Vehicle 51979
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
| 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 | |
| 18/10/81 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Notes
30/04/76 - 50630, 51816, 51979, 56187, 52079 noted on Doncaster Works
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 | |||
| 51955 | 51979 | 59773 | 51978 | 51953 | Noted 09/05/1969 - Leeds, on 18.08 service to Hull1 | ||||
| 51955 | 51979 | 59773 | 51983 | 51953 | Noted 16/05/1969 - Leeds, on 16.00 Liverpool to Hull service1 | ||||
| 51963 | 51979 | 59773 | 51983 | 51953 | Noted 19/05/1969 - Leeds, on 07.45 Liverpool to Hull service1 | ||||
| 51956 | 51979 | 59773 | 51983 | 51961 | Noted 23/05/1969 - Leeds1 | ||||
| 51956 | 51979 | 59776 | 59767 | 51984 | 51951 | Noted 07/06/1969 - Leeds1 | |||
| 51956 | 51979 | 59776 | 59773 | 51977 | 51953 | Noted 11/06/1969 - Leeds, on 15.45 to Liverpool1 | |||
| 51966 | 51979 | 59766 | 51976 | 51960 | Noted 17/10/1969 - Leeds, on 14.00 Liverpool to Hull1 | ||||
| 51955 | 51975 | 59768 | 59781 | 51979 | 51966 | Noted 12/12/1969 - Leeds, on 13.00 from Liverpool1 | |||
| 51951 | 51979 | 59773 | 51975 | 51952 | Noted 21/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | ||||
| 51961 | 51972 | 59772 | 59778 | 51979 | 51951 | Noted 14/03/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51951 | 51972 | 59778 | 59769 | 51979 | 50559 | Noted 11/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51955 | 51979 | 59769 | 59778 | 51973 | 51957 | Noted 23/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51963 | 51979 | 59777 | 59771 | 51975 | 51958 | Noted 27/10/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51966 | 51973 | 59771 | 59777 | 51979 | 51967 | Noted 06/11/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51963 | 51972 | 59772 | 59778 | 51979 | 51956 | Noted 15/01/1972 - York, on 15.07 service to Manchester Victoria1 | |||
| 51953 | 51980 | 59767 | 59777 | 51979 | 51964 | Noted 31/10/1972 - at Manchester Victoria3 | |||
| 51952 | 51976 | 59765 | 51979 | 51955 | Noted 13/04/73 - on 1450 Manchester Victoria - York | ||||
| 51955 | 51979 | 59769 | 51967 | Noted 29/08/74 - on Hull Botanic Gardens depot4 | |||||
| 51954 | 51973 | 59773 | 51979 | 51959 | Noted 10/01/76 - at Brough5 | ||||
| 51962 | 51979 | 59767 | 51970 | 51965 | Noted 25/06/77 - on 1M76 1540 Hull-Liverpool | ||||
| 52088 | 59821 | 51979 | 51955 | Noted 20/05/1979 - Longsight6 | |||||
| 51979 | 59237 | 59769 | 59771 | 59820 | Noted 07/01/1980 - at Hull Paragon, on a Bridlington service hauled by 37135 6 | ||||
| 51965 | 59765 | 51979 | 51955 | Noted 19/07/19802 | |||||
| 51956 | 51979 | 59238 | 51960 | Noted 06/09/1980 - at Sheffield Midland 6 | |||||
| 52100 | 51979 | 59771 | 51952 | Noted 01/11/19802 | |||||
| 51963 | 59825 | 51979 | 52095 | Noted 02/01/19812 | |||||
| 51952 | 51979 | 59771 | 52100 | Noted 24/05/1981 - Seen at Sheffield2 |
Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Leonard Rogers
6: Martin Lumley
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