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<- 59727 | 59728 | 59729 ->

Vehicle 59728

Class 115

BR Diagram 590

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-63Depot code change1D

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27/11/92 Withdrawn from HQ (Headquarters) RFXX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
51876 59678 59728 51897 Noted 20/07/86 - on 12.40 Marylebone – Banbury and 15.44 Banbury - Marylebone4
51876 59678 59728 51897 Noted 22/07/86 - on 17.00 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 18.10 Aylesbury - Marylebone4
51680 59728 59761 51874 Noted 08/09/86 - on 17.45 Marylebone – Aylesbury via Princes Risborough with 51660 + 59649 + 59752 + 518654
51680 59728 59761 51874 Noted 13/09/86 - on Marylebone – High Wycombe services4
51874 59761 59728 51893 Noted 21/11/86 - on Bletchley depot6
51668 59728 59756 51869 Noted 10/12/86 - on 12.38 Marylebone – High Wycombe and High Wycombe (14.38) – Marylebone (15.31)4
51885 59763 59728 51886 Noted 26/03/87 - on 15.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury4
51866 59763 59728 51885 Noted 06/05/87 - on 20.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone4
51866 59673 59728 51885 Noted 13/05/87 - on 05.35 Marylebone – Banbury and 07.47 Banbury – Marylebone4
51663 59728 59761 51894 Noted 02/07/87 - on 17.42 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51878 + 542594
51663 59728 59761 51894 Noted 15/07/19873
51680 59671 59728 51887 Noted circa 02/19883
51659 59671 59728 51680 Noted circa 03/19883
51680 59728 59671 51891 Noted 15th April 1988
51680 59671 59728 51891 Noted 27/04/88 - on 08.35 Marylebone – Banbury and 10.45 Banbury – Marylebone4
51680 59671 59728 51891 Noted 11/06/88 - on 05.32 Marylebone – Banbury and 07.26 Banbury - Marylebone4
51680 59671 59728 51891 Noted 23/06/88 - on morning Marylebone – Aylesbury duties4
51665 59728 59754 51885 Noted 06/08/88 - on 19.40 Aylesbury - Marylebone and West Ruislip (22.55) – Marylebone (23.20) both with 51656 + 59671 + 59740 + 516794
51665 59728 59754 51885 Noted 21/08/88 - on Marylebone (06.45) - West Ruislip (07.15), West Ruislip (08.11) – Marylebone (08.33), 09.15 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 11.40 High Wycombe - Marylebone4
51665 59728 59754 51885 Noted 03/09/88 - on 06.20 Marylebone – Banbury and 08.26 Banbury – Marylebone4
51665 59728 59754 51885 Noted 08/09/88 - on 18.25 Marylebone – Banbury and 20.53 Banbury – Marylebone4
51655 59676 59728 51885 Noted 02/10/88 - on 13.47 Banbury – Marylebone4
51655 59676 59728 51885 Noted 03/10/88 - on 15.15 Marylebone – High Wycombe, 16.11 High Wycombe – Marylebone, 17.20 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 18.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone4
51655 59676 59728 51885 Noted 21/10/88 - on 21.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone4
51655 59676 59728 51885 Noted 22/10/88 - on 17.01 Marylebone – Princes Risborough and 18.55 Princes Risborough - Aylesbury4
51875 59676 59728 51885 Noted 14/12/88 - on 14.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51659 + 59657 + 59754 + 51863 then solo on 15.40 Aylesbury - Marylebone4
51659 59728 59764 51875 Noted 12/05/89 - on 07.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 08.27 Aylesbury – Marylebone both with 51661 + 542804
51659 59669 59728 51875 Noted 14/06/89 - on 16.00 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 17.10 Aylesbury - Marylebone4
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:

DMU

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.

DMU

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.

DMU

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.

DMU

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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