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Vehicle 51972


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

09/08/60 New to 55H (Neville Hill)
4w/e 25/03/67 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73Depot code changeBG
31/08/80 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) - fire damage

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:


51953 51972 59766 59775 51973 51954 As delivered to 55H - 9th August 1960
51952 51968 59773 51972 51957 Noted 31/12/69 - in Leeds City1
51956 51972 59767 59775 51960 Noted 30/07/73 - on 1610 Liverpool-Hull
51951 51984 59775 59770 51972 51956 Noted 15/09/75 - at Brough2
51952 51972 59771 51969 51965 Noted 29/11/1975 - at York 3
51966 51975 59770 51972 51957 Noted 10/06/19784
51957 51972 59770 51975 51966 Noted 18/06/19784
52092 51972 52103 Noted 30/05/19794

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 18th April 1962

E51956, 51973, 59776, 59767, 51972 and 51955 approaching Neville Hill East with a Hull to Liverpool Lime Street train 18th April 1962. Keith Long.