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| 31/08/80 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | - fire damage |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 | |||
| 51961 | 51968 | 59768 | 51972 | 51962 | Noted 09/05/1969 - Leeds, working 15.40 Hull to Liverpool service.1 | ||||
| 51962 | 51980 | 59777 | 59768 | 51972 | 51954 | Noted 16/05/1969 - Leeds, on 15.45 Leeds to Liverpool service1 | |||
| 51960 | 51972 | 59768 | 59777 | 51980 | 51955 | Noted 19/05/1969 - Leeds, on 09.10 Hull to Liverpool service1 | |||
| 51955 | 51972 | 59776 | 59767 | 51984 | 51951 | Noted 23/05/1969 - Leeds, having arrived on 13.00 service from Liverpool1 | |||
| 51955 | 51972 | 59776 | 59767 | 51984 | 51951 | Noted 31/05/1969 - Leeds, on 13.00 from Liverpool with 50372-561421 | |||
| 51962 | 51972 | 59772 | 51973 | 51963 | Noted 17/10/1969 - Leeds, on 15.40 Hull to Liverpool1 | ||||
| 51952 | 51968 | 59773 | 51972 | 51957 | Noted 31/12/69 - in Leeds City2 | ||||
| 51965 | 51972 | 59769 | 59778 | 51980 | 51954 | Noted 21/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||
| 51961 | 51972 | 59772 | 59778 | 51979 | 51951 | Noted 14/03/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||
| 51957 | 51972 | 59779 | 59769 | 51984 | 51959 | Noted 29/04/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||
| 51951 | 51972 | 59778 | 59769 | 51979 | 50559 | Noted 11/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||
| 51960 | 51972 | 59765 | 51969 | 51966 | Noted 27/06/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||
| 51967 | 51972 | 59777 | 51968 | 51958 | Noted 11/12/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||
| 51964 | 51972 | 59770 | 51981 | 51957 | Noted 18/12/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | ||||
| 51956 | 51972 | 59767 | 59775 | 51960 | Noted 30/07/73 - on 1610 Liverpool-Hull | ||||
| 51951 | 51984 | 59775 | 59770 | 51972 | 51956 | Noted 15/09/75 - at Brough4 | |||
| 51952 | 51972 | 59771 | 51969 | 51965 | Noted 29/11/1975 - at York 5 | ||||
| 51966 | 51975 | 59770 | 51972 | 51957 | Noted 10/06/19783 | ||||
| 51957 | 51972 | 59770 | 51975 | 51966 | Noted 18/06/19783 | ||||
| 52092 | 51972 | 52103 | Noted 30/05/19793 |
Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Leonard Rogers
5: Peter Wallwork
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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.