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Vehicle 51045

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

05/09/59	New to	67C (Ayr)
06/05/73	Depot code change	AY
05/06/81	Stored U.	AY (Ayr)
24/07/81	Withdrawn from	AY (Ayr)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51045	59407	51017	Noted 24/02/60
	51045	59396	51024	Noted 08/05/60
	51045	59410	51008	Noted 09/07/60
	51045	59404	51029	Noted 02/12/60
	51045	59393	51013	Noted 02/03/61
	51045	59393	50936	Noted 28/03/61
	51045	59404	51011	Noted 03/07/61
166	51045	79470	51021	Noted circa Sep-69
166	51045	59407	50936	Listed at 67C - Aug-70
	51045	59407	51012	Noted 06/04/72 - on Ayr depot¹
	51045	59407	51014	Noted 29/07/1972 - at Ayr²
	51045	59398	51023	Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central³
	51045	79470	50936	Noted 05/04/1976 - at Glasgow Central ²
	51045	59397	51015	Noted 26th July 1977
415	51045	59392	51008	Listed at AY - 01/02/81

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

Images:

12th July 1962

A six-car Swindon Inter-city formation departs from Stranraer Harbour with the 1.30pm Stranraer Harbour - Glasgow St. Enoch service on July 12, 1962. Many of the passengers will have disembarked from the ferry seen in the background on the left. Michael Mensing.

10th August 1973

Set number: 115

A Class 126 DMU arrives into Girvan station with the 2.00pm ex-Glasgow Central on 10 August 1973. Closest appears to be SC51045 which is displaying set number 115 in the left cab window. Michael Mensing.

September 1980

Set number: 415

Class 126 set 415 enters Kyle Street sidings beside Ayr station in September 1980. Karel 1999.

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