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Vehicle 59591

Class 127

BR Diagram 589

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square / Red Triangle
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30522
Diagram: 589

Allocations

The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 51595 during the unknown period are:

20/06/59 New to Chaddesden - pending allocation
Dec-59 Transferred to 14A (Cricklewood)

Then the allocations for 59591 are:

11/10/83 Transferred to TS (Tyseley)
10/06/93 Transferred to HQ (Headquarters) RFXX
23/06/93 Withdrawn from HQ (Headquarters) RFXX

Notes

November 1986 - 59590/1 listed as transferred to Eastfield but move cancelled

Refurbished

At Derby Works dated 30/09/1983 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51595 59591 59621 51596 As delivered to Chaddesden sidings - 20th June 1959 - pending allocation
51612 59640 59591 51622 Noted 02/09/71 - at Kentish Town1
51612 59642 59591 51622 Noted 24/09/71 - in St Pancras1
51612 59591 59628 51637 Noted 21/12/78 - on 09.57 St. Pancras – Cricklewood2
51612 59591 59628 51638 Noted 15/02/79 - on 12.15 Luton – Bedford2
51612 59591 59628 51638 Noted 19/02/79 - on 21.54 Cricklewood – St. Pancras2
51612 59591 59628 51638 Noted 23/02/79 - on 13.00 Bedford – Luton2
51612 59591 59628 51638 Noted 24/02/79 - on 13.16 Luton – Cricklewood2
51603 59591 59628 51650 Noted 16/03/79 - on 09.15 Cricklewood – Luton with 51617 + 59606 + 59636 + 516272
51603 59591 59628 51650 Noted 26/03/79 - on 13.43 Elstree – Bedford2
51603 59591 59628 51650 Noted 30/03/79 - on 04.28 Bedford – Cricklewood2
51603 59591 59628 51650 Noted 01/04/79 - on a Bedford – Cricklewood service2
51604 59591 59643 51618 Noted 05/03/80 - on 05.05 Bedford – Cricklewood2
51604 59591 59643 51618 Noted 15/03/80 - on 02.05 Cricklewood – Bedford2
51604 59591 59643 51618 Noted 20/03/80 - on 07.30 St. Albans – Cricklewood2
51604 59591 59643 51618 Noted 09/04/80 - on 16.47 Bedford – Cricklewood2
51604 59591 59643 51618 Noted 20/04/80 - on 06.42 Cricklewood – Bedford2
51604 59591 59643 51618 Noted 29/04/80 - on 21.10 Bedford – Luton2
51597 59591 59643 51645 Noted 10/05/80 - on 05.05 Bedford – St. Albans2
51613 59591 59642 51614 Noted 11/09/80 - on 11.00 Bedford – Luton2
51613 59591 59642 51614 Noted 24/09/80 - on 16.59 Cricklewood – St. Pancras and 17.38 St. Pancras – Bedford2
51613 59591 59642 51614 Noted 25/09/80 - on 19.37 St. Pancras – Bedford2
51618 59591 59636 51623 Noted 18/01/81 - on 2G13 17.40 St Pancras – Bedford2
51600 59591 59636 51627 Noted 24/02/81 - on 2C14 07.30 St. Albans – St Pancras2
51600 59591 59636 51627 Noted 05/03/81 - on 2C57 21.15 Luton – St Pancras2
51600 59591 59636 51627 Noted 09/03/81 - on 2C41 14.00 Luton – St. Pancras2
51600 59591 59636 51627 Noted 16/03/81 - on 2C42 14.00 Bedford – St Pancras2
51610 59591 59637 51622 Noted 11/04/81 - on 2C07 05.05 Bedford – St Pancras2
51610 59591 59637 51622 Noted 25/04/81 - on 2C07 05.05 Bedford – St Pancras2
51600 59591 59637 51610 Noted 22/05/81 - on 2C57 21.30 Luton – St Pancras2
51600 59591 59637 51643 Noted 29/05/81 - on 2G03 05.35 St Pancras – Bedford2
51600 59591 59637 51612 Noted 04/06/81 - on 2H12 16.05 St Pancras – Luton2
51600 59591 59637 51612 Noted 07/06/81 - on 2G05 09.50 St Pancras – Bedford2
51600 59591 59637 51611 Noted 18/06/81 - on 2C14 07.30 St Albans – St Pancras2
51600 59591 59637 51611 Noted 06/08/81 - on 2C10 05.45 Kettering – St Pancras2
51600 59591 59637 51611 Noted 13/08/81 - on 2G03 05.35 St Pancras – Bedford2
51600 59591 59637 51611 Noted 17/08/81 - on 2C59 22.15 Luton – St Pancras2
51600 59591 59637 51611 Noted 20/08/81 - on 2K05 17.44 St Pancras – St Albans2
51600 59591 59637 51611 Noted 26/08/81 - on 2C42 14.00 Bedford – St Pancras2
51600 59591 59637 51611 Noted 28/08/81 - on 2C42 14.00 Bedford – St Pancras2
51604 59591 59637 51618 Noted 13/10/81 - on 2G09 10.27 St Pancras – Bedford2
51623 59591 59640 51634 Noted 11/12/81 - on 2C25 07.57 Bedford – St Pancras2
51623 59591 59640 51634 Noted 20/12/81 - on 2C14 16.20 Bedford – St Pancras2
51623 59591 59640 51634 Noted 31st December 1981
51622 59591 59626 51630 Noted 12/02/82 - on 14.16 Luton – Bedford2
51614 59591 59631 51638 Noted 18/03/82 - on 09.57 St. Pancras – Kentish Town2
51614 59591 59631 51638 Noted 15/04/82 - on 07.30 St. Albans – Cricklewood2
51640 59591 59631 51645 Noted circa 05/19823
51640 59591 59631 51645 Noted 14/05/82 - on 10.16 Luton – Bedford2
51610 59591 59642 51650 Noted 05/08/82 - on 11.00 Bedford – Cricklewood2
51637 59591 59644 51646 Noted circa 11/19823
51598 59591 59644 51644 Noted 13/11/82 - on 10.15 Bedford – Luton2
51598 59591 59644 51644 Noted 16/11/82 - on 20.10 Bedford – Cricklewood2
51637 59591 59644 51644 Noted 24/11/82 - on a Cricklewood – Bedford working2
51637 59591 59644 51644 Noted 25/11/82 - on 13:57 St Pancras to Luton
51613 59591 59644 51644 Noted 24/12/82 - on 02.30 Bedford – Cricklewood2
51639 59591 59644 51644 Noted circa 01/19833
51639 59591 59644 51644 Noted 08/01/83 - on 14.12 Cricklewood – Luton2
51638 59591 59626 51639 Noted 28/01/83 - on 20.46 St. Albans – Bedford2
51635 59591 59647 51644 Noted 21/04/83 - on 19.17 Cricklewood – Luton2
51635 59591 59647 51644 Noted 25/04/83 - on 20.10 Bedford – Cricklewood2
51644 59591 59647 51635 Noted circa 05/19833
51635 59591 59647 51644 Noted 06/05/83 - on 08.47 St. Pancras – Cricklewood2
51625 59591 59647 51644 Noted 13/05/83 - on 02.06 Cricklewood – Bedford2
51640 59591 59647 51644 Noted 05/06/83 - on 06.42 Cricklewood – Bedford2
51640 59591 59647 51644 Noted 07/06/83 - on 17.54 St. Pancras – Cricklewood2
TS615 53850 59591 53102 Noted circa 09/19843
TS615 53850 59591 53102 Listed at TS - May-85
TS615 53850 59591 53102 Noted circa 11/19853
53850 59591 53102 Noted 07/12/85 - on 15:30 Leamington - Birmingham Moor Street service4
TS615 53850 59591 53102 Noted 01/06/1986 - Coalville Depot open day shuttles to and from Leicester TS611+TS615
TS615 53850 59591 53102 Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986
TS615 53850 59591 53102 Noted circa 02/19873
TS615 53102 59591 Noted 25/02/1987 - at Old Oak Common5
TS615 53850 59591 53102 Noted circa 06/19873
T615 53850 59591 53102 Listed at TS - Jul-87
53850 59591 53102 Noted 02/09/87 - on 14.10 Machynllech - Pwllheli
T412 51867 59446 59591 53102 Noted circa 01/19883
T412 51867 59446 59591 53102 Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
T412 51867 59446 59591 53102 Listed at TS - 01/09/89
T412 51867 59446 59591 53116 Noted circa 10/19893
T412 51867 59446 59591 53116 Listed at TS - 01/12/89
51867 59591 59446 53116 Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot6
T412 51867 59446 59591 53116 Listed at TS - mid May-90
T412 51867 59591 59446 53116 Noted circa 12/19903
T412 51867 59591 59446 53116 Noted circa 03/19913
L412 51867 59591 59446 53116 Noted 19/03/91 - in Banbury area7
T412 51867 59591 59446 53055 Noted circa 05/19913
T412 51867 59446 59591 53116 Listed at TS - Jul-91
T412 51867 59446 59591 53055 Listed at TS - Aug-91
T412 51867 59591 59446 53116 Noted circa 09/19913
T412 51867 59446 59591 53116 Listed at TS - Dec-91
T412 51884 59446 59591 53116 Listed at TS - 02/07/92
T412 51877 59591 59446 53116 Noted circa 09/19923
T412 51877 59446 59591 53116 Listed at TS - 24/09/92
T412 51868 59446 59591 53116 Listed at TS - November 1992
T412 51860 59446 59591 53116 Listed at TS - 10/12/92

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Phil Shatford
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Martin Baumann
5: Robert Chilton
6: Jeremy Goodyear
7: Aaron Calder

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 31st December 1981

M51623 + M59591 + M59640 + M51634 with the 11:57 London St.Pancras - Bedford service at Cricklewood, 31/12/81. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 5th June 1986

Set number: TS615

Tyseley's class 116 T615 (presumably 53850 + 59591 + 53102) working a Birmingham New Street to Hereford service approaches the stop at Langley Green station on a dull and misty 5 June 1986 as 31 142 takes chlorine tanks from Allbright and Wilson's through the yard at Rood End to Bescot and eventually ICI Wilton. Peter Tandy.

DMU

Date: 2nd September 1987

By September 1987 nearly all passenger trains on the Cambrian Coast were worked by Class 150 Sprinters, but this is a "heritage dmu" (formed 53102/59591/53850) crossing Barmouth Bridge on the 14.10 Machynllech - Pwllheli on 2 September 1987. Taken while I was waiting for "Manor" 7819 on a Barmouth - Machynllech working. Lewis Bevan.

DMU

Date: 17th November 1990

Set number: T412

Tyseley's set T412 at Small Heath station, which should have been headed by 53102 but had been reformed with 53116, followed by 59591, 59668 and 51867, on 17/Nov/1990. The formation was a mixture of class 116, 127 and 115 which was normal for most of the four-car sets at Tyseley at the time. Robert Chilton.

DMU

Date: 6th May 1991

Set number: T412

Tyseley's four car sets were mostly formed of class 115, 116 and 127 as was the case on 6 May 1991 when I photographed T412 (53055 + 59446 + 59591 + 51867) passing the now demolished Smethwick West signalbox with a Hereford to Birmingham New Street train. The class 47 waiting at the signal was 47813 working a railtour that had just visited Handsworth in the days before the line was re-opened through to Snow Hill. Just behind the camera the Handsworth line crossed the Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton route. This is now the site of Galton Bridge Station interchange where passengers can change trains between the two lines thus making the old Smethwick West station redundant. It's worth noting that any train leaving the Handsworth branch including this railtour had to run wrong line as far as Rood End Yard between here and Langley Green. Peter Tandy.

DMU

Date: 23rd January 1993

Set number: T412

T412 (53116 + 59446 + 59591 + 51860) at Redditch, having arrived as the 09:36 ex-New St, and about to form the 10:23 to New St. Note the wiring which was near to completion, spelling the end of most Tyseley DMU’s. 23rd January 1993. Gazza Prescott.

DMU

Date: 10th April 1993

Set number: T412

53116 at the rear of set T412, after arrival at New St as the 11.25 from Longbridge on 10/4/93. The set would reverse and then form the 12.06 to Redditch. On this day the other cars in the set were 59591, 59446 and 51860. At this time 53116 was approaching 36 years of service and would go on to achieve another two, all at Tyseley. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: 10th April 1993

Set number: T412

51860 at the head of set T412 (51860/59591/59446/53116) leaves University station, Birmingham, on the 12.53 Redditch - New St on 10/4/93. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: 10th April 1993

Set number: T412

53116 at the rear of set T412 (51860/59591/59446/53116) leaves University station, Birmingham, on the 12.53 Redditch - New St on 10/4/93. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: 2nd May 1993

On 2 May 1993 Pathfinder ran a mini-railtour in connection with an open day at Worcester using 20138+20066. The 2 locos were, unusually, hauling two 4-car DMUs, T404 (51853+59735+59604+53919) + T412 (51860+59591+59446+53116) which ran from Birmingham New Street to Worcester via the Lickey incline, and then on to Hereford and back via Great Malvern. The first of four shots was taken as train slowed for the junction at Stoke Prior before it turned onto the single line to Droitwich and Worcester. Peter Tandy.

DMU

Date: 2nd May 1993

On 2 May 1993 Pathfinder ran a mini-railtour in connection with an open day at Worcester using 20138+20066. The 2 locos were, unusually, hauling two 4-car DMUs, T404 (51853+59735+59604+53919) + T412 (51860+59591+59446+53116) which ran from Birmingham New Street to Worcester via the Lickey incline, and then on to Hereford and back via Great Malvern. The second of four shots was taken after a quick drive down to Ashchurch with a couple of minutes to spare. It is interesting to note that the trees on the up side of the line were still quite small in 1993. They subsequently grew very tall and were felled in 2004. Peter Tandy.

DMU

Date: 2nd May 1993

On 2 May 1993 Pathfinder ran a mini-railtour in connection with an open day at Worcester using 20138+20066. The 2 locos were, unusually, hauling two 4-car DMUs, T404 (51853+59735+59604+53919) + T412 (51860+59591+59446+53116) which ran from Birmingham New Street to Worcester via the Lickey incline, and then on to Hereford and back via Great Malvern. There was plenty of time to run over to Stoke Edith, on the Worcester - Hereford line, to obtain the third of four shots. The sun still co-operated for this pleasantly rural view. Peter Tandy.

DMU

Date: 2nd May 1993

On 2 May 1993 Pathfinder ran a mini-railtour in connection with an open day at Worcester using 20138+20066. The 2 locos were, unusually, hauling two 4-car DMUs, T404 (51853+59735+59604+53919) + T412 (51860+59591+59446+53116) which ran from Birmingham New Street to Worcester via the Lickey incline, and then on to Hereford and back via Great Malvern. This was the final shot of four of the tour - no longer in full sun which infuriated some of the more vocal enthusiasts - but still quite an acceptable shot. It is the classic view at Stoke Edith which I expect is now so overgrown as to be unusable. Peter Tandy.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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