Vehicle 59770
Class 124
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30605
Diagram: 573
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 | |
| 20/05/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
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 | |||
| 50544 | 51969 | 59770 | 51983 | 51954 | Noted 27/08/1974 - at York1 | ||||
| 51956 | 51978 | 59770 | 59778 | 51973 | 51963 | Noted 05/01/75 - on Botanic Gardens depot2 | |||
| 51952 | 51983 | 59770 | 59775 | 51984 | 51960 | Noted 10/09/75 - at Brough3 | |||
| 51951 | 51984 | 59775 | 59770 | 51972 | 51956 | Noted 15/09/75 - at Brough3 | |||
| 51953 | 51974 | 59770 | 51954 | Noted 03/04/1976 - at Leeds1 | |||||
| 51967 | 51975 | 59770 | 51981 | 51955 | Noted 19/03/19774 | ||||
| 51953 | 51983 | 59770 | 51987 | 51955 | Noted 11/06/19774 | ||||
| 51951 | 51978 | 59770 | 51966 | Noted 01/04/78 - on 12:10 Liverpool - York5 | |||||
| 51966 | 51975 | 59770 | 51972 | 51957 | Noted 10/06/19784 | ||||
| 51957 | 51972 | 59770 | 51975 | 51966 | Noted 18/06/19784 | ||||
| 52093 | 59770 | 59819 | 52094 | Noted 19/07/19804 | |||||
| 52091 | 59824 | 59770 | 52098 | Noted 27/10/19804 | |||||
| 52092 | 59824 | 59770 | 51964 | Noted 01/11/19804 | |||||
| 51961 | 59770 | 59825 | 52090 | Noted circa 10/19824 | |||||
| 52098 | 59827 | 59770 | 52095 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||
| 51961 | 59818 | 59770 | 52089 | Noted circa 09/19834 |
Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Phil Shatford
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 23rd December 1974
An instamatic shot of a Trans-Pennine DMU seen heading east leaving Stalybridge about to head over (or through) the Pennines with the 1310 Liverpool Lime St to Hull service on 23rd December 1973. From the rear are E51960, E51973, E59778 and E59770. Suthen Softy.
Date: 18th August 1982
Morecambe Promenade, 18th August 1982. The train of 51964, 59834, 59770 and 51960 had just worked in from Lancaster. Robert Frise.