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Vehicle 51031

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: 30414
Diagram: 608

Allocations

08/05/59	New to	67C (Ayr)
06/05/73	Depot code change	AY
p/e 09/06/79	Stored U.	AY (Ayr)
p/e 04/08/79	Withdrawn from	AY (Ayr)

51031 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 Dalton Demolition Ltd, on location at Paisley Gilmour Street

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51031	59401	51018	Noted Mar-60 - on Stranraer service
	51033	59402	51031	Noted 10/03/60
	51031	59411	51011	Noted 01/04/60
	51031	59411	51012	Noted 16/04/60
	51031	59411	51009	Noted 09/05/60
	51031	59411	51022	Noted 09/07/60
	51031	59410	51018	Noted 08/12/60
	51031	59410	51023	Noted 27/12/60
	51031	59391	51023	Noted 05/01/61
	51031	59395	51009	Noted 01/02/61
	51031	59402	51015	Noted 14/02/61
	51031	59411	51016	Noted 08/03/61
	51031	59403	51010	Noted 11/03/61
	51031	59397	51008	Noted 05/04/61
	51031	59392	51026	Noted 21/04/61
	51031	59402	51012	Noted 01/07/61
152	51031	59399	51011	Noted circa Sep-69
152	51031	59392	51009	Listed at 67C - Aug-70
	51031	59407	51012	Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings¹
	51031	59392	51013	Noted 06/04/72 - on Ayr depot¹
	51031	59394	51020	Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central²
	51031	59405	51020	Noted 25/07/1973 - at Ayr²
	51031	59398	51013	Noted 31/12/75 - in Glasgow Central¹
	51031	59412	51023	Noted 04/04/1977 - 07:27 Stranrear to Glasgow, unit failed at Ayr³
	51031	59412	51014	Noted 13th March 1979

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

Images:

30th May 1959

Ayrshire Swindon Inter-City vehicles stored at Lugton on the 30th May 1959 awaiting entry to service later in the year. WAC Smith.

2nd May 1978

Set number: 401

Class 126 DMBSL SC51031 from Set 401 is stabled on Ayr MPD on the 2nd May 1978. Other than the rail blue livery the vehicle is as it was delivered to BR in May 1959. Unfortunately this would not last long as less than a year later SC51031 was involved in a tragic accident upon leaving Paisley Gilmour Street Station on the 16th April 1979 when it was involved in a head on collision with a Class 303 unit and SC51031 was cut up on site. Bob Woolnough.

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