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Vehicle 51929

Class 108

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30601
Diagram: 634

Allocations

10/09/60	New to	26A (Newton Heath)
Nov-60	Transferred to	8H (Allerton)
Sep-63	Depot code change	8J
06/05/73	Depot code change	AN
Feb-82	Transferred to	LO (Longsight)
09/12/84	Withdrawn from	LO (Longsight)

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 17/12/1976 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by BR, Derby C&W Works

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

51929	52044	As delivered to 26A - 10th September 1960
51929	52041	Noted 09/08/67 - at Hull¹
51929	52039	Noted 07/06/72 - at Hall Road on a Liverpool Lime Street - Southport via Edge Hill working¹
51929	51572	Noted 27/02/76 - in Liverpool Lime Street¹
51929	52042	Noted 23/06/1977 - 19.22 Wigan NW to Lime Street with 51943-52056 and 51916-56277.²
51929	52042	Noted 30/09/1977 - 07.57 Lime Street - Wigan NW with 50924-51561²
51929	52037	Noted 31/10/80 - on Longsight depot
51929	52038	Noted circa 08/1981²
51929	52041	Noted circa 10/1982²
51929	52041	Noted circa 04/1983²

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn

Images:

circa January 1986

A Class 108 DMBS with smashed cab windows - probably 51929, and a Class 100 DTC with white painted solebar - probably 56110. Derby C&W Works, slide process date is January 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.

15th March 1986

Derby Litchurch Lane on the 15th March 1986. A Class 108 DMBS with smashed cab windows - probably 51929, and a Class 100 DTC with white painted solebar - probably 56110. Ian Francis.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 1977

A Class 108 power twin formed of M52042 + M51929 arrives into Liverpool Lime Street in 1977. Brian Daniels.

Date: 19th August 1980

Class 108s at Wigan North Western, 19/8/80. The photographer noted that the vehicles include M51929 + M52041. Robert Frise.

Date: 19th August 1980

A Class 108 departs from Platform 3 of Wigan North Western on 19/8/80. Although unsure of what vehicle is what, the photographer notes that the vehicles there at the time included M51929 + M52041. Robert Frise.

Date: 7th May 1983

Set number: L576

Class 119 sets L576 and L578 have either come out of or are about to enter the empty siding on the right. They are at Spalding on a Flower Parade special from West Ruislip on 7 May 1983. Other details from the July 1983 issue of The Railway Observer (p270): in the sidings on the far left are 53669 + 59256 + 53718 / 50331 + 59125 + 50308 / 53738 + 59262 + 53693 which ran from Burton-on-Trent / Leicester. On the right are 54230 + 53947 / 51929 + 52041 / 78601 + 78851 which ran from Manchester Piccadilly. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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