Vehicle 59631

Class 127

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square / Red Triangle
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30523
Diagram: 590

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 51615 during the unknown period are:

Then the allocations for 59631 are:

59631 was involved in the following incident:

8/11/77 - Napsbury, LMR

Collision involving Class 127 / Class 127

Info from Peter Mullen

A set (5C26) travelling from Bedford to St. Pancras collided at about 40mph with the rear of a St. Albans to St. Pancras empty coaching stock train (2C65) which was standing at a signal. The collision resulted in the derailment of the two leading coaches of the passenger train as well as the rear coach of the empty stock train. The driver, guard and two passengers in the passenger train were injured and taken to hospital. Both trains were 4-car Class 127 DMUs comprising of vehicles 51626, 59609, 59643 and 51641 (5C26) and 51617, 59617, 59631 and 51601 (2C65) respectively. The accident was a result of the signalman forgetting about the stationary train at the St. Albans Up Slow Starting Signal and instructing the driver of the passenger train to pass the St. Albans Inner Home signal at Danger into an already occupied section.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Phil Shatford
5: Robert Chilton

Images:

22nd February 1986

Class 127 59631 centre trailer car is seen at Tyseley on 22.02.1986 still in all over BR blue livery. These Class 127 trailers were transferred to Tyseley to replace Class 116 centre cars which still contained asbestos. Andy Cole.

21st February 1992

Class 127 centre car M59631 at Snailwell on February 21, 1992. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 1986

Set number: T503

Most of the suburban passenger trains on the Birmingham Cross City Line were class 116 units but odds and ends turned up from time to time. On this occasion a BR blue centre coach (Class 127 TS 59631), probably one of the few remaining at this time in 1986, made a contrast with the standard blue and grey colour scheme (of presumably 53076 + 53118). I took this slide at Longbridge where most of the trains from either Lichfield or Four Oaks terminated and then crossed over and reversed for the return journey. The British Leyland car factory dominated the background. Following the collapse of BL the whole site was closed and is now a retail park while the railway infrastructure has changed with the advent of OHL electrification going to Redditch and Bromsgrove. Peter Tandy.

Date: 25th July 1987

Set number: TS503

The 14.13 Longbridge – Lichfield City sets off from Longbridge on its cross-Birmingham journey on 25 July 1987 formed of a class 116 unit comprising vehicles 53076, 59631 and 53118 (closest). The centre vehicle, a class 127 trailer, was one of only a handful of suburban DMUs still to retain its blue livery at this time. Robert28194.