Vehicle 59516
Class 117
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 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
| 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| 21/01/94 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX |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 liveryDisposal
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:
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:
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.
Date: 5th September 1981
Set number: L426
Class 117 DMU L426 (presumably 51406 + 59516 + 51364) approaching Paddington, 5th Sept 1981. Paul James.
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.
Date: 1984
Set number: B426
Class 117 DMU set B426 (W51364 and presumably W59516 + W51406) departs from Frome in early 1984. Michael Mensing.
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.
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.
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.
Date: 16th January 1985
Set number: L418
In rapidly deteriorating weather on 16/01/85 Class 117 Suburban DMU set L418 (presumably formed 51364 + 59516 + 51406) calls at Twyford with train 2F24 the 09.01 London Paddington to Oxford. Adrian Nicholls.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Date: unknown
Set number: T303
Class 117 DMU set T303 (presumably 51364 + 59516 + 51406) at Wylde Green, date unknown. Ian Dinmore/railarchive.org.uk.
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.
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.
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.
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.