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<- 51969 | 51970 | 51971 ->

Vehicle 51970

Class 124

BR Diagram 579

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: 30604
Diagram: 579

Allocations

24/08/60 New to 55H (Neville Hill)
4w/e 25/03/67 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73Depot code changeBG
p/e 30/11/80 Withdrawn

Notes

25/06/82 - Condemned vehicles 50591, 51970/7 and 59244 hauled from Doncaster Hexthorpe Yard (08:00) to Whittlesea (booked as 12:40) as 8X32. 51972 was also on the movement sheet but scored out.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51955 51970 59767 59776 51971 51956 As delivered to 55H - 24th August 1960
51956 51970 59771 59776 51971 51951 Noted 07/03/1969 - Leeds1
51963 51970 59765 51976 51960 Noted 09/05/1969 - Leeds, 16.04 service to Hull1
51959 51970 59765 51976 51967 Noted 23/05/1969 - Leeds1
51959 51970 59767 59776 51980 51957 Noted 04/10/1969 - Leeds1
51967 51970 59767 59776 51980 51965 Noted 17/10/1969 - Leeds, 13.00 service from Liverpool1
51956 51981 59769 59778 51970 51954 Noted 10/12/1969 - Leeds, on 13.50 Hull to Liverpool1
51958 51970 59771 51983 51961 Noted 07/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2
51963 51970 59771 51983 51956 Noted 21/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2
51963 51970 59771 59777 51968 51956 Noted 29/04/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2
51953 51970 59771 59777 51976 51951 Noted 23/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2
51957 51975 59772 51970 51961 Noted 27/06/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2
51960 51976 59767 59776 51970 51955 Noted 18/12/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2
51953 51970 59778 59769 51983 51961 Noted 19/04/71 - in Leeds City3
51959 51968 59777 59767 51970 51966 Noted 06/08/1974 - at Manchester Victoria4
51962 51968 59777 59767 51970 51966 Noted 29/08/1974 - at Liverpool Lime Street4
51958 51970 59765 59776 51982 51964 Noted 04/09/74 - in Liverpool Lime Street3
51962 51979 59767 51970 51965 Noted 25/06/77 - on 1M76 1540 Hull-Liverpool
51967 51968 59766 51970 51952 Noted 17/06/1978 - Leeds5
52092 51970 59819 52103 Noted 15/09/19792
52088 51970 59766 51961 Noted 10/11/19792
52096 59820 51970 52090 Noted 06/04/19802
52096 59820 51970 52090 Noted 08/04/19802
52096 59820 51970 52090 Noted 09/04/19802
52103 59773 51970 51958 Noted 11/04/19802
51967 59773 51970 51953 Noted 28/06/19802
52092 59821 51970 51966 Noted 19/07/19802
52092 51970 59821 51966 Noted 20/07/1980 - at Hull Paragon 5

Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Martin Lumley

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: August 1976

A Trans-Pennine DMU set that included 51962, 59766, 51970, 51957 pauses at Huddersfield on a Hull - Liverpool working in August 1976. John Crooks.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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