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
May-60 | New to | 81C (Southall) | |
Mar-67 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
Jan-68 | Transferred to | 84A (Laira) | |
4w/e 04/05/68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
18/09/92 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) NWRX | |
03/12/93 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) NWRX | |
07/12/93 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) NWRX |
8w/e 01/01/72 - Dual AWS fitted
Jun-75 - WR AWS removed
Preserved - more details.
51347 | 59499 | 51389 | As delivered to Southall - May 1960 | ||||||
SHL306 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at Southall - Aug-60 | |||||
RDG340 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted circa Jan-68 - in plain blue with small yellow panels, became LA314 | |||||
51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted circa May-68 | ||||||
51347 | 59409 | 51389 | Noted 07/03/70 - at Royal Oak1 | ||||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - 01/05/1976 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 16/05/1977 - Oxford Station2 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 27/10/1977 - Oxford Station2 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - 31st December 1977 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 11/02/1980 - At Oxford2 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - 03/03/80 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - 15/12/1982 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted circa 01/19843 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - 01/01/85 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 25/11/1985 - Hertfordshire Rail Tours The Anglian Vibrator Railtour L411+55021+L412 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 05/04/19863 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at Reading - Summer 1986 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 12/07/1986 - Hertfordshire Railtours and Southern Electric Group The Fen Tiger L412+L424 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59478 | 51389 | Formation change - circa Dec-86 - 59478 replaced fire damaged 59499 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59478 | 51389 | Noted circa 01/19873 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59478 | 51389 | Noted 24th January 1987 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 24/01/19873 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted circa 08/19873 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - Aug-87 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - 15/05/89 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - 21/01/91 | |||||
51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 09/04/92 - on 14:17 Paddington - Reading4 | ||||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - 24/02/92 - NSE NWRX pool | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 17/06/92 - at Royal Oak1 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at RG - 12/08/92 | |||||
L412 | 51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Listed at OO - November 1992 - Sector NWRX | |||||
51347 | 59499 | 51389 | Noted 09/11/92 - on 11:26 Gatwick - Reading4 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Shayne Lewis
3: Eddie Knorn
4: David Bellamy
W51347 is at the head of Class 117 set L412 (presumably with 59499 + 51389) approaching Slough station with a Paddington service on April 2nd, 1977. Rex Holt.
Class 117 DMU set L412 (51347 and presumably 59499 + 51389) arriving into London Paddington. Circa late 1970s - it was refurbished in October 1978. Paul Redmond.
Class 117 DMU set L412 (51347 and presumably 59499 + 51389) at Reading. Circa late 1970s - it was refurbished in October 1978. Paul Redmond.
Class 117 DMUs at Oxford on 14 September 1979. On the left L412 (presumably 51347 + 59499 + 51389) is having mail loaded or unloaded and on the right L429 (presumably 51409 + 59519 + 51367) is arriving. Brian Daniels.
Class 117 DMU set L412 (presumably 51347 + 59499 + 51389) in Bicester Town station on 19 May 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 117 DMU set L412 (presumably 51347 + 59499 + 51389) seen on a Maidenhead service at West Ealing Jacobs Ladder footbridge on 22 September 1987. Roger Geach.
Class 117 set L412 (51347 and presumably 59499 + 51389) departs from Reading with the 12:08 (SO) to Bedwyn on 17 August 1989. Robert Thomas.
An unusual visitor to Tyseley in about February 1991 as class 117 L412 (51347 + 59499 + 51389) called at the station with a train either from Shirley or Stratford-upon-Avon. The unit was allocated to Reading depot at the time and as far as I can establish was never one of Tyseley's sets. The Midlands depot was well-known at the time for getting hold of "foreign" units to fill in gaps in their own increasingly unreliable trains. Peter Tandy.
Class 117 DMBS 51347 in Didcot station on 8 February 1992. Alongside is 56 008 which was one of the locos used on a DAA tour from Waterloo. Roger Geach.
Pressed Steel set 409 in Bourne End station, date unknown. The set number probably dates it between January 1968, when the 4xx series was introduced, and 1972, when the letter prefixes were added. The vehicles in the set at that time were 51389 + 59499 + 51347. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 117 DMU set L412 (51389 and presumably 59499 + 51347) at Reading (General), date unknown. Paul Redmond.
Class 117 DMU set L412 (51389 and presumably 59499 + 51347) in London Paddington. Circa late 1970s - it was refurbished in October 1978. Paul Redmond.
Class 117 DMU set L412 (presumably 51389 + 59499 + 51347) at Kennington with an Oxford service on 15 January 1980. Brian Daniels.
Pressed Steel set L412 (51389 + 59499 + 51347) in the original white refurbished livery leaves the dead end Platform 6 at Reading and heads towards Paddington. Note that the destination blind still reads Reading (General). Tony Watson.
Pressed Steel Class 117 DMU set L412 arrives at Twyford with a Paddington service on 26 April 1980. The leading vehicle, DMS W51389, has one oval and one cut/square buffer, the other two vehicles are presumably W59499 + W51347. Stuart Mackay Collection.
With an oval buffer and a 'cut' buffer, W51389 leads Class 117 set L412 (presumably with 59499 + 51347) through Sonning Cutting in June 1980. Karel 1999.
W51389 leads Class 117 set L412 (presumably with 59499 + 51347) at Kings Sutton on April 11, 1981. It is displaying Banbury (General) on the destination blind. Steve Davies Collection.
Class 117 set L412 (presumably 51389 + 59499 + 51347) just arrived at Reading, date unknown. Walter Burt.
L412 (51389 + 59499 + 51347) at the end of The Anglian Vibrator railtour seen at Wisbech, 23/11/85. Chris Lings.
Set L412, 51389/59499/51347, at head of Set L121, 55021, and Set L411, 51388/59498/51346, at Wisbech with ‘The East Anglian Vibrator’ on 23 November 1985. Rob Paterson.
Set L411, 51346/59498/51388, at rear of Set L412, 51389/59499/51347 and Set L121, 55021, at Hardingham, Norfolk, with ‘The East Anglian Vibrator’ railtour on 23 November 1985. Rob Paterson.
Set L411, 51346/59498/51388 with Set L121, 55021, and Set L412, 51347/59499/51389 out of sight, at North Elmham, Norfolk, with ‘The East Anglian Vibrator’ on 23 November 1985. Rob Paterson.
Hertfordshire Railtours 1G30 King`s Cross to Wisbech, Dereham and North Elmham `Anglian Vibrator` charter leaving the Wisbech branch at March Whitemoor Junction on 23 November 1985. Six Bells Junction lists the vehciles as W51346 + 59498 + 51388 / 55021 / 51347 + 59499 + 51389. Phil Bevan.
In rapidly fading light the Hertfordshire Railtours 'Anglian Vibrator' railtour is seen during a photostop at what was once Dereham station on the Mid Norfolk line. This DMU tour on November 23, 1985, was a seven car formation comprising Western Region sets L411 (51346 + 59498 + 51388) + L121 (55021) + L412 (51347 + 59499 + 51389) and ran as train 1G30 07.35 London Kings Cross to London Kings Cross covering primarily the Wisbech and North Elmham freight branches. The 16 mile North Elmham branch from Wymondham taking 3hrs 10mins to cover out and back because of the multitude of manual crossings operated by the traincrew. Adrian Nicholls.
Wisbech on the 12th of July 1986. Class 117 DMU sets L424 (51404 + 59514 + 51362) and L412 (presumably 51347 + 59499 + 51389) are on the Fen Tiger Railtour run jointly by Hertfordshire Railtours and the South Electric Group. The tour set out from Reading and travelled via Victoria, Kensington, the North London Line, Stratford, Finsbury Park and Peterborough. It went on to Kings Lynn and then back via Cambridge, Stratford, the North London line and Victoria. The KDH Archive.
Class 117 DMU sets L412 (51389 + 59499 + 51347) and L424 (51362 + 59514 + 51404) approaching Whitemoor, heading for Wisbech with 1Z25 `Fen Tiger` charter from Reading to London Victoria (via Wisbech, Kings Lynn Dock, and Middleton Towers) on 12 July 1986. Phil Bevan.
51389 (+ 59499 + 51347) at the head of the 'Fen Tiger' railtour seen at Kings Lynn on the 12th July 1986. Chris Lings.
NSE-liveried Class 117 set L412 (51389 and presumably 59499 + 51347) at Slough on the 15:45 London Paddington-Reading. John Carter.
Class 117 set number L412 (presumably with DMBS 51347 nearest the camera) leaves Paddington with a service for Maidenhead on 6 November, 1991. Glen Batten.
With the position of the sun 'wrong' for an approaching shot, this view was taken from the rear. The front set is number L412 and that nearest the camera is L596. Taken at 17:14, a late afternoon Up service for Paddington on the Relief Line at West Ealing station. 31st March 1992. Presumably Class 119 L596 is formed of 51099 + 59416 + 51076 and Class 117 L412 51347 + 59499 + 51389. Alistair Fyffe.