Vehicle 51970
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: 30604
Diagram: 579
Allocations
| 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 | |
| p/e 30/11/80 | Withdrawn |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 | |||
| 51953 | 51970 | 59778 | 59769 | 51983 | 51961 | Noted 19/04/71 - in Leeds City1 | |||
| 51959 | 51968 | 59777 | 59767 | 51970 | 51966 | Noted 06/08/1974 - at Manchester Victoria2 | |||
| 51962 | 51968 | 59777 | 59767 | 51970 | 51966 | Noted 29/08/1974 - at Liverpool Lime Street2 | |||
| 51958 | 51970 | 59765 | 59776 | 51992 | 51964 | Noted 04/09/74 - in Liverpool Lime Street1 | |||
| 51962 | 51979 | 59767 | 51970 | 51965 | Noted 25/06/77 - on 1M76 1540 Hull-Liverpool | ||||
| 52092 | 51970 | 59819 | 52103 | Noted 15/09/19793 | |||||
| 52088 | 51970 | 59766 | 51961 | Noted 10/11/19793 | |||||
| 52096 | 59820 | 51970 | 52090 | Noted 06/04/19803 | |||||
| 52096 | 59820 | 51970 | 52090 | Noted 08/04/19803 | |||||
| 52096 | 59820 | 51970 | 52090 | Noted 09/04/19803 | |||||
| 52103 | 59773 | 51970 | 51958 | Noted 11/04/19803 | |||||
| 51967 | 59773 | 51970 | 51953 | Noted 28/06/19803 | |||||
| 52092 | 59821 | 51970 | 51966 | Noted 19/07/19803 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Eddie Knorn
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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.