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Vehicle 51115 / 975348 / 51115

Class 100

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30444
Diagram: 536

Allocations

w/e 30/11/57	New to	64A (St Margarets)
c. summer-58	Transferred to	Leith Central
Nov-59	Depot code change	64H
Jul-60	On loan to	66C (Hamilton)
2w/e 28/01/61	Transferred to	64H (Leith Central)
3w/e 30/04/66	Transferred to	67A (Corkerhill)
3w/e 02/07/66	Transferred to	66C (Hamilton)
3w/e 17/06/67	On loan to	South Gosforth
2w/e 01/07/67	Transferred to	South Gosforth
3w/e 15/03/69	Transferred to	31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 28/06/69	Transferred to	32A (Norwich)
w/e 28/10/72	Withdrawn from	32A (Norwich)
May-73	Depot code change	NO
Sep-73	Depot code change	NR
Mar-74	To departmental stock	NL (Neville Hill)	- as DB975348
28/03/76	Reinstated	NR (Norwich)	- returned to operating stock
p/e 12/10/80	Transferred to	LO (Longsight)
05/12/82	Withdrawn from	LO (Longsight)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

51115 - original number
975348 - from May-74 (departmental stock)
51115 - from 28/03/76 (returned to passenger use)

Department Use as TDB975348

Inspection Saloon. Returned to passenger use in March 1976 From 3/74 to 3/76.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51115	56307	As delivered to 64A - November 1957
	51115	56307	Transfer to 67A - 4w/e 07/05/66
	51115	56364	Noted 18/09/70 - at Ely¹
	975348	975349	Noted 03/01/75 - on Neville Hill depot²
73	51115	56114	Noted 04/06/76 - at Bury St Edmunds²
73	51115	56300	Noted 11/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds²
73	51115	56448	Noted 09/05/77 - at Bury St Edmunds²
	51115	56448	Noted 26/06/1977 - Set noted on this date working a special from Ipswich to Sizewell Siding and return. Point of origin and tour operator are unknown
73	51115	56137	Noted 03/08/78 - at Norwich²
73	51115	56137	Noted 23/09/1978 - Wisbech & March Railway Action Committee passenger special from Wisbech Goods to Cambridge and return
73	51115	56137	Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
LO305	51115	56465	Noted circa 05/1982³
	51115	56465	Noted circa 09/1982³

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Unknown date

A lightly loaded GRC&W twin-set with DMBS Sc51115 closest arriving into the east end of Edinburgh Waverley, date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.

6th July 1959

A GRC&W twin DMU (DMBS SC51115 closest) seen in Joppa station with a Musselburgh service on 6 July 1959. Stuart Mackay Collection.

1970

Passengers line the platform at Ely as a DMU (GRC&W DMBS E51115 in view) arrives on the 13.40 from Leicester sometime during 1970. Tom Burnham.

24th January 1971

The 13.20 from Cambridge to Peterborough North departs from March on 24 January 1971. Closest car is E51115, it appears to be a GRC&W / Met-Camm and Cravens / Met-Camm formation. The signalbox is March North Junction. Tom Burnham.

3rd August 1976

Set number: 73

The blind says that E51115 is heading for Bishops Stortford, and signs in the cab proclaim it is set 73, "3 TUE" is thought to be when maintenance was due. Seen at Cambridge on Tuesday 3/8/76, it's paired with a Class 105 vehicle. Ian Francis.

circa 1979

Set number: 73

Gloucester RCW Class 100 (Norwich set 73, probably with DMBS E51115 nearest camera) at Doncaster whilst "Pinky" 47370 heads a southbound coal train - c.1979 In 1976 Set 73 comprised DMBS E51115 paired with an unknown Class 105 vehicle. Set 73 has probably just arrived on 0910 from Cambridge via the Joint Line. 53A Models of Hull Collection.

23rd February 1980

Set number: 73

Gloucester RCW Class 100 Motor Brake Second E51115 leads an Ipswich to Lowestoft service at Westerfield on 23 February,1980. Glen Batten.

27th September 1980

Set number: 73

Class 100 E51115 at York station on 27 September 1980. We had travelled from Edinburgh overnight to join the RCTS (West Riding Branch) North Eastern No.5 Railtour but this meant hours roaming York station in the wee small hours waiting for the first train of the day to Leeds. Photographing this relatively unusual visitor relieved the monotony a little. Alistair Ness.

June 1982

Longsight Lash-up on the Shuttle. Not THE celebrity pairing which lasted a few more years, but this is another Gloucester / Cravens hybrid set on the Stalybridge to Stockport shuttle entering Guide Bridge in June 1982. Here we see M51115 paired with M56465, both of which started their lives in Scotland at Leith Central and Kittybrewster respectively. They were both withdrawn by the end of the year. Murray Liston.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 14th November 1970

DMU leaving Yarmouth Vauxhall on November 14, 1970. The 14.47 to Norwich is passing the signalbox on a drizzly November day. The extensive carriage sidings can be seen in the distance. Closest is Class 101 DTCL E56364, furthest is Class 100 E51115. Tom Burnham.

Date: unknown

Set number: 64

A 6-car formation seen at Norwich, from left to right are 56307 + 51111, 51115 + 56100, 51282 (105) + 56300. Circa early/mid-1970s. Tim Stubbs.

Date: 9th April 1990

TDB975349 + TDB975539 at Doncaster on 9 April 1990. 975349 had started its departmental career with the Civil Engineers department in 1974 paired with TDB975348 (ex 51115) but in 1975 it was split up as 51115 reverted to capital stock and the remaining vehicle was paired in 1976 with TDB 975539 (ex 56101) converted to a managers saloon in late 1975. It ended its days allocated to Cambridge Depot being withdrawn in 1992. It went for scrap at M.C. Metals in Glasgow and was cut up in August 1993. Adrian Nicholls.

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