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: 30548
Diagram: 535
Jul-60 | New to | 81C (Southall) | |
Apr-66 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
Apr-82 | Withdrawn from | RG (Reading) |
p/e 12/08/72 - Dual AWS fitted
Jun-75 - WR AWS removed
5/11/74 - Cropredy
Derailment involving Class 117
Info from Peter Mullen
The 6:54 Leamington Spa to Oxford derailed at Cropredy, after a length of rail had fractured under a preceding freight train. More Details.
18th December 1981 - Twyford
Collision involving Class 117
Class 117 set L423 led by 51403 on the 23:13 Henley - Twyfordran through the buffers at Twyford after a brake failure. It demolished the bufferstops at the end of the bay platform and landed partly in the station approach on top of a parked car. The scene was attended to the next day by the Old Oak Common breakdown train which rerailed the unit. 51403 would be withdrawn.
Scrapped by BR, Reading Depot
51361 | 59513 | 51403 | As delivered to 81C - July 1960 | ||||||
SHL314 | 51361 | 59513 | 51403 | Listed at Southall - circa Oct-60 | |||||
416 | 51361 | 59513 | 51403 | Listed at Reading - Apr-68 - was R335, gangwayed set | |||||
L416 | 51361 | 59543 | 59513 | 51403 | Noted 30/09/1973 - 51370-59522-51412 + 51341-59493-51383 + 51361-59453-59513-51403 (L466-L454-L416) BR Merrymaker excursion Oxford to Brighton | ||||
51361 | 59513 | 59543 | 51403 | Noted 29/10/1973 - at Reading1 | |||||
51361 | 59513 | 51403 | Noted 08/04/1974 - at Reading1 | ||||||
51361 | 59513 | 51403 | Noted 22/03/76 - in Paddington2 | ||||||
L423 | 51361 | 59513 | 51403 | Listed at RG - 01/05/1976 | |||||
L423 | 51361 | 59513 | 51403 | Listed at RG - 31st December 1977 | |||||
L423 | 51361 | 59513 | 51403 | Noted 05/06/1978 - Oxford Station3 | |||||
L423 | 51361 | 59513 | 51403 | Listed at RG - 03/03/80 | |||||
L423 | 51361 | 59513 | 51403 | Noted 24/01/1981 - Farewell to Staines West Branch special train L403+L422+L423 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Shayne Lewis
Class 117 DMU set L423 (presumably 51403 + 59513 + 51361) at Oxford with a service for Banbury on 21 March 1979. Brian Daniels.