Vehicle 51047
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
| 12/09/59 | New to | 67C (Ayr) | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | AY | |
| 05/10/81 | Stored U. | AY (Ayr) | |
| p/e 28/11/81 | Withdrawn from | AY (Ayr) |
Notes
20/06/61 - Involved in a head on collision with oil tankers at Smith Street, Ayr.
51047 was involved in the following incident:
20/06/61 - Ayr
Collision involving Class 126 / wagons
At Ayr Kyle Street Sidings Swindon Inter-City DMU was routed into the wrong siding which contained four tank wagons. DMBS 51047 hit them with enough force to make one of the tank wagons ride up onto the buffers.
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 | ||||||
| 51047 | 59395 | 51029 | Noted 14/05/60 | ||||||
| 51047 | 59403 | 51023 | Noted 09/07/60 | ||||||
| 51047 | 59405 | 51022 | Noted 02/12/60 | ||||||
| 51047 | 59398 | 51028 | Noted 28/12/60 | ||||||
| 51047 | 59398 | 51016 | Noted 18/05/61 | ||||||
| 168 | 51047 | 59408 | 51026 | Listed at 67C - Aug-70 | |||||
| 51047 | 59408 | 51008 | Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings1 | ||||||
| 51040 | 59409 | 51047 | Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings1 | ||||||
| 51047 | 59397 | 51023 | Noted 06/04/72 - on Ayr depot1 | ||||||
| 51047 | 59411 | 51027 | Noted 25/07/1973 - at Ayr2 | ||||||
| 51033 | 59412 | 51047 | Noted 20/03/76 - (2 DMBSs) in Glasgow Central with 51042/59392/510131 | ||||||
| 417 | 51047 | 59405 | 51009 | Listed at AY - 01/02/81 | |||||
| 126417 | 51047 | 59405 | 51009 | Noted 9th June 1981 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
Images:
March 1982
Set number: 126417
Sc51047 COND at Thornhill, March 1982. Sc51047 in a rake of withdrawn Swindon DMU vehicles at Thornhill sidings in transit to their final destination, the boarded up windows indicating that the vehicle is contaminated with blue asbestos. When researching the scrapping date for this vehicle I discovered that Sc51047 was involved in an accident at Kyle Street Sidings (adjacent to Ayr station) 20/6/61. The set had been routed into a siding containing four tank wagons instead of into an adjacent empty siding. The cab front was quite badly stoved in. The vehicle was repaired and remained in service until 11/81. Andrew McConnell.