Vehicle 51334
Class 117
Builder: Pressed Steel
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30546
Diagram: 534
Allocations
| Feb-60 | New to | 81C (Southall) | |
| Apr-66 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
| 28/02/76 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 16/05/82 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) | |
| 04/10/87 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
| 06/04/94 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) RAHV | |
| Apr-98 | Withdrawn from | HA (Haymarket) |
Notes
30/07/83 - Western Region set B436 made it to Norwich working a relief service from Birmingham.
24th January 1997 - Seen in RR ScotRail livery
Modifications
6w/e 10/02/73 - Dual AWS fitted
Jun-75 - WR AWS removed
Refurbished
At Swindon Works dated 07/04/1977 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51334 | 59486 | 51376 | As delivered to Southall - February 1960 | ||||||
| SHL300 | 51334 | 59486 | 51376 | Listed at Southall - circa Oct-60 | |||||
| 51334 | 59486 | 51376 | Noted July 1967 | ||||||
| 400 | 51334 | 59486 | 51376 | Listed at Reading - Apr-68 - was R334, gangwayed set | |||||
| 400 | 51334 | 59538 | 59486 | 51376 | Noted circa May-68 | ||||
| 400 | 51334 | 59486 | 59538 | 51376 | Noted 23/08/69 - working the Bulmers and Welsh Border railtour. | ||||
| 51334 | 59486 | 51376 | Noted 30/10/70 - at Birmingham New Street1 | ||||||
| 51334 | 59486 | 51376 | Noted 21/08/1971 - at Newport2 | ||||||
| 51334 | 59486 | 51376 | Noted 29/10/1973 - at Reading2 | ||||||
| L400 | 51334 | 59486 | 51376 | Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak3 | |||||
| C450 | 51334 | 59031 | 51376 | Listed at CF - 01/05/1976 | |||||
| C450 | 51334 | 59031 | 51376 | Noted 15/12/1977 - Cardiff Central4 | |||||
| C450 | 51334 | 59031 | 51376 | Noted 15/12/1977 - Cardiff Central4 | |||||
| C450 | 51334 | 59031 | 51376 | Listed at CF - 31st December 1977 | |||||
| C450 | 51334 | 59031 | 51376 | Listed at CF - 03/03/80 | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted 20/06/82 - at Weymouth3 | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at BR - 15/12/1982 | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted 03/03/83 - on 2M73 1845 Cardiff-Birmingham New Street | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted 30/07/83 - at Norwich3 | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted circa 12/19835 | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at BR - 01/01/85 | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted circa 09/19855 | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted 30/10/19855 | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at Bristol (Bath Road) - Summer 1986 | |||||
| B436 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at BR - Aug-87 | |||||
| 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Transfer to TS - 04/10/87 - from BR | ||||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988 | |||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted circa 05/19885 | |||||
| 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted 16/07/88 - on 10:05 Nottingham - Derby | ||||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted circa 10/19885 | |||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - 01/09/89 | |||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - 01/12/89 | |||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - mid May-90 | |||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted 19/03/91 - in Birmingham area6 | |||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted 08/04/91 - at Wolverhampton6 | |||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - Jul-91 | |||||
| T311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - Aug-91 | |||||
| 117311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - Dec-91 | |||||
| 117311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - 02/07/92 | |||||
| 117311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - 24/09/92 | |||||
| 117311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - November 1992 | |||||
| 117311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - 10/12/92 | |||||
| 117311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at TS - November 1993 | |||||
| 117311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Noted 24th January 1997 | |||||
| 117311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at HA - 02/12/96 | |||||
| 117311 | 51334 | 59500 | 51376 | Listed at HA - 01/01/98 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Aaron Calder
Images:
15 July 1967
Set number: R334
Pressed Steel Class 117 3-car suburban dmu Nos.W51334 (117/2), W59486 (176), W51376 (117/1) in BR green with small yellow warning panel at Old Oak Common shed Open Day, 15 July 1967. Note the set number on the lower cab corner, sadly unreadable although it ends in a 4 and is likely R334. Hugh Llewelyn.
Unknown date
Set number: 400
Class 117 set 400 (presumably 51334 visible) at Yeovil Pen Mill, with a 119 for company. Steve Davies Collection.
17th August 1974
Set number: L400
A nine-car DMU formation with L400 / W51334 closest in Cardiff Central station with the 1Z67 relief to Paddington on 17 August 1974. Robert Thomas.
Unknown date
Set number: C450
Set C450 heads out of Barry Island. The curved top to the headcode box indicates that the vehicles should be 51334, 59031, and 51376. Undated. Ian Francis.
February 1981
Set number: C450
Class 117 DMU set C450 (51334 + 59031 + 51376) at Merthyr Tydfil sometime in February 1981. Rob Paterson.
Unknown date
Set number: C450
Class 117 DMU set C450 (51334 and presumably 59031 + 51376) at Worcester (Foregate Street). Date unknown - this would be between painting into blue/grey after having white/blue stripe livery and moving to Bristol in May 1982. Paul Redmond.
Unknown date
Set number: C450
Class 117 DMU set C450 (51334, centre car unknown, 51376) at Hereford. Date unknown - this would be between painting into blue/grey after having white/blue stripe livery and moving to Bristol in May 1982. Paul Redmond.
circa June 1984
Set number: B436
Class 117 DMU set B436 (presumably 51334 + 59500 + 51376) waiting to depart from Weymouth. The slide process date was June 1984. Stuart Mackay Collection.
15th December 1984
Set number: B436
An everyday scene at Worcester Shrub Hill from 15 December 1984 with set B436 (presumably 51334 + 59500 + 51376, and another set attached) entering the station with a train from Birmingham New Street which will reverse here before turning left towards Foregate Street and Hereford. In 2021 the gantry of semaphore signals is still extant but a class 37 would not be seen in the former shed while waiting for its next job, along with a fellow class member, as a banker on the Lickey incline. Peter Tandy.
circa mid-1980s
Set number: B436
Class 117 DMU set B436 (presumably 51334 + 59500 + 51376) on the rear of a nine-car suburban formation at Upwey Wishing Well looking towards Dorchester - with the train about to enter Bincombe tunnel. Date unknown, circa mid 1980s, Class 118 set B472 (presumably 51330 + 59482 + 51315) is at the far end. Mike Bunker.
January 1985
Set number: B436
Class 117 set B436 (presumably 51334 59500 51376) heads under Old School lane in Hereford with a train from Worcester in January 1985. John Crooks.
mid-1985
Set number: B436
Class 117 set B436 (51334 and presumably 59500 + 51376) is seen south of Yeovil in mid-1985. Michael Mensing.
Unknown date
Set number: B436
Class 117 set B436 (presumably 51334 + 59500 + 51376) on the North Fulton works train. Undated. Tom Clift.
14th March 1987
Set number: B436
Class 117 DMU set B436 (51334 + 59500 + 51376) arriving at Weymouth on 14-3-87. On Tour With The Class 13 Army.
11th July 1987
Set number: B436
Two-car Class 117 DMU set (presumably 51334 + 51376) with a three-car on the rear (probably L401) at Evershot with the 10:10 Swindon - Weymouth service on 11 July 1987. Michael Mensing.
11th June 1989
Set number: T311
T311 (presumably 51334 + 59500 + 51376) was a Tyseley-based 3-car Class 117 dmu photographed passing Bagworth and Ellistown on a Leicester-Coalville service as part of the arrangements for Coalville Open Day on 11 June 1989. Lewis Bevan.
28th August 1989
Set number: T311
Class 117 Set T311 (presumably 51334 59500 51376) tails 116 set T325 with the 1710 Llandudno - Birmingham New St as they depart Llandudno Junction (at 1724) on Monday 28th August 1989. Colin Brooks.
28th March 1990
Set number: T311
Class 117 DMU T311 formed from 51334 + 59500 + 51376 was photographed at Bishopton, just outside Stratford-upon-Avon, on 28 March 1990. The train was a Birmingham Moor Street to Stratford-upon-Avon, later to return as the 12.26 to the West Midlands. I doubt that it would be possible to take a picture from here in 2024 with only one vehicle on the A46 road. Peter Tandy.
July 1991
Set number: T311
As the sun stayed out at Stratford-upon-Avon after T311 (51334 + 59500 + 51376) had arrived from Birmingham in July 1991 I took another shot as it stood under the GWR footbridge. Class 150 Sprinters were regularly appearing here by this time and T311 wasn't showing as allocated to Tyseley later in the year. Peter Tandy.
24th August 1993
A long line of 117 and 115 vehicles at Nottingham, including 51334 - the Regional Railways DMBS. Thought to be taken on the 24th August 1993. Stuart Mackay Collection.
11th September 1993
Set number: 117311
Cross-City DMU Farewell, 11th September 1993: 117311 with 51334 leading arrives at New St on the 12:45 ex-Longbridge. Kevin Dowd.
11th September 1993
Set number: 117311
Cross-City DMU Farewell, 11th September 1993: 117311 51334+59500+51376 on the 14:15 to New St at Longbridge. Kevin Dowd.
18th September 1993
Set number: 117211
I spent a couple of hours at Bentley Heath Crossing on 18 September 1993 and along with quite a selection of freight photographed Regional Railways 117211 (51376 + 51334) working on a Birmingham Snow Hill to Dorridge diagram. It is seen here approaching the footbridge over the road crossing itself before leaving the up main line to run into platform 3 at Dorridge. Peter Tandy.
8th May 1994
Set number: 117211
117211 at Culloden 08/05/94 5Z61 1545 Inverness - Perth. The set, returning from Inverness after having NRN radio equipment added at the depot, had recently had the centre car re-instated and would become 117311 (presumably 51334 + 59500 + 51376). Roddy MacPhee.
12th October 1994
Set number: 117311
51334 is at the front of set number 117 311 (presumably with 59500 + 51376) in Edinburgh Waverley station on 12.10.1994. Andy Cole.
5th April 1995
Set number: 117311
The 17:45 Fife Inner Circle service is formed of set 117311 (presumably 51334 + 59500 + 51376) when seen at Turnhouse on August 5, 1995. Hamish Stevenson.
26th September 1997
Set number: 117311
The interior of 51334, taken onboard the 17:05 Edinburgh Waverley to Edinburgh Waverley via the Fife Circle service. We traveled on this from Inverkeithing to Waverley on the final part of the journey. Stuart Mackay.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: circa late 1960s
Set number: 400
Class 117 set 400 at Yetminster with Oxford on the destination blind. It has a Class 101 center car added, making it a 4-car set. The date is unknown, but probably late 1960s when it ran as 51376 + 59538 + 59486 + 51334. Taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 23rd August 1969
Set number: 400
The RCTS Bulmer and Welsh Border Railtour at Bulmers on April 23, 1969. Set 400 would be 51376 + 59486 + 51334, the Met-Camm centre car is possibly 59538. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: unknown
Set number: C450
Class 117 DMU set C450 (51376, centre car unknown - and presumably 51334) at Hereford (Barrs Court). Date unknown - this would be between painting into blue/grey after having white/blue stripe livery and moving to Bristol in May 1982. Paul Redmond.
Date: unknown
Set number: C450
Class 117 DMU set C450 (51376 and presumably 59031 + 51334) at Worcester (Foregate Street). Date unknown - this would be between painting into blue/grey after having white/blue stripe livery and moving to Bristol in May 1982. Paul Redmond.
Date: unknown
Set number: B436
Class 117 DMU set B436, presumably 51376 + 59500 + 51334, at Teignmouth on an unknown date. Stuart Parkinson.
Date: spring 1984
Set number: B436
Class 117 DMU set B436 (presumably 51376 + 59500 + 51334) seen in Bruton station on the Bristol - Weymouth line in spring 1984. Michael Mensing.
Date: circa June 1984
Set number: B436
Class 117 DMU set B436 (presumably 51376 + 59500 + 51334) waiting to depart from Weymouth. The slide process date was June 1984. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: circa mid-1980s
Set number: B472
A nine-car suburban DMU formation with Class 118 set B472 leading (presumably 51315 + 59482 + 51330) passes through the closed Upwey Wishing Well Halt station from the Weymouth direction, date unknown. Circa mid-1980s, Class 117 set B436 (presumably 51376 + 59500 + 51334) is on the rear. Mike Bunker.
Date: 7th April 1986
Set number: B436
Class 117 DMU set B436 (presumably 51376 + 59500 + 51334) at Severn Beach on a very wet 7th April 1986. Jonathan Hazan.
Date: 18th July 1986
Set number: B436
Class 117 DMU set B436 (presumably 51376 + 59500 + 51334) passing Port Talbot box on the 17:20 Cardiff - Swansea, 18 July 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 20th September 1986
Set number: B436
On its way to Weymouth on 20th September 1986 class 117 set B436 (presumably 51334 + 59500 + 51376) is seen at Westbury. Ian Buck.
Date: 11th July 1987
Set number: L401
Class 117 DMU set L401 (presumably 51375 + 59485 + 51333) with a 2-car on the rear thought to be B436 (51376 + 51334) seen at Evershot with a Weymouth - Swindon service on 11 July 1987. Michael Mensing.
Date: 11th June 1989
Set number: T311
T311 (presumably 51376 + 59500 + 51334) was a Tyseley-based 3-car Class 117 dmu photographed passing Bagworth and Ellistown on a Leicester-Coalville service as part of the arrangements for Coalville Open Day on 11 June 1989. Lewis Bevan.
Date: 11th June 1989
Set number: T311
Class 117 DMU set T311 (presumably 51376 + 59500 + 51334) heads towards Coalville for the 1989 Open Day and is seen here approaching Merry Lees in Leicestershire. The date was 11th June. Andrew Walker.
Date: 28th August 1989
Set number: T325
Class 116 Set T325 (presumably 51142 59757 53060) and 117 Set T311 (presumably 51334 + 59500 + 51376) 2XXX 1710 Llandudno - Birmingham New St curve into Deganwy (at 1717) on Monday 28th August 1989. Colin Brooks.
Date: 17th November 1990
Set number: T311
Tyseley's Class 117 set T311 led by 51376, with 59500 and 51334, at Stratford-upon-Avon on 17/Nov/1990. Robert Chilton.
Date: 26th April 1991
Set number: T311
Class 117 DMU T311 (presumably 51376 + 59500 + 51334) were pictured arriving at Stratford-upon-Avon with an early afternoon train from Leamington Spa on 26 April 1991. The signalling arrangements had recently been changed here with a new starting signal for platform 2 and alterations to the point locking arrangements for the exit from platform 1 meaning that trains were able to depart directly from there, under the control of the tall starter, rather having to shunt to P2. Trains were still not able to arrive directly into P2, this not being possible until later signalling changes when control was shifted to the West Midlands Signalling Centre at Saltley. Peter Tandy.
Date: July 1991
Set number: T311
Class 117 DMU T311 formed of 51376 + 59500 + 51334 was photographed arriving at Stratford-upon-Avon with an afternoon service from Birmingham in July 1991. Most of the infrastructure in the background has gone and there isn't an equivalent shot worth the effort in 2022. Peter Tandy.
Date: 27th June 1992
Set number: 117311
Pressed Steel set 117 311 (51376 + 59500 + 51334) at Worksop with the 12:45 Sheffield - Lincoln on 27 June 1992. John Carter.
Date: circa 1993
Set number: 117211
Bentley Heath crossing is a few hundred yards to the north of Dorridge station and the footbridge there offers a decent viewoint in either direction. This picture shows 2 coach 117211 (presumably 51376 + 51334) crossing over the pointwork from the up main line to the down platform loop with a local train from Birmingham Moor Street to Dorridge. These still ran at regular intervals throughout the day with one per hour being extended to Stratford-upon-Avon although in August 2021 these are replaced with buses between Dorridge and Stratford because of train crew shortages. Circa 1993. Peter Tandy.
Date: 30th August 1993
Set number: 117211
On August 30 1993, 117211 (presumably 51376 + 51334) passes Wainfleet's distant signal with the 11:18 Crewe - Skegness. Mel Holley.
Date: 11th September 1993
Set number: 117311
Cross-City DMU Farewell, 11th September 1993: 117311 (51376+59500+51334) crosses over for the return service at Longbridge after arriving on the 13:20 ex-New St. Kevin Dowd.
Date: 18th September 1993
Set number: 117211
Trains terminating at Dorridge form connections to local stations further down the line and therefore leave after an express from London Marylebone have passed. This is 117211 (51376 + 51334) just after joining the down main line at Bentley Heath on its journey to Birmingham Snow Hill on 18 September 1993. Peter Tandy.
Date: 20th April 1996
Set number: 117311
117 311 (51376 + 59500 + 51334) at Edinburgh Waverley, 20th April 1996. Robert Frise.
Date: 26th September 1997
Set number: 117311
117311 (51376 presumably with 59500 + 51334) at Dunfermline Townhill with the 17:05 Edinburgh Waverley - Fife Circle service. Stuart Mackay.