Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30603
Diagram: 577
24/08/60 | New to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
4w/e 25/03/67 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
27/05/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
51955 | 51970 | 59767 | 59776 | 51971 | 51956 | As delivered to 55H - 24th August 1960 | |||
51956 | 51978 | 59768 | 51982 | 51958 | Noted 16/04/73 - in Manchester Victoria1 | ||||
51956 | 51972 | 59767 | 59775 | 51960 | Noted 30/07/73 - on 1610 Liverpool-Hull | ||||
51955 | 51981 | 59773 | 51971 | 51956 | Noted 11/1974 - at Leeds 2 | ||||
51956 | 51978 | 59770 | 59778 | 51973 | 51963 | Noted 05/01/75 - on Botanic Gardens depot1 | |||
51956 | 51978 | 59772 | 51980 | 51966 | Noted 07/01/75 - at York1 | ||||
51951 | 51984 | 59775 | 59770 | 51972 | 51956 | Noted 15/09/75 - at Brough3 | |||
52092 | 59771 | 51956 | Noted 11/04/19804 | ||||||
51956 | 51976 | 59239 | 51954 | Noted 01/11/19804 | |||||
51956 | 51976 | 59239 | 51954 | Noted 01/11/19804 | |||||
51956 | 59772 | 51982 | 52104 | Noted 23/03/1981 - Seen at Sheffield4 | |||||
51956 | 59838 | 59236 | 51952 | Noted circa 10/19824 | |||||
52092 | 59768 | 59824 | 51956 | Noted circa 19834 | |||||
52090 | 59826 | 59238 | 51956 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||
51955 | 59839 | 59771 | 51956 | Noted circa 09/19834 | |||||
51951 | 59838 | 59823 | 51956 | Noted circa 05/19844 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Eddie Knorn
E51956, 51973, 59776, 59767, 51972 and 51955 approaching Neville Hill East with a Hull to Liverpool Lime Street train 18th April 1962. Keith Long.
A Class 124 Trans-Pennine DMU led by DMC E51956 enters York station on 10 Aug 1974. Paul James.
Class 124 Trans-Pennine unit with E51956 closest at Manchester Victoria, 23 May 1980. Nigel Menzies.
Class 124 E51956 beside Class 108 E50610 at Leeds on June 25, 1982. John Carter.
A Swindon-built DMU departing from Doncaster on 15 December 1982, the Class 124 DMC leading appears to be E51956. Brian Daniels.
A real rarity at Barnsley in January 1983, due to diversions caused by closures on the Hope Valley route. This Trans-Pennine unit was heading for Liverpool and is seen here entering Barnsley station. The four-car Class 124 / Class 123 appears to have E51956 leading, a two-car Met-Camm is attatched to the rear. Andrew Walker.
Sunday engineering work in January 1983 brought some unusual services through Barnsley, including this Liverpool-bound working with a Trans-Pennine unit (E51956 visible), seen passing more conventional motive power (which looks like a Class 114) in the Sheffield platform. Andrew Walker.
Class 124 E51956 at Carnforth on 4 April 1983. Brian Daniels.
Trans-Pennine unit with 51956 leading at Dore (Sheffield) on 22 October 1983. Chris Thorp.
Trans-Pennine DMU nos. 51958, 51978, 59769, 59777, 51983 and (out of picture) 51956 is seen at Manchester Victoria having arrived on the 1250 from Hull (Sundays). Suthen Softy.
A Trans-Pennine DMU in Stalybridge station on 12 September 1977. The vehicles were recorded on the slide as 51956 + 51981 + 59769 + 51975 + 51958. Stuart Mackay Collection.
'Trans-Pennine' class 124 unit (51956 leading) with a two-car Met-Camm on the rear passes the 'new' station at Chapeltown on the Sheffield to Leeds via Barnsley line in February 1983. I can only assume that this was during an engineering works diversion. Paul Braybrook.