Vehicle 51972
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
| 09/08/60 | New to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 25/03/67 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
| 31/08/80 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | - fire damage |
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:
| 51953 | 51972 | 59766 | 59775 | 51973 | 51954 | As delivered to 55H - 9th August 1960 | |||
| 51952 | 51968 | 59773 | 51972 | 51957 | Noted 31/12/69 - in Leeds City1 | ||||
| 51956 | 51972 | 59767 | 59775 | 51960 | Noted 30/07/73 - on 1610 Liverpool-Hull | ||||
| 51951 | 51984 | 59775 | 59770 | 51972 | 51956 | Noted 15/09/75 - at Brough2 | |||
| 51952 | 51972 | 59771 | 51969 | 51965 | Noted 29/11/1975 - at York 3 | ||||
| 51966 | 51975 | 59770 | 51972 | 51957 | Noted 10/06/19784 | ||||
| 51957 | 51972 | 59770 | 51975 | 51966 | Noted 18/06/19784 | ||||
| 52092 | 51972 | 52103 | Noted 30/05/19794 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 18th April 1962
E51956, 51973, 59776, 59767, 51972 and 51955 approaching Neville Hill East with a Hull to Liverpool Lime Street train 18th April 1962. Keith Long.