Vehicle 51061
Class 119
Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30421
Diagram: 540
Allocations
| 4w/e 24/01/59 | New to | 82B (Bristol Marsh Junction) | |
| Jul-64 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| w/e 04/05/68 | Transferred to | 60A (Inverness) | |
| Dec-68 | Withdrawn from | 60A (Inverness) |
Disposal
Scrapped by TJ Thomson, Stockton
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51061 | 59420 | 51089 | As delivered to WR - 4w/e 24/01/59 | ||||||
| 51061 | 59420 | 51089 | 16th February 1959 - Arrived at Weymouth for crew training (1 week) | ||||||
| RDG500 | 51061 | 51089 | Noted circa Mar-67 - in blue livery |
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: mid-1960s
A two-car GRC&W Cross-Country DMU at Newbury, heading for Reading. Reading had two of these sets from 1964 (51053 + 51081 and 51061 + 51089). Both were blue by March 1967 which dates this to mid-1960s. Graham Clark.
Date: circa 1967
Set number: 501
A two-car GRC&W Cross-Country DMU labelled set 501 at Bedwyn. Undated, but the plain blue livery with small yellow panel dates it as the late 1960s. The vehicles are probably 51089 + 51061. Graham Clark.
Date: circa 1967
Set number: 501
Cross-Country GRC&W set 501 at Bedwyn in the late 1960s, the vehicles are probably 51089 + 51061. The marker light adjacent to the tail lamp is missing it's lens, perhaps been caught by a tail lamp being put on / off? Graham Clark.
Date: circa 1967
Set number: 501
A two-car GRC&W Cross-Country set at Bedwyn circa 1967. At the time Reading had two two-car sets allocated, 500 and 501, formed from 51053/61 and 51081/89, so this could be 51089 + 51061 if the higher set number contained the higher numbered vehicles. The two sets were transferred to the unlikely location of Inverness in May 1968. Graham Clark.