Vehicle 51979
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
| 25/10/60 | New to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 25/03/67 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
| 18/10/81 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Notes
30/04/76 - 50630, 51816, 51979, 56187, 52079 noted on Doncaster Works
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51961 | 51978 | 59770 | 59779 | 51979 | 51962 | As delivered to 55H - 25th October 1960 | |||
| 51953 | 51980 | 59767 | 59777 | 51979 | 51964 | Noted 31/10/1972 - at Manchester Victoria1 | |||
| 51952 | 51976 | 59765 | 51979 | 51955 | Noted 13/04/73 - on 1450 Manchester Victoria - York | ||||
| 51955 | 51979 | 59769 | 51967 | Noted 29/08/74 - on Hull Botanic Gardens depot2 | |||||
| 51954 | 51973 | 59773 | 51979 | 51959 | Noted 10/01/76 - at Brough3 | ||||
| 51962 | 51979 | 59767 | 51970 | 51965 | Noted 25/06/77 - on 1M76 1540 Hull-Liverpool | ||||
| 51965 | 59765 | 51979 | 51955 | Noted 19/07/19804 | |||||
| 52100 | 51979 | 59771 | 51952 | Noted 01/11/19804 | |||||
| 51963 | 59825 | 51979 | 52095 | Noted 02/01/19814 |
Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Eddie Knorn
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