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Vehicle 59516

Class 117

BR Diagram 601

Builder: Pressed Steel
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30547
Diagram: 601

Allocations

Aug-60 New to 81C (Southall)
Sep-64 Transferred to 81D (Reading)
May 1973Depot code changeRG
16/05/82 Transferred to BR (Bristol Bath Road)
05/04/86 Transferred to RG (Reading)
10/05/87 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
04/10/87 Transferred to TS (Tyseley)
01/02/93 Transferred to HQ (Headquarters) RFXX
21/01/94 Withdrawn from HQ (Headquarters) RFXX

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 14/02/1979 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Preserved - more details.

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51364 59516 51406 As delivered to WR - August 1960
SHL315 51364 59516 51406 Listed at Southall - circa Dec-60
51364 59516 51406 Transfer to 81D - Sep-64
51364 59516 51406 Noted 17/06/1967 - Great Western Society Cholsey & Wallingford Shuttles. Formation assumed to be as listed, 51406 confirmed in set
418 51364 59516 51406 Listed at Reading - Apr-68 - was R331, gangwayed set
418 51364 59516 51406 Noted 30/05/1970 - 470+452+418 51320-59472-59538-51305 / 51336-59488-51378 / 51406-59516-51364 BR mystery excursion Paddington to Hastings
51364 59516 51406 Noted 22/07/72 - at Royal Oak1
L426 51364 59516 51406 Listed at RG - 01/05/1976
51364 59516 51406 Noted 11/09/76 - in London Paddington2
L426 51364 59516 51406 Noted 05/1977 - Oxford Didcot Reading area3
L426 51364 59516 51406 Listed at RG - 31st December 1977
L426 51364 59516 51406 Noted 28/08/1979 - At Maidenhead 17033
L426 51364 59516 51406 Noted 29/01/1980 - At Oxford Station3
L426 51364 59516 51406 Noted 04/02/1980 - At Didcot3
L426 51364 59516 51406 Listed at RG - 03/03/80
L426 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 04/19824
B426 51364 59516 51406 Listed at BR - 15/12/1982
B426 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 08/19834
B426 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 06/19844
B426 51364 59516 51406 Listed at BR - 01/01/85
B426 51364 59516 51406 Noted 30/10/19854
426 51364 59516 51406 Transfer to RG - 05/04/86 - from BR
L426 51364 59516 51406 Listed at Reading - Summer 1986
C426 51364 59516 51406 Listed at CF - Aug-87
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 10/19874
51364 59516 51406 Transfer to TS - 04/10/87 - from CF
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 01/19884
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted 16/04/1988 - Monmouthshire Railway Society Trelewis Bog Railtour T303+T324
51364 59516 51406 Noted 01/06/88 - on 11:59 Nottingham - Coventry5
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 10/19884
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 03/19894
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted 23/04/1989 - The Institution of Mining Engineers Notts & North Derbyshire Railtour T227+T319+T303
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at TS - 01/09/89
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted 22/10/1989 - The Institution of Mining Engineers South Midland Railtour T222+T303+T312
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at TS - 01/12/89
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at TS - mid May-90
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 05/19914
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at TS - Jul-91
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at TS - Aug-91
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 08/19914
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at TS - Dec-91
51865 59743 59516 53907 Noted 14/12/916
T401 51865 59743 59516 53907 Noted circa 01/19924
T401 51865 59668 59516 53907 Noted circa 02/19924
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at TS - 02/07/92
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted 01/08/92
T303 51364 59516 51406 Noted circa 09/19924
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at - 24/09/92
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at TS - November 1992
51364 59516 51406 Noted 10/12/92 - on 18:39 Birmingham New Street - Lichfield TV7
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at TS - 10/12/92
T303 51364 59516 51406 Listed at HQ - November 1993 - On hire to Channel Tunnel Trackwork Group

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Shayne Lewis
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Martin Baumann
6: Graeme Phillips
7: David Bellamy

Images:

Class 117 DMU at Reading depot

circa 1969

Pressed Steel TCL W59516, probably at Reading depot. The 3" number tells us it was probably taken in the late 1960s. Graham Clark.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 1973

Set number: L418

Class 117 DMU set L418 (presumably 51364 + 59516 + 51406) at Langley with a Slough service sometime in 1973. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 5th September 1981

Set number: L426

Class 117 DMU L426 (presumably 51406 + 59516 + 51364) approaching Paddington, 5th Sept 1981. Paul James.

DMU

Date: circa August 1983

Set number: B426

Class 117 DMU set B426 (presumably 51406 + 59516 + 51364) in Swindon station. The slide process date was August 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 1984

Set number: B426

Class 117 DMU set B426 (W51364 and presumably W59516 + W51406) departs from Frome in early 1984. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: January 1984

Set number: B426

Class 117 set B426 (presumably 51364 59516 51406), eastbound with a train for Birmingham New St at Shucknall between Hereford and Ledbury. January 1984. John Crooks.

DMU

Date: January 1984

Set number: B426

Class 117 set B426, (presumably 51406 59516 51364) eastbound with a train for Birmingham New St at Shucknall between Hereford and Ledbury. January 1984. John Crooks.

DMU

Date: 14th April 1984

Set number: B426

B426 (presumably 51364 + 59516 + 51406) at Frome on 14 April 1984. Image taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 28th May 1987

Set number: 426

Class 117 DMU set 426 (presumably 51364 + 59516 + 51406) leaving Barry station with the 18:05 Barry Island - Coryton service on 28 May 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 28th May 1987

Set number: 426

Class 117 DMU set 426 (presumably 51406 + 59516 + 51364) approaching Barry station with the 14:17 Caerphilly - Barry Island service on 28 May 1987. The set had been transferred from Reading to Canton a couple of weeks earlier and while the L from the set number has been removed the C has not yet been added. It would move on to Tyseley in October. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 12th September 1987

Set number: C426

Class 117 set C426 (presumably formed 51364 + 59516 + 51406) at Westbury station on the 12th September 1987. Andrew J Crowther.

DMU

Date: 28th November 1988

Set number: T303

Class 117 DMU Tyseley set T303 (51406 + 59516 + 51364) stand at Birmingham Snow Hill with the 10.22 for Dorridge on 28-11-88. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

DMU

Date: 23rd April 1989

Set number: T227

53019 leads 54027 as set T227 with T319 (51129, 59756, 51149) and T303 (51406, 59516, 51364) on The Institution of Mining Engineers Notts & North Derbyshire Railtour near Welbeck Colliery on a wet and overcast 23/Apr/1989. Robert Chilton.

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: T303

Class 117 DMU set T303 (presumably 51364 + 59516 + 51406) at Wylde Green, date unknown. Ian Dinmore/railarchive.org.uk.

DMU

Date: 10th February 1990

Set number: T303

37254 waits for me in the Down Relief on empty steel train to Margam, whilst in Hereford station's Platform 3, While a DMU formation with Tyseley Class 117 set T303 (presumably 51364 + 59516 + 51406) closest waits for its time to depart for Birmingham New Street. 10th February 1990. Paul James.

DMU

Date: 26th May 1992

Set number: T303

Class 117 DMU set T303 (presumably 51364 + 59516 + 51406) in Lincoln Central station on 26 May 1992. John Law.

DMU

Date: 26th May 1992

Set number: T303

Class 117 DMU set T303 (51406 and presumably 59516 + 51364) in Lincoln Central station on 26 May 1992. John Law.

DMU

Date: 17th August 1992

Set number: T303

TS-based Class DMU set T303 (formed 51364 + 59516 + 51406) arrives at Boston on a Skegness-Nottingham working on 17 August 1992. Lewis Bevan.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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