 Noted 15/09/19793
52088 51970 59766 51961 Noted 10/11/19793
52096 59820 51970 52090 Noted 06/04/19803
52096 59820 51970 52090 Noted 08/04/19803
52096 59820 51970 52090 Noted 09/04/19803
52103 59773 51970 51958 Noted 11/04/19803
51967 59773 51970 51953 Noted 28/06/19803
52092 59821 51970 51966 Noted 19/07/19803

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Eddie Knorn

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: August 1976

A Trans-Pennine DMU set that included 51962, 59766, 51970, 51957 pauses at Huddersfield on a Hull - Liverpool working in August 1976. John Crooks.