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Vehicle 51014


Class 126

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: White Circle
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30413
Diagram: 551

Allocations

01/08/59 New to 67C (Ayr)
06/05/73Depot code changeAY
02/08/81 Stored U. AY (Ayr)
05/09/81 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)

51014 was involved in the following incident:


16/4/79 - Paisley Gilmour Street, ScR

Collision involving Class 126 / EMU

Info from Bill Read

The 18:58 Ayr to Glasgow Central additional train formed Sc51031/Sc59412/Sc51014 & Sc51044/Sc59398/Sc51017 passed a signal at danger at Paisley Gilmour Street. Guard gave right away while signal at danger and the driver did not check. Train was in head on collision with the 19:40 Glasgow Central to Wemyss Bay as it crossed the junction east of the station. Serious damage, 7 fatalities and many injuries. Both SC51031 and EMU SC75840 were extensively damaged. SC51031 rode up over the roof of the EMU and was cut up on site. The remaining DMU vehicles were all repairable.


Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51032 59412 51014 Noted 27/02/60
51050 59412 51014 Noted 04/04/60
51009 59409 51014 Noted 30/04/60
51046 59409 51014 Noted 05/05/60
51036 59409 51014 Noted 09/07/60
51035 59411 51014 Noted 05/12/60
51040 59411 51014 Noted 13/01/61
51048 59404 51014 Noted 07/04/61
51040 59406 51014 Noted 30/06/61
173 79088 79479 51014 Listed at 67C - Aug-70
51038 59406 51014 Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings1
51036 59408 51014 Noted 06/04/72 - on Ayr depot1
51045 59407 51014 Noted 29/07/1972 - at Ayr2
51036 79479 51014 Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central3
51041 59407 51014 Noted 07/04/1975 - on 06:00 Glasgow Central to Ayr2
51031 59412 51014 Noted 13th March 1979
414 51044 59398 51014 Listed at AY - 01/02/81

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear

Images:

Class 126 DMU at Hawkhill Junction, Ayr

1st August 1974

Sc51014 leads a six-car Class 126 formation north past Hawkhill Junction, about to pass Ayr depot on the left, on 1 August 1974. Phil Bidwell.

Class 126 DMU at Ayr depot

Unknown date

Class 125 DMSL SC51014 on Ayr depot. The engine on the closest side has been removed. Paul Redmond.