Vehicle 51886
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: 30598
Diagram: 598
Allocations
| 01/10/60 | New to | Chaddesden | - stabled pending allocation |
| 4w/e 31/12/60 | On loan to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 2w/e 08/04/61 | Stored | Marylebone | - ex-loan |
| 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 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) NMYX | |
| 27/08/92 | Withdrawn from | OO (Old Oak Common) NMYX |
Modifications
circa Mar-87 - Gangway(s) fitted
Disposal
Preserved - more details.
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51885 | 59737 | 59757 | 51886 | As delivered to Chaddesden sidings - 1st October 1960 - stabled pending allocation | |||||
| 51885 | 59737 | 59757 | 51886 | Transfer to 30A - 4w/e 31/12/60 - on loan from LMR | |||||
| 51885 | 59737 | 59757 | 51886 | Transfer to Marylebone - 2w/e 08/04/61 - ex-loan | |||||
| 51886 | 59732 | 59764 | 51899 | Noted 19/11/70 - at Marylebone1 | |||||
| 51880 | 59672 | 59740 | 51886 | Noted 14/02/72 - on Marylebone depot2 | |||||
| 51886 | 59738 | 59668 | 51894 | Noted 13/01/79 - Noted 13/01/79 - on emergency special from Marylebone to High Wycombe with 51674-59733-59676-51891 to connect with delayed ECS for railtour to Merseyside. Also noted as 51661-59738-59668-51676.3 | |||||
| 51678 | 59753 | 59649 | 51886 | Noted 27/08/79 - on the Quaintonian shuttle | |||||
| 51675 | 59670 | 59656 | 51886 | Noted 15/05/81 - at Aylesbury2 | |||||
| 51861 | 59674 | 59651 | 51886 | Noted circa 08/19814 | |||||
| 51651 | 59661 | 59745 | 51886 | Noted circa 06/19824 | |||||
| 51655 | 59734 | 59763 | 51886 | Noted circa 09/19824 | |||||
| 51886 | 59663 | 59758 | 51894 | Noted circa 10/19834 | |||||
| 51886 | 59736 | 59669 | 51873 | Noted circa 04/19844 | |||||
| 51886 | 59728 | 59762 | 51887 | Noted 31/07/85 - on Aylesbury - Marylebone service | |||||
| 51886 | 59731 | 59669 | 51651 | Noted circa 10/19854 | |||||
| 51669 | 59658 | 59753 | 51886 | Noted 28/12/1985 - at Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51664 | 59726 | 59755 | 51886 | Noted 22/12/1986 - at Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51886 | 59759 | 51896 | Noted circa 09/19874 | ||||||
| 51886 | 59759 | 51896 | Noted 06/10/19874 | ||||||
| 51896 | 59652 | 59759 | 51886 | Noted 18/11/19874 | |||||
| 51896 | 59652 | 59759 | 51886 | Noted 17/12/19874 | |||||
| 51663 | 59660 | 59752 | 51886 | Noted 17/09/88 - on 09.42 Banbury - Marylebone | |||||
| 51663 | 59763 | 59737 | 51886 | Noted circa 01/19894 | |||||
| 51886 | 59733 | 59764 | 51668 | Noted circa 03/19894 | |||||
| 51886 | 59667 | 59659 | 51896 | Noted 05/05/90 - on services to Marylebone6 | |||||
| 51879 | 59736 | 59665 | 51886 | Noted 13/06/90 - on services to Marylebone6 | |||||
| 51886 | 59752 | 59655 | 51666 | Noted circa 07/19904 | |||||
| 51658 | 59657 | 59667 | 51886 | Noted 24/02/92 | |||||
| 51659 | 59761 | 51886 | Noted 07/08/92 - on 12:47 Paddington - Twyford |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Phil Shatford
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton
6: Aaron Calder
Images:
27th August 1979
At Aylesbury on 27/8/79 working The Quaintonian shuttle to Quainton Road are 51886 - 59649 - 59753 - 51678. Robert Frise.
27th August 1979
51886 - 59649 - 59753 - 51678 at Quainton Road while working The Quaintonian shuttle, 27/8/79. Robert Frise.
13th March 1982
Class 115 DMBS M51866 at the stops in Marylebone with a High Wycombe service on 13 March 1982. Stuart Mackay Collection.
May 1985
M51886 leads a Class 115 set on a High Wycombe service heading away from Sudbury and Harrow Road Station in May 1985. Stuart Mackay Collection.
31st July 1985
A countryside walk from Beaconsfield to Amersham took me over the Aylesbury to London line via a footbridge at Little Missenden on the 31st July 1985. There I photographed Class 115 51886 (leading) + 59728 + 59762 + 51887 on a service for Marylebone. It is pictured approaching from the west. S Gaskell.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 31st July 1985
Heading away beneath Keepers Lane bridge over the Aylesbury to London line at Little Missenden is Class 115 set 51887 (rear, closest) + 59762 + 59728 + 51886 on a service for Marylebone. Taken during a countryside walk from Beaconsfield to Amersham on the 31st July 1985. S Gaskell.
Date: 17th September 1988
Until the Class 165 dmus came along in 1990 services out of Marylebone to Aylesbury and Banbury were dominated by the Class 115 dmus allocated to Marylebone. This photo shows a unit (made up of 51663 + 59660 + 59752 + 51886) leaving Banbury, and passing the now-demolished Banbury South signalbox, on the 09.42 to Marylebone on 17 September 1988. Lewis Bevan.
Date: 23rd April 1989
The 11.39 to Marylebone departs from Aylesbury on 23 April 1989. The Class 115 set was recorded as 51886 + 59737 + 59763 + 51893 (order of power cars uncertain), the 108/115 at the front was 54274 + 51676. Lewis Bevan.
Date: 7th August 1992
When the 115s were withdrawn from Chiltern a few were used on Thames 117 turns for a short time, such as this image of 51659 with 59761 and 51886 on the 12:47 Paddington - Twyford, seen at Hayes on 7/8/92. Gazza Prescott.