Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30530
Diagram: 598
02/04/60 | New to | 14A (Cricklewood) | |
4w/e 28/05/60 | Transferred to | 9E (Trafford Park) | |
Nov-60 | Transferred to | 8H (Allerton) | |
4w/e 01/04/61 | Stored | Marylebone | |
4w/e 01/07/61 | Transfer | 14F (Marylebone) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 1D | |
May-73 | Depot code change | ME | |
Oct-88 | Transferred to | BY (Bletchley) | |
21/01/92 | Sector Change to | BY (Bletchley) NGBX | |
17/12/92 | Withdrawn from | BY (Bletchley) NGBX |
Jan-85 - AWS fitted
Aug-87 - Gangway(s) fitted
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
51655 | 59651 | 59666 | 51656 | As delivered to 14A - 02/04/60 | |||||
51656 | 59652 | 59673 | 51676 | Noted 19/11/70 - at Marylebone1 | |||||
51656 | 59752 | 59734 | 51833 | Noted 18/06/77 - on Marylebone depot2 | |||||
51656 | 59740 | 59751 | 51878 | Noted 24/05/80 | |||||
51656 | 59669 | 59725 | 51893 | Noted 04/05/81 - working The Quaintonian shuttle | |||||
51656 | 59669 | 59725 | 51893 | Noted 15/05/81 - at Aylesbury2 | |||||
51656 | 59649 | 59762 | 51679 | Noted circa 02/19843 | |||||
51656 | 59731 | 59672 | 51679 | Noted circa 04/19843 | |||||
51656 | 59678 | 59730 | 51657 | Noted circa 04/19853 | |||||
51651 | 59669 | 59731 | 51656 | Noted 10/09/85 - on 09.38 Marylebone – Banbury and 12.20 Banbury – Marylebone4 | |||||
51651 | 59669 | 59731 | 51656 | Noted 23/09/85 - on 16.15 Marylebone – Aylesbury via Princes Risborough and 17.36 Aylesbury – Marylebone via Princes Risborough4 | |||||
51656 | 59759 | 59729 | 51666 | Noted circa 10/19853 | |||||
51666 | 59729 | 59755 | 51656 | Noted circa 11/19853 | |||||
51656 | 59655 | 59749 | 51667 | Noted 17/03/86 - on 12.38 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 14.01 High Wycombe – Marylebone4 | |||||
51656 | 59655 | 59749 | 51667 | Noted 25/03/86 - on 17.40 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51658 + 59652 + 59764 + 518804 | |||||
51656 | 59655 | 59749 | 51676 | Noted 02/06/86 - on 15.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51657 + 59672 + 59734 + 518634 | |||||
51656 | 59655 | 59749 | 51676 | Noted 21/06/1986 - at Marylebone5 | |||||
51656 | 59655 | 59749 | 51676 | Noted 24/06/86 - on 20.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone4 | |||||
51656 | 59655 | 59749 | 51676 | Noted 07/07/86 - on 18.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone with 51657 + 59672 + 59738 + 518634 | |||||
51656 | 59671 | 59736 | 51875 | Noted 22/12/1986 - at Marylebone5 | |||||
51656 | 54499 | Noted circa 09/19873 | |||||||
51656 | 54499 | Noted 24/10/1987 - Chiltern Tours Special Train from Aylesbury to Folkestone Harbour 54500-51652 + 54499-51656 | |||||||
51656 | 54499 | Noted 24/12/19873 | |||||||
51656 | 54499 | Noted circa 01/19883 | |||||||
51896 | 59671 | 59740 | 51656 | Noted circa 07/19883 | |||||
51654 | 51656 | Noted circa 01/19923 | |||||||
51654 | 51656 | Listed at - 24/02/92 - NSE NGBX pool | |||||||
L752 | 51654 | 51656 | Listed at - 12/08/92 | ||||||
L752 | 51654 | 51656 | Listed at BY - November 1992 - Sector NGBX |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Phil Shatford
5: Robert Chilton
51656 + 59669 + 59725 + 51893 at Quainton Road on the Quaintonian shuttle, 4/5/81. Robert Frise.
Class 115 with 51656 leading at West Ruislip on 20/11/88. Ian Buck.
Class 115 car 51656 at West Ruislip 20th November 1988. Ian Buck.
A Class 115 DMBS (51656) / Class 108 DTC set in Amersham in 1990. Image by Tony Martens. John Law Collection.
A Class 115 / 108 hybrid set formed of 51656 + 54491 in Aylesbury (Town) station, circa May 1990. Stuart Mackay Collection.
070392 51656+51654 at Gospel Oak, working Barking services Jason Hall.
Vehicle 51656 was delivered new to Cricklewood East Depot in April 1960 but had spells at Trafford Park and Allerton Depots before moving back south to Marylebone in June 1961 where it stayed until the depot closed and units were moved to Bletchley in 1988. It was transferred on paper from Bletchley to Old Oak on 21/1/92 but the move never took place and it remained allocated to Bletchley for a few more months before being withdrawn on 17/12/92. Like many of its type it ended up dragged to South Wales after being sold to Gwent Demolition Ltd for disposal. The company used sidings in the Margam Yard complex to break up many former Network SouthEast multiple units. It arrived on 6/4/93 and after being torched by vandals lingered a further two years before the inevitable when it was finally cut up on 30/6/95. It is seen here on 23 September 1994. Adrian Nicholls.
The Quaintonian with 51893 - 59725 - 59669 and 51656 on 4/5/81 at Quainton Road. Robert Frise.
A Class 108 / 115 hybrid set formed of 54491 + 51656 in Aylesbury (Town) station, circa May 1990. Stuart Mackay Collection.