Vehicle 51020
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
| 22/08/59 | New to | 67C (Ayr) | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | AY | |
| 17/04/82 | Stored U. | AY (Ayr) | |
| 11/08/82 | Withdrawn from | AY (Ayr) |
Notes
10/04/82 - 51020 suffered accident damage at Stranraer on 10/4/82 and afterwards put in store
51020 was involved in the following incident:
20/08/76 - Hillington East
Derailment involving Class 126
Info from Railway Observer p346 October 1976
The trailing bogie of Sc51020 was derailed as it passed Hillington East as the leading vehicle on the 18:35 Glasgow Central - Ayr. A defective axle caused a wheel to collapse, the vehicle had emerged from Glasgow Works just six days earlier.
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51047 | 59395 | 51020 | Noted 24/02/60 | ||||||
| 51047 | 59395 | 51020 | Noted 14/04/60 | ||||||
| 51032 | 59392 | 51020 | Noted 14/05/60 | ||||||
| 51050 | 59394 | 51020 | Noted 09/07/60 | ||||||
| 51044 | 59407 | 51020 | Noted 10/12/60 | ||||||
| 51030 | 59407 | 51020 | Noted 15/12/60 | ||||||
| 51043 | 59407 | 51020 | Noted 10/03/61 | ||||||
| 51043 | 59391 | 51020 | Noted 29/03/61 | ||||||
| 51043 | 59397 | 51020 | Noted 17/05/61 | ||||||
| 51038 | 59399 | 51020 | Noted 01/07/61 | ||||||
| 155 | 51034 | 59411 | 51020 | Listed at 67C - Aug-70 | |||||
| 51038 | 59412 | 51020 | Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings1 | ||||||
| 51039 | 59399 | 51020 | Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings1 | ||||||
| 51038 | 59410 | 51020 | Noted 27/07/1972 - at Ayr2 | ||||||
| 51031 | 59394 | 51020 | Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central3 | ||||||
| 51031 | 59405 | 51020 | Noted 25/07/1973 - at Ayr3 | ||||||
| 118 | 51048 | 59400 | 51020 | Noted 25/08/75 - in Glasgow Central4 | |||||
| 51042 | 59397 | 51020 | Noted 05/09/76 - in Glasgow Central4 | ||||||
| 51035 | 59411 | 51020 | Noted 26/07/79 - on 07:27 Stranraer Harbour - Glasgow5 | ||||||
| 51042 | 79470 | 51020 | Noted 13th December 1979 | ||||||
| 408 | 51038 | 59400 | 51020 | Listed at AY - 01/02/81 | |||||
| 51036 | 59397 | 51020 | Noted 27th October 1981 | ||||||
| 126409 | 51039 | 59400 | 51020 | Listed at AY - 01/04/82 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Phil Shatford
Images:
26th February 1977
A 6-car Class 126 formation (SC51020 + SC59402 + SC51032 / SC51049 + SC59411 + SC51027) heads north out of Newton-on-Ayr station on 26-02-77. Vincent Haworth.
Unknown date
DMSL SC1020 on the rear of a Class 126 formation departing from Glasgow Central, date unknown. Paul Redmond.
March 1982
SC51020 on the rear of a Class 126 set departing from Johnstone in March 1982. Note the tail lamp, carried throughout the career of the Class. Ian MacDonald.
circa June 1982
Swindon Intercity - Class 126 DMS vehicle Sc51020 at Ayr shed - maybe June 1982. The vehicle has suffered minor accident damage at Stranraer on 10/04/82, evident in the closest buffer. Andrew McConnell.