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Vehicle 51039

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

13/06/59	New to	67C (Ayr)
06/05/73	Depot code change	AY
17/05/82	Stored S.	AY (Ayr)
08/06/82	Stored U.	AY (Ayr)
11/08/82	Withdrawn from	AY (Ayr)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51039	59392	51016	Noted 27/02/60
	51039	59392	51021	Noted 18/03/60 - on Stranraer service
	51039	59410	51026	Noted 16/04/60
	51039	59410	51018	Noted 30/04/60
	51039	59391	51010	Noted 09/07/60
	51039	59393	51026	Noted 02/12/60
	51039	59392	51026	Noted 13/02/61
	51039	59412	51026	Noted 28/02/61
	51039	59412	51009	Noted 20/04/61
	51039	59407	51019	Noted 29/06/61
	51039	59395	51024	Noted 05/07/61
160	51039	59398	51022	Listed at 67C - Aug-70
	51039	59410	51010	Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings¹
	51039	59399	51020	Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings¹
	51039	59410	51022	Noted 06/04/72 - in Glasgow Central¹
109	51039	59402	51017	Noted 25/08/75 - in Glasgow Central²
409	51039	59406	51029	Listed at AY - 01/02/81
126409	51039	59400	51020	Listed at AY - 01/04/82

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown

Images:

June 1981

Set number: 126409

Class 126 DMU set 126 409 in Glasgow Central station in June 1981 with DMBSL Sc51039 closest. Robert Forsythe.

30th August 1981

The 1981 BLS Scottish Tour was the Ayrshire Wanderer which ran in two parts. The Sunday tour (on 30 August) started and finished at Ayr and here we are at Glenwhilly (51787 visible on the right) crossing the service train from Stranraer formed of a Class 126 DMU, 51039 closest. Alistair Ness.