Vehicle 59663
Class 115
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30531
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 51679 during the unknown period are:
| 4w/e 31/07/60 | On loan to | 55H (Neville Hill) | - New |
| 4w/e 01/10/60 | On loan to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 2w/e 30/04/61 | Ex-loan back to | Marylebone | |
| 4w/e 01/07/61 | Transferred to | 14F (Marylebone) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 1D |
Then the allocations for 59663 are:
| 31/12/64 | Listed at | 1D (Marylebone) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | ME | |
| Oct-88 | Transferred to | BY (Bletchley) | |
| 21/01/92 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) NMYX | |
| 13/08/92 | Withdrawn from | OO (Old Oak Common) NMYX |
Refurbished
At Derby Works dated 26/01/1979 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51679 | 59663 | 59678 | 51680 | As delivered to 55H - 4w/e 31/07/60 - on loan from LMR | |||||
| 51679 | 59663 | 59678 | 51680 | Transfer to 30A - 4w/e 01/10/60 - on loan from LMR | |||||
| 51679 | 59663 | 59678 | 51680 | Transfer to Marylebone - 2w/e 30/04/61 - ex-loan ER | |||||
| 51655 | 59678 | 59663 | 51865 | Noted 11/09/76 - in London Marylebone1 | |||||
| 51875 | 59663 | 59746 | 51900 | Noted 24/05/80 | |||||
| 51886 | 59663 | 59758 | 51894 | Noted circa 10/19832 | |||||
| 51883 | 59758 | 59663 | 51898 | Noted circa 02/19842 | |||||
| 51865 | 59663 | 59668 | 51675 | Noted circa 11/19842 | |||||
| 51869 | 59663 | 59758 | 51889 | Noted circa 10/19852 | |||||
| 51869 | 59663 | 59758 | 51889 | Noted 12/10/85 - at Amersham | |||||
| 51869 | 59663 | 59758 | 51655 | Noted circa 11/19852 | |||||
| 51677 | 59663 | 59758 | 51678 | Noted 21/11/86 - on Bletchley depot3 | |||||
| 51677 | 59663 | 59758 | 51678 | Noted 24/01/87 - on 18:10 Marylebone - Aylesbury4 | |||||
| 51883 | 59758 | 59663 | 51875 | Noted 16/09/19872 | |||||
| 51663 | 59758 | 59663 | 51875 | Noted circa 02/19882 | |||||
| 51680 | 59663 | 59758 | 51873 | Noted circa 01/19892 | |||||
| 51665 | 59663 | 59754 | 51863 | Noted 19/02/90 - on services to Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51855 | 59663 | 59736 | 51879 | Noted 08/05/90 - on services from Marylebone with 51895 + 545005 | |||||
| 51678 | 59755 | 59663 | 51668 | Noted circa 07/19902 | |||||
| 51871 | 59759 | 59663 | 51663 | Noted circa 02/19922 | |||||
| 51677 | 59663 | 51879 | Noted 24/02/92 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Gerald Brown
4: Martin Baumann
5: Aaron Calder
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 12th October 1985
Under the train shed at what is proberley a much changed Marylebone station since I took this, is this Marylebone allocated 4 car Derby Suburban class 115 dmu made up of cars M51889, M59758, M59663, M51869, on which I had arrived on from Amersham 12th October 1985. Andrew J Crowther.
Date: 12th October 1985
Running into Amersham station on 12th October 1985 is my train bound for London Marylebone, a Marylebone allocated 4 car Derby Suburban class 115 dmu made up of cars M51869, M59663, M59758, M51889. 26 years later I would be back in the same spot photographing London Undergrounds A60 stock, which was being withdrawn from service in 2011. Andrew J Crowther.