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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15/04/84	Withdrawn from	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)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

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.

4th June 1983

A four-car Swindon DMU with a two-car Class 101 attached in Selby station on 4 June 1983. Closest appears to be E51961. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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.

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