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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27/11/92	Withdrawn from	HQ (Headquarters) RFXX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 livery

Disposal

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
	51674	59728	59746	51876	Noted 21/11/85 - on a morning Marylebone – High Wycombe service⁴
	51674	59728	59746	51876	Noted 23/11/85 - on 07.27 Marylebone – Banbury and 10.08 Banbury – Marylebone⁴
	51876	59728	59678	51880	Noted 28/12/1985 - at Marylebone⁵
	51876	59678	59728	51880	Noted 09/01/86 - on 17.45 Marylebone – Aylesbury via Princes Risborough with 51660 + 59653 + 59664 + 51887⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51880	Noted 11/02/86 - on 19.50 Marylebone – Princes Risborough and 21.58 Princes Risborough - Marylebone⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 24/03/86 - on 18.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone with 51652 + 59677 + 59726 + 51665⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 15/04/86 - on 11.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 12.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 09/05/86 - on 19.25 Marylebone – Banbury and 22.10 Banbury – Marylebone⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 13/05/86 - on 06.33 Marylebone – Princes Risborough and 08.10 Princes Risborough - Marylebone⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 15/05/86 - on 10.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 11.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 23/05/86 - on 18.05 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 19.55 ECS High Wycombe – Marylebone both with 51677 + 59653 + 59664 + 51887⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 03/06/86 - on 15.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51870 + 59660 + 59761 + 51891⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 30/06/86 - on 15.05 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 16.00 High Wycombe – Marylebone⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 02/07/86 - on 15.05 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 16.00 High Wycombe – Marylebone⁴
	51876	59678	59728	51897	Noted 05/07/86 - on 09.38 Marylebone – Banbury and 12.45 Banbury – Marylebone, both with 51873 + 59661 + 59764 + 51895⁴
	51874	59761	59728	51893	Noted 21/11/86 - on Bletchley depot⁶
	51663	59728	59761	51894	Noted 15/07/1987³
	51680	59671	59728	51887	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 + 51571⁷
	51674	59728	59639	51896	Noted 07/06/90 - on services to Marylebone⁷
	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: Phil Shatford
5: Robert Chilton
6: Gerald Brown
7: 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.

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