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Vehicle 51667

Class 115

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

Allocations

3w/e 02/07/60	New to	55H (Neville Hill)	- on loan
4w/e 01/10/60	On loan to	30A (Stratford)
4w/e 01/04/61	Ex-loan back to	Marylebone
4w/e 01/07/61	Transferred to	14F (Marylebone)
Sep-63	Depot code change	1D
May-73	Depot code change	ME
Oct-88	Transferred to	BY (Bletchley)
23/12/91	Withdrawn from	BY (Bletchley) NXXZ

Modifications

Jan-86 - AWS fitted - from KD

Refurbished

At Derby Works dated 24/06/1983 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

51667	59657	59672	51668	As delivered to 55H - 3w/e 02/07/60 - on loan from LMR
51667	59657	59672	51668	Transfer to 30A - 4w/e 01/10/60
51667	59657	59672	51668	Transfer to LMR - 4w/e 01/04/61
51659	59763	59743	51667	Noted 24/10/71 - in Marylebone¹
51659	59763	59743	51667	Noted 25/10/1971 - at Denham²
51667	59650	59671	51865	Noted 10/08/1974 - at Banbury³
51667	59752	59653	51676	Noted 25/08/80 - at Aylesbury
51661	59763	59734	51667	Noted circa 02/1982⁴
51667	59667	59651	51653	Noted circa 08/1982⁴
51896	59744	59746	51667	Noted circa 10/1983⁴
51667	59662	59755	51890	Noted circa 11/1984⁴
51667	59660	59764	51870	Noted 04/09/85 - on 09.38 Marylebone – Banbury and 12.20 Banbury – Marylebone⁵
51667	59660	59764	51870	Noted 19/09/85 - on 09.38 Marylebone – Banbury and 12.20 Banbury – Marylebone⁵
51667	59660	59747	51870	Noted circa 10/1985⁴
51656	59655	59749	51667	Noted 17/03/86 - on 12.38 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 14.01 High Wycombe – Marylebone⁵
51656	59655	59749	51667	Noted 25/03/86 - on 17.40 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51658 + 59652 + 59764 + 51880⁵
51653	59650	59673	51667	Noted 26/04/86 - on 15.38 Marylebone – Banbury and 18.25 Banbury – Marylebone⁵
51653	59650	59673	51667	Noted 07/05/86 - on 17.00 Marylebone – Aylesbury, 18.10 Aylesbury – Marylebone, 19.50 Marylebone – Princes Risborough and 21.58 Princes Risborough – Marylebone⁵
51660	59650	59673	51667	Noted 18/05/86 - on 18.40 Marylebone – Banbury, 20.44 Banbury – Marylebone, 23.10 Marylebone – Bicester and (next day) 00.38 Bicester – Marylebone ECS⁵
51660	59650	59673	51667	Noted 20/05/86 - on 17.40 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 19.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone both with 51658 + 59652 + 59764 + 51873⁵
51660	59650	59673	51667	Noted 01/06/86 - on 07.40 Marylebone – Bicester, 09.10 Bicester – Marylebone, 11.40 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 13.35 High Wycombe - Marylebone⁵
51660	59650	59673	51667	Noted 05/06/86 - on 19.00 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 20.43 High Wycombe – Marylebone⁵
51660	59650	59673	51667	Noted 10/06/86 - on 17.40 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51680 + 59651 + 59676 + 51896⁵
51667	59650	59673	51890	Noted 19/06/86 - on afternoon Marylebone – High Wycombe services⁵
51667	59650	59673	51890	Noted 24/06/86 - on 13.33 Marylebone – Banbury, 16.48 Banbury – Marylebone and 18.45 Marylebone – Aylesbury⁵
51667	59650	59673	51890	Noted 26/06/86 - on 20.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone⁵
51667	59650	59673	51862	Noted 09/07/86 - on 16.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 17.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone⁵
51667	59650	59673	51862	Noted 10/07/86 - on 12.38 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 14.40 High Wycombe - Marylebone⁵
51667	59673	51887		Noted 3rd January 1987
51667	59739	59750	51666	Noted 28/03/1987 - Hertfordshire Railtours The Mickleover Hypothesis 51667-59739-59750-51666 + 51889-59763-59727-51659
51667	59654	59665	51874	Noted 16/09/1987⁴
51667	59654	59665	51874	Noted 06/10/1987⁴
51667	59654	59665	51874	Noted 21/12/1987⁴
51667	59654	59665	51900	Noted circa 02/1988⁴
51667	59654	59665	51900	Noted 15th April 1988
51666	59749	59662	51667	Noted circa 01/1989⁴
51667	59732	59728	51679	Noted 30/03/90 - on services from Marylebone with 51878 + 59735 + 51571⁶
51667	59678	59733	51679	Noted circa 05/1990⁴

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Phil Shatford
6: Aaron Calder

Images:

31st December 1975

An off-duty oval buffer Class 115 diesel multiple unit (which appears to be M51667) is stabled under Rossmore Road overbridge on one of the lines alongside the turntable at the Great Central Railway terminus of London Marylebone on 31st December 1975. Meanwhile another train is signaled away from Platform 5, the white painted bridge giving a backboard to sight the signal arms against. Pete LG99.

14th December 1978

A Class 115 departs from Amersham station with a Marylebone - Aylesbury service on 14 December 1978. Tony Watson.

25th August 1980

At Aylesbury is 51667 + 59752 (and unseen behind 59653 + 51676) on the 25th August 1980. Robert Frise.

31st March 1986

The starter signals at the south end of Aylesbury station on 31 March 1986, and BR Derby Class 115 DMBS 51667 awaits the road. Dave Warby.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 15th January 1985

When snowfall came to London in January 1985, presenting unusual photographic opportunities, I couldn't resist capturing Marylebone station a few years before modernisation took place. Class 115 DMU (power cars 51667 and 51674) leaves a smoke trail as it departs and passes beneath Rossmore Road forming an Aylesbury service on 15 January 1985. The Marylebone class 115 sets, which were later transferred to Bletchley but remained on Chiltern Line duties, were declared surplus after the introduction of Class 165s from 1991 onwards and the final Class 115 working out of Marylebone was in July 1992. Gordon Edgar.

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