Vehicle 59728
Class 115
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30599
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 51867 during the unknown period are:
| 13/08/60 | New to | Derby Friargate | - stored pending allocation |
| Jan-61 | Transferred to | 14A (Cricklewood) | |
| Jul-61 | Transferred to | 14F (Marylebone) | |
| 4w/e 02/09/61 | Stored | Derby Friargate | |
| 4w/e 30/09/61 | Transfer | 14F (Marylebone) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 1D |
Then the allocations for 59728 are:
| Oct-88 | Transferred to | BY (Bletchley) | |
| 21/01/92 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) NMYX | |
| 01/10/92 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) RDTS | |
| 17/11/92 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX | |
| 27/11/92 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX |
Refurbished
At Derby Works dated 02/06/1981 released in blue/grey liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51867 | 59728 | 59748 | 51868 | As delivered to Derby Friargate - 13th August 1960 - stored pending allocation | |||||
| 51666 | 59728 | 59761 | 51874 | Noted 23/10/1971 - at Denham1 | |||||
| 51666 | 59728 | 59761 | 51874 | Noted 24/10/71 - in Marylebone2 | |||||
| 51666 | 59745 | 59728 | 51870 | Noted 24/05/80 | |||||
| 51862 | 59752 | 59728 | 51876 | Noted circa 08/19813 | |||||
| 51665 | 59728 | 59673 | 51870 | Noted 12/04/82 - on the Quaintonian shuttle with 51677 + 59738 + 59756 + 51896 | |||||
| 51876 | 59753 | 59728 | 51860 | Noted circa 06/19823 | |||||
| 51879 | 59728 | 59762 | 51861 | Noted circa 11/19843 | |||||
| 51886 | 59728 | 59762 | 51887 | Noted 31/07/85 - on Aylesbury - Marylebone service | |||||
| 51674 | 59728 | 59746 | 51876 | Noted circa 10/19853 | |||||
| 51876 | 59728 | 59678 | 51880 | Noted 28/12/1985 - at Marylebone4 | |||||
| 51874 | 59761 | 59728 | 51893 | Noted 21/11/86 - on Bletchley depot5 | |||||
| 51663 | 59728 | 59761 | 51894 | Noted 15/07/19873 | |||||
| 51887 | 59728 | 59671 | 51680 | Noted circa 02/19883 | |||||
| 51680 | 59728 | 59671 | 51659 | Noted circa 03/19883 | |||||
| 51680 | 59728 | 59671 | 51891 | Noted 15th April 1988 | |||||
| 51667 | 59732 | 59728 | 51679 | Noted 30/03/90 - on services from Marylebone with 51878 + 59735 + 515716 | |||||
| 51674 | 59728 | 59639 | 51896 | Noted 07/06/90 - on services to Marylebone6 | |||||
| 51675 | 59728 | 59746 | 51889 | Noted circa 07/19903 | |||||
| 51663 | 59728 | 59664 | 51885 | Noted 24/02/92 | |||||
| Spare | 59728 | Listed at TS - November 1992 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Robert Chilton
5: Gerald Brown
6: Aaron Calder
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 12th April 1982
51677 at the head of an 8-car Quaintonian shuttle at Quainton Road on the afternoon of 12/4/82. The other vehicles were 59738 - 59756 - 51896 + 51870 - 59673 - 59728 - 51665. Robert Frise.
Date: 12th April 1982
51677 at the head of an 8-car Quaintonian shuttle at Quainton Road on the afternoon of 12/4/82. The other vehicles were 59738 - 59756 - 51896 + 51870 - 59673 - 59728 - 51665. Robert Frise.
Date: 31st July 1985
A countryside walk from Beaconsfield to Amersham took me over the Aylesbury to London line via a footbridge at Little Missenden on the 31st July 1985. There I photographed Class 115 51886 (leading) + 59728 + 59762 + 51887 on a service for Marylebone. It is pictured approaching from the west. S Gaskell.
Date: 31st July 1985
Heading away beneath Keepers Lane bridge over the Aylesbury to London line at Little Missenden is Class 115 set 51887 (rear, closest) + 59762 + 59728 + 51886 on a service for Marylebone. Taken during a countryside walk from Beaconsfield to Amersham on the 31st July 1985. S Gaskell.