Vehicle 51961
Class 124
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
Allocations
| 25/10/60 | New to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 25/03/67 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
| 15/04/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Modifications
circa May-81 - Headlamp fitted
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51961 | 51978 | 59770 | 59779 | 51979 | 51962 | As delivered to 55H - 25th October 1960 | |||
| 51961 | 51968 | 51971 | 59766 | 59775 | 59768 | 51980 | 51967 | Noted 30/08/1964 - enhanced formation for a BR / RERPS Cumbrian Scenic tour | |
| 51953 | 51970 | 59778 | 59769 | 51983 | 51961 | Noted 19/04/71 - in Leeds City1 | |||
| 51961 | 51981 | 59773 | 59775 | 51980 | 51963 | Noted 29/08/74 - on Hull Botanic Gardens depot1 | |||
| 50560 | 51959 | 59771 | 59777 | 51982 | 51961 | Noted 16/09/75 - at Hull2 | |||
| 51955 | 51981 | 59765 | 51968 | 51961 | Noted 28/02/76 - at York1 | ||||
| 51957 | 51984 | 59766 | 51982 | 51961 | Noted 19/03/19773 | ||||
| 51961 | 51978 | 59768 | 51977 | 51964 | Noted 09/06/19773 | ||||
| 51953 | 51973 | 51976 | 59769 | 51961 | Noted 17/08/78 - on 11:45 Hull - Liverpool4 | ||||
| 51952 | 59768 | 51984 | 51961 | Noted 01/09/19793 | |||||
| 51961 | 51982 | 59769 | 51967 | Noted 21/09/19793 | |||||
| 52088 | 51970 | 59766 | 51961 | Noted 10/11/19793 | |||||
| 51961 | 51981 | 59237 | 51964 | Noted 27/10/19803 | |||||
| 51961 | 59768 | 51982 | 52099 | Noted 05/05/1981 - at Hull was to form 14:50 to Leeds but was failed before departure, replaced by 52090, 59238, 59821 and 521045 | |||||
| 51962 | 59836 | 59823 | 51961 | Noted circa 04/19823 | |||||
| 51961 | 59770 | 59825 | 52090 | Noted circa 10/19823 | |||||
| 51961 | 59766 | 59826 | 52091 | Noted circa 19833 | |||||
| 51954 | 59837 | 59235 | 51961 | Noted circa 02/19833 | |||||
| 51960 | 59841 | 59769 | 51961 | Noted circa 03/19833 | |||||
| 51961 | 59766 | 59826 | 52091 | Noted circa 07/19833 | |||||
| 51961 | 59818 | 59770 | 52089 | Noted circa 09/19833 | |||||
| 51961 | 59823 | 59235 | 52094 | Noted 16/11/1983 - at Sheffield3 | |||||
| 51961 | 59834 | 59827 | 52097 | Noted 03/01/1984 - at Manchester Picc3 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Phil Shatford
5: Peter Wallwork
Images:
9th January 1977
A Swindon Trans-Pennine Class 124 departing Hull station on 09/01/1977 with car E51961 nearest the camera. To the right can be seen Metro-Cammell Mk1 Pullman stock in the reverse grey & blue livery they carried in later years. Graeme Phillips Collection.
July 1978
A Swindon DMU in Manchester (Victoria) on a Liverpool (Lime St) - Leeds (City) - Hull (Paragon) service, 07/78. The closest car - with the headlamp, one wiper and no electrification flash is likely E51961. Hugh Llewelyn.
July 1978
A Swindon DMU in Manchester (Victoria) on a Liverpool (Lime St) - Leeds (City) - Hull (Paragon) service, 07/78. The closest car - with the headlamp, one wiper and no electrification flash is likely E51961. Hugh Llewelyn.
1979
A Trans-Pennine set at York station in 1979 on the 11:00 am Sundays only Hull to Leeds via York service. The leading power car with the headlight, single wiper and angled electrification flash suggests it is E51961. Mike Hudson.
20th March 1979
E51961 leads a Trans-Pennins set into Huddersfield station on the 20th March 1979. Malcolm Clements.
August 1982
BR (Swindon) "Trans Pennine" Class 124 E51961 departing Manchester (Piccadilly) on a service to Stalybridge - Huddersfield - Leeds (City), 08/82. Hugh Llewelyn.
August 1982
BR (Swindon) "Trans Pennine" Class 124 E51961 at Manchester (Piccadilly) awaiting to depart on a service to Stalybridge - Huddersfield - Leeds (City), 08/82. A comment by "45125" on this image on flickr notes "The "plated" head code panel is actually plywood and the lamp fittings came from withdrawn Birminghams.". Hugh Llewelyn.
August 1982
A Hybrid BR (Swindon) Trans Pennine/Inter City Class 124/123 4-car dmu led by E51961 departs Manchester (Piccadilly) on a Leeds (City) service, 08/82. Hugh Llewelyn.
August 1982
A Hybrid BR (Swindon) Trans Pennine/Inter City Class 124/123 4-car dmu with E51961 closest in Manchester (Piccadilly) on a Leeds (City) service, 08/82. Hugh Llewelyn.
9th March 1983
Class 124 Trans-Pennine 4-car unit led by DMC E51961 pauses at Doncaster, Sunday 9th March 1983 Iain Reid.
9th March 1983
One of the Swindon-built Trans-Pennine units stands at Doncaster. Comparing this with image 5272 suggests this taken on Sunday 9th March 1983 and has 51961 at the front. Stuart Pearce.
20th August 1983
The semaphores are still in operation at Bamford as this Trans-Pennine unit led by E51961 makes its way through the Hope Valley en route to Manchester Piccadilly in the summer of 1983. Andrew Walker.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: circa 1982
Two Trans-Pennine DMUs in Doncaster station at 7.30pm one evening, with a queue of people waiting to board the set in platform 4. There were no details with this transparency. The condition of the DMC on the left - with the missing white dots and the offset lamp bracket on the right - matches E51958 circa 1982. The DMC on the right with the plated headcode and headlamp matches E51961 at this time. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 2nd September 1983
Set number: 52
E51952 has a freshly painted front end when seen at Brough on the rear of a Trans-Pennine service to Hull on 2nd September 1983. The repainting had been done at BG after a minor bump. The window rubbers, normally left black, were painted as they had a fair amount of paint on them already. The unit has the number "52" hand-painted on the front, 51961 and 51964 also had numbers painted on the front end. It has had red bulbs installed in the old headcode panel, presumably to prevent damage to the nicely painted lamp-brackets! Syd Young.