Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square / Red Triangle
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Rolls Royce 238hp
Transmission: Hydraulic
Lot Number: 30521
Diagram: 588
14/11/59 | New to | Derby Friargate | - stabled pending allocation |
Dec-59 | Transferred to | 14A (Cricklewood) | |
06/05/73 | Depot code change | CW | |
p/e 24/12/83 | Withdrawn from | CW (Cricklewood) | |
13/05/85 | To Parcels Sector at | LO (Longsight) | |
circa Dec-88 | Sector Change to | RPXN | |
15/05/89 | Withdrawn from | LO (Longsight) RPXN |
12/04/84 - Withdrawn vehicles 51596 + 51597 + 51600 + 51608 + 51611 + 51612 + 51624 + 51627 + 51639 + 51640 + 51642 + 51649 were noted being hauled through Wellingborough, Chesterfield and the Settle and Carlisle line to Carlisle behind 45 056. All would later become parcel vehicles at Longsight.
6th May 1989 - Seen at Longsight depot with parts removed
24th September 1989 - Seen withdrawn at Crewe Basford Hall Yard
51639 - original number
55984 - from May-85 (parcels conversion)
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
51639 | 59613 | 59643 | 51640 | As delivered to Derby Friargate - 14th November 1959 - stabled pending allocation | |||||
51630 | 59597 | 59619 | 51639 | Noted 09/04/77 - on 11.10 Bedford – St. Pancras1 | |||||
51610 | 59608 | 59620 | 51639 | Noted 02/03/79 - on 22.40 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51610 | 59608 | 59620 | 51639 | Noted 04/03/79 - on 13.10 Bedford – Cricklewood and 15.42 Cricklewood – St. Albans1 | |||||
51610 | 59608 | 59620 | 51639 | Noted 07/03/79 - on 18.22 Luton – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51638 | 59605 | 59646 | 51639 | Noted 30/03/79 - on 06.40 Cricklewood – Bedford and 08.15 Bedford – Luton1 | |||||
51638 | 59605 | 59646 | 51639 | Noted 21/04/79 - on 20.10 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51638 | 59605 | 59646 | 51639 | Noted 22/04/79 - on 05.40 Cricklewood – St. Pancras and 06.30 St. Pancras – Bedford1 | |||||
51638 | 59605 | 59646 | 51639 | Noted 23/04/79 - on 18.22 Luton – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51638 | 59605 | 59646 | 51639 | Noted 30/04/79 - on 14.09 Cricklewood – Luton1 | |||||
51606 | 59610 | 59622 | 51639 | Noted 23/05/79 - on 15.03 Luton – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51596 | 59612 | 59646 | 51639 | Noted 24/08/79 - on 08.01 Luton – Bedford1 | |||||
51639 | 59608 | 59641 | 51642 | Noted 12/10/79 - on 20.20 Cricklewood – Luton1 | |||||
51639 | 59608 | 59641 | 51642 | Noted 14/10/79 - on 16.20 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51639 | 59608 | 59641 | 51642 | Noted 23/10/79 - on 12.03 Luton – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51639 | 59612 | 59646 | 51642 | Noted 03/11/79 - on 23.10 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51639 | 59612 | 59646 | 51642 | Noted 24/11/79 - on 19.45 St. Pancras – Bedford1 | |||||
51636 | 59594 | 59629 | 51639 | Noted 22/12/79 - on 04.25 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51611 | 59609 | 59638 | 51639 | Noted 02/03/80 - on 08.20 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51611 | 59609 | 59638 | 51639 | Noted 06/03/80 - on 05.05 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51612 | 59605 | 59647 | 51639 | Noted 08/04/80 - on 16.47 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51612 | 59605 | 59647 | 51639 | Noted 27/05/80 - on 17.56 Cricklewood – St. Albans1 | |||||
51612 | 59605 | 59647 | 51639 | Noted 09/06/80 - on 19.51 Elstree – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51612 | 59605 | 59647 | 51639 | Noted 18/06/80 - on 10.20 Luton – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51618 | 59615 | 59637 | 51639 | Noted 13/07/80 - on 15.42 Cricklewood – Bedford1 | |||||
51618 | 59615 | 59637 | 51639 | Noted 15/08/80 - on 19.37 St. Pancras – Bedford1 | |||||
51618 | 59615 | 59637 | 51639 | Noted 22/08/80 - on 07.30 St. Albans – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51608 | 59592 | 59631 | 51639 | Noted 10/09/80 - on 12.00 Luton – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51636 | 59608 | 59626 | 51639 | Noted 12/11/80 - on 18.18 Cricklewood – Bedford1 | |||||
51636 | 59608 | 59626 | 51639 | Noted 13/11/80 - on 11.00 Bedford – Luton1 | |||||
51636 | 59608 | 59626 | 51639 | Noted 21/11/80 - on 16.05 St. Pancras – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51636 | 59608 | 59626 | 51639 | Noted 02/12/80 - on 02.30 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51636 | 59608 | 59626 | 51639 | Noted 08/12/80 - on 14.00 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51636 | 59613 | 59626 | 51639 | Noted 16/12/80 - on 01.45 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51636 | 59613 | 59626 | 51639 | Noted 19/12/80 - on 11.09 Cricklewood – Luton1 | |||||
51615 | 59613 | 59626 | 51639 | Noted 11/01/81 - on 2C02 04.35 Bedford - St Pancras1 | |||||
51639 | 59614 | 59622 | 51642 | Noted 04/02/81 - on 2G31 23.15 St Pancras – Bedford1 | |||||
51639 | 59614 | 59622 | 51642 | Noted 18/02/81 - on 2K05 17.44 St. Pancras – St Albans1 | |||||
51604 | 59593 | 59620 | 51639 | Noted 28/05/81 - on 22.40 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51607 | 59593 | 59620 | 51639 | Noted 13/06/81 - on 20.40 Bedford – St. Pancras and 22.23 St. Pancras – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51596 | 59608 | 59642 | 51639 | Noted 29/07/81 - on 18.24 Luton – Bedford1 | |||||
51596 | 59589 | 59642 | 51639 | Noted 29/09/81 - on 23.10 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51596 | 59589 | 59642 | 51639 | Noted 22/10/81 - on 21.15 Luton – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51639 | 59594 | 59627 | 51646 | Noted 29/11/81 - on 03.11 Bedford – Flitwick1 | |||||
51639 | 59594 | 59627 | 51646 | Noted 06/12/81 - on 08.15 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51639 | 59594 | 59627 | 51646 | Noted 06/12/81 - on 15.42 Cricklewood – Bedford1 | |||||
51592 | 59590 | 59643 | 51639 | Noted 22/02/82 - on 21.20 Cricklewood – St. Pancras1 | |||||
51592 | 59590 | 59643 | 51639 | Noted 23/02/82 - on 21.20 Cricklewood – St. Pancras1 | |||||
51611 | 59610 | 59645 | 51639 | Noted 1st May 1982 | |||||
51639 | 59610 | 59645 | 51611 | Noted circa 05/19822 | |||||
51597 | 59597 | 59632 | 51639 | Noted 24/06/82 - on 02.30 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51616 | 59597 | 59632 | 51639 | Noted 12/08/82 - on 06.15 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51616 | 59597 | 59632 | 51639 | Noted 24/08/82 - on 11.16 Luton – Bedford1 | |||||
51616 | 59597 | 59632 | 51639 | Noted 24/08/82 - on 01.45 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51616 | 59597 | 59620 | 51639 | Noted 29/08/82 - on 12.00 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51616 | 59597 | 59620 | 51639 | Noted 03/09/82 - on 15.00 Bedford – Luton1 | |||||
51612 | 59647 | 59589 | 51639 | Noted circa 10/19822 | |||||
51605 | 59597 | 59620 | 51639 | Noted 01/10/82 - on 15.00 Bedford – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51612 | 59589 | 59647 | 51639 | Noted 02/11/82 - on 15.00 Luton – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51612 | 59589 | 59647 | 51639 | Noted 03/11/82 - on 21.54 Cricklewood – St. Pancras1 | |||||
51612 | 59589 | 59647 | 51639 | Noted 05/11/82 - on 15.00 St. Pancras – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51612 | 59589 | 59647 | 51639 | Noted 20/11/82 - on 20.40 Bedford – Leagrave1 | |||||
51612 | 59589 | 59647 | 51639 | Noted 25/11/82 - on 04.13 St. Pancras – Cricklewood, 04.29 Cricklewood – St. Pancras, 04.55 St. Pancras – Luton and 06.30 Luton – Cricklewood1 | |||||
51639 | 59591 | 59644 | 51644 | Noted circa 01/19832 | |||||
51639 | 59591 | 59644 | 51644 | Noted 08/01/83 - on 14.12 Cricklewood – Luton1 | |||||
51638 | 59591 | 59626 | 51639 | Noted 28/01/83 - on 20.46 St. Albans – Bedford1 | |||||
51600 | 51639 | Noted circa 01/19842 | |||||||
55974 | 55984 | Noted 23/07/85 | |||||||
914 | 55974 | 55984 | Listed at Longsight - Summer 1986 - Parcels |
Formation Sources
1: Phil Shatford
2: Eddie Knorn
Class 127 power cars on Leicester depot, 31-5-83. Centre seems to be 51639 which would become one of the parcel conversions. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
Class 127 parcel set 4 in Manchester Victoria on 14 December 1985. M55984 still has to have a roller door fitted, M55974 has the experimental roller door at the front of the vehicle. Robert Forsythe.
Former Bedford-St Pancras Class 127 DMU cars, converted for parcels use with roller shutter doors and numbered M55984 & M55974 (914), were stabled at Croft Street Sidings adjacent to Fylde Junction and the Preston PSB on March 30th 1986. There had been 11 x 2-car parcel units formed in 1985 (sets 910-920) utilising redundant and modified Class 127 DMBS vehicles. Martyn Hilbert.
A Class 127 parcel DMU with 55984 closest, location unknown, circa 1986. Paul Redmond.
Class 127 DPU 55984, set 914 presumably paired with 55985, at Crewe on 20 August 1986. Dave Warby.
Two Class 127 parcel units pass though Northampton on 2 May 1987. Lewis Bevan.
Class 127 55984, set number 914, is seen stabled outside the Factory at Tyseley on 28.06.1987. This was converted from 51639. Andy Cole.
Class 127 parcels DMU set 914 at Normanton-on-Soar on 20th February 1989. Closest is thought to be 55984. Andrew Walker.
Class 127 55984, set number 914, is seen inside the factory at Tyseley while undergoing repairs on 01.04.1989. This car was rebuilt from 51639, from a passenger car into a parcels carrying car, complete with roller doors. These sets normally kept to formation, but 55984's partner 55974 was scrapped early on, and on this day it was partnered with 55971. Andy Cole.
Class 127 parcel vehicles M55984 + M55980, M55983 + M55973 and M55981 sit behind 03170 (the last ever Swindon works overhaul) and a brake van on Longsight TMD, 6-5-89. It was just over a week before the whole fleet of Class 127 DPUs were withdrawn, but these five were already out of use and used as a source of spare parts. Kevin Dowd.
Class 127 parcel unit 55974 + 55984 seen at Preston on 8-5-85. Ian Cuthbertson Collection.
A Class 127 parcel DMU formation at Carnforth sometime in 1985, circa October. M55979 leads, its partner will be M55969. The third vehicle is easily identified by the roller shutter door as M55974, its partner will be M55984. There are some blue/grey vehicles on the rear, likely Mk1 BGs. Stuart Mackay Collection.
55979 with 55969 (and behind, out of sight are 55974 and 55984 and a BG). Taken at Carnforth on 6/10/85. Robert Frise.
55974 and 55984 are led by 55979 with 55969 (out of sight) and are hauling a BG when seen at Carnforth on 6/10/85. Robert Frise.
I didn't see or photograph many class 127 Diesel Parcel Units but do have this shot of set 914, formed of 55974 + 55984 shortly after it had passed through Manchester Victoria on 27 February 1986. Irritatingly, this one one of a small handful of slides that weren't taken in sun during the whole period I was here, on the platform of the former Exchange Station. A class 120 unit is about to enter the terminus platforms at Victoria and the end of a journey from Blackpool. Peter Tandy.
Seen at Buxton on 3rd October 1986 in what is now in its second role, but originally built as 4 car units is this 1959 Derby Suburban now a Longsight allocated class 127 dmu set 915, 55985 (51619) + 55984 (51639). From new these units were almost exclusively used on the London St Pancras - Bedford services as 4-car units before being displaced in June 1983, in 1985 22 redundant power cars which had been stored at Carlisle were rebuilt to form 11 two car parcels units, car A was for Express Parcels and car B was for Newspapers, they lasted in service until 1989. Andrew J Crowther.
ADB977191, 915 M55975 + M55985, M55969+M55968, 914 M55980 + M55984 and 911 M55970 + M55971 at Crewe Basford Hall on 24-9-89. Kevin Dowd.