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Vehicle 51040

Class 126

BR Diagram 608

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)
06/05/73Depot code changeAY
17/05/82 Stored S. AY (Ayr)
Jul-82 Stored U.
11/08/82 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51040 59393 51019 Noted 27/02/60
51040 59393 51019 Noted 04/04/60
51040 59412 51008 Noted 23/05/60
51040 59396 51024 Noted 09/07/60
51040 59409 51012 Noted 06/12/60
51040 59409 51018 Noted 29/12/60
51040 59411 51014 Noted 13/01/61
51040 59411 51019 Noted 06/02/61
51040 59411 51010 Noted 16/02/61
51040 59403 51010 Noted 09/03/61
51040 59411 51024 Noted 11/03/61
51040 59403 51010 Noted 13/03/61
51040 59403 51013 Noted 19/05/61
51040 59406 51014 Noted 30/06/61
51040 59412 51025 Noted 10/07/61
161 51040 59410 51017 Noted circa Oct-60
161 51040 59410 51017 Noted circa 11/1969 - Listed at Ayr1
161 51040 59405 51011 Listed at 67C - Aug-70
51040 59399 51012 Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings2
51040 59409 51047 Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings2
51028 59399 51040 Noted 02/08/1972 - at Ayr3
51040 59406 51013 Noted 26/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central4
51040 59396 51029 Noted 25/07/76 - at Irvine2
51040 59408 51030 Noted 08/09/79 - on Glasgow - Ayr service5
51022 59396 51040 Noted 06/04/1980 - between Glasgow Central and Ayr 5
51021 59397 51040 Noted 08/09/1980 - at Stranraer Harbour 5
410 51040 59402 51013 Listed at AY - 01/02/81
126410 51040 59408 51008 Listed at AY - 01/04/82

Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Jeremy Goodyear
5: Martin Lumley

Images:

Class 126 DMU at Ayr

25th January 1978

Set number: 410

Class 126 Swindon Inter-City DMU set 410 clatters into Ayr, working in from Glasgow on 25 January 1978. Kevin Lane.

Class 126 DMU at Ayr depot

1982

Set number: 126410

SC51040 Ayr depot, taken on a NREA tour of Scotland in 1982. fgrsimon.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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