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| 27/11/92 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX |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 | |||||
| 51653 | 59669 | 59728 | 51654 | Noted 22/01/76 - at Derby Litchurch Lane, 51654 about to swap with 51673 at Allerton3 | |||||
| 51666 | 59745 | 59728 | 51870 | Noted 24/05/80 | |||||
| 51862 | 59752 | 59728 | 51876 | Noted circa 08/19814 | |||||
| 51665 | 59728 | 59673 | 51870 | Noted 12/04/82 - on the Quaintonian shuttle with 51677 + 59738 + 59756 + 51896 | |||||
| 51876 | 59753 | 59728 | 51860 | Noted circa 06/19824 | |||||
| 51873 | 59728 | 59762 | 51887 | Noted 01/07/1984 - at Birmingham New Street, for Billy Graham event3 | |||||
| 51879 | 59728 | 59762 | 51861 | Noted circa 11/19844 | |||||
| 51886 | 59728 | 59762 | 51887 | Noted 31/07/85 - on Aylesbury - Marylebone service | |||||
| 51674 | 59728 | 59746 | 51876 | Noted circa 10/19854 | |||||
| 51674 | 59728 | 59746 | 51876 | Noted 21/11/85 - on a morning Marylebone – High Wycombe service5 | |||||
| 51674 | 59728 | 59746 | 51876 | Noted 23/11/85 - on 07.27 Marylebone – Banbury and 10.08 Banbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51876 | 59728 | 59678 | 51880 | Noted 28/12/1985 - at Marylebone6 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51880 | Noted 09/01/86 - on 17.45 Marylebone – Aylesbury via Princes Risborough with 51660 + 59653 + 59664 + 518875 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51880 | Noted 11/02/86 - on 19.50 Marylebone – Princes Risborough and 21.58 Princes Risborough - Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 24/03/86 - on 18.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone with 51652 + 59677 + 59726 + 516655 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 15/04/86 - on 11.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 12.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 09/05/86 - on 19.25 Marylebone – Banbury and 22.10 Banbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 13/05/86 - on 06.33 Marylebone – Princes Risborough and 08.10 Princes Risborough - Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 15/05/86 - on 10.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 11.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 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 + 518875 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 03/06/86 - on 15.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51870 + 59660 + 59761 + 518915 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 30/06/86 - on 15.05 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 16.00 High Wycombe – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 02/07/86 - on 15.05 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 16.00 High Wycombe – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 05/07/86 - on 09.38 Marylebone – Banbury and 12.45 Banbury – Marylebone, both with 51873 + 59661 + 59764 + 518955 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 20/07/86 - on 12.40 Marylebone – Banbury and 15.44 Banbury - Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51876 | 59678 | 59728 | 51897 | Noted 22/07/86 - on 17.00 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 18.10 Aylesbury - Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51680 | 59728 | 59761 | 51874 | Noted 08/09/86 - on 17.45 Marylebone – Aylesbury via Princes Risborough with 51660 + 59649 + 59752 + 518655 | |||||
| 51680 | 59728 | 59761 | 51874 | Noted 13/09/86 - on Marylebone – High Wycombe services5 | |||||
| 51874 | 59761 | 59728 | 51893 | Noted 21/11/86 - on Bletchley depot7 | |||||
| 51668 | 59728 | 59756 | 51869 | Noted 10/12/86 - on 12.38 Marylebone – High Wycombe and High Wycombe (14.38) – Marylebone (15.31)5 | |||||
| 51885 | 59763 | 59728 | 51886 | Noted 26/03/87 - on 15.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury5 | |||||
| 51866 | 59763 | 59728 | 51885 | Noted 06/05/87 - on 20.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51866 | 59673 | 59728 | 51885 | Noted 13/05/87 - on 05.35 Marylebone – Banbury and 07.47 Banbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51663 | 59728 | 59761 | 51894 | Noted 02/07/87 - on 17.42 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51878 + 542595 | |||||
| 51663 | 59728 | 59761 | 51894 | Noted 15/07/19874 | |||||
| 51680 | 59671 | 59728 | 51887 | Noted circa 02/19884 | |||||
| 51659 | 59671 | 59728 | 51680 | Noted circa 03/19884 | |||||
| 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 – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51680 | 59671 | 59728 | 51891 | Noted 11/06/88 - on 05.32 Marylebone – Banbury and 07.26 Banbury - Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51680 | 59671 | 59728 | 51891 | Noted 23/06/88 - on morning Marylebone – Aylesbury duties5 | |||||
| 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 + 516795 | |||||
| 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 - Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51665 | 59728 | 59754 | 51885 | Noted 03/09/88 - on 06.20 Marylebone – Banbury and 08.26 Banbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51665 | 59728 | 59754 | 51885 | Noted 08/09/88 - on 18.25 Marylebone – Banbury and 20.53 Banbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51655 | 59676 | 59728 | 51885 | Noted 02/10/88 - on 13.47 Banbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 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 – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51655 | 59676 | 59728 | 51885 | Noted 21/10/88 - on 21.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51655 | 59676 | 59728 | 51885 | Noted 22/10/88 - on 17.01 Marylebone – Princes Risborough and 18.55 Princes Risborough - Aylesbury5 | |||||
| 51875 | 59676 | 59728 | 51885 | Noted 14/12/88 - on 14.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51659 + 59657 + 59754 + 51863 then solo on 15.40 Aylesbury - Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51659 | 59728 | 59764 | 51875 | Noted 12/05/89 - on 07.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 08.27 Aylesbury – Marylebone both with 51661 + 542805 | |||||
| 51659 | 59669 | 59728 | 51875 | Noted 14/06/89 - on 16.00 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 17.10 Aylesbury - Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51866 | 59728 | 59747 | 51883 | Noted 17/11/89 - on 18.02 Marylebone - Aylesbury with 51849 + 544995 | |||||
| 51866 | 59728 | 59747 | 51883 | Noted 27/11/89 - on 16.30 Marylebone – Aylesbury, 17.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone, 18.54 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 20.00 High Wycombe – Marylebone ECS5 | |||||
| 51866 | 59728 | 59747 | 51883 | Noted 30/11/89 - on 16.30 Marylebone – Aylesbury, 17.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone, 18.54 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 20.00 High Wycombe – Marylebone ECS5 | |||||
| 51866 | 59728 | 59747 | 51883 | Noted 28/12/89 - on 16.15 Marylebone – Banbury, 18.20 Banbury – Marylebone and 21.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury, all with 51895 + 54500, then solo on 22.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone5 | |||||
| 51673 | 59728 | 59747 | 51889 | Noted 26/03/90 - on 11.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 12.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone, both with 51664 + 543815 | |||||
| 51673 | 59728 | 59747 | 51889 | Noted 27/03/90 - on 11.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 12.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone, both with 51664 + 543815 | |||||
| 51667 | 59732 | 59728 | 51679 | Noted 30/03/90 - on services from Marylebone with 51878 + 59735 + 515718 | |||||
| 51674 | 59728 | 59659 | 51896 | Noted 07/06/90 - on services to Marylebone8 | |||||
| 51675 | 59728 | 59746 | 51889 | Noted circa 07/19904 | |||||
| 51663 | 59728 | 59664 | 51885 | Noted 24/02/92 | |||||
| Spare | 59728 | Listed at TS - November 1992 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Martin Lumley
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Phil Shatford
6: Robert Chilton
7: Gerald Brown
8: 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.