Vehicle 59758
Class 115
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30600
Diagram: 599
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 51887 during the unknown period are:
| 01/10/60 | New to | Chaddesden | - stabled pending allocation |
| 4w/e 31/12/60 | On loan to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 2w/e 08/04/61 | Stored | Marylebone | - ex-loan |
| 4w/e 01/07/61 | Transfer | 14F (Marylebone) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 1D |
Then the allocations for 59758 are:
| Oct-88 | Transferred to | BY (Bletchley) | |
| 21/01/92 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) NMYX | |
| 27/08/92 | Withdrawn from | OO (Old Oak Common) | |
| 01/10/92 | Reinstated | TS (Tyseley) RDTS | |
| 17/11/92 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX | |
| 27/11/92 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX |
Disposal
Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51887 | 59738 | 59758 | 51888 | As delivered to Chaddesden sidings - 1st October 1960 - stabled pending allocation | |||||
| 51887 | 59738 | 59758 | 51888 | Transfer to 30A - 4w/e 31/12/60 - on loan from LMR | |||||
| 51887 | 59738 | 59758 | 51888 | Transfer to Marylebone - 2w/e 08/04/61 - ex-loan 30A | |||||
| 51873 | 59733 | 59758 | 51877 | Noted 19/11/70 - at Marylebone1 | |||||
| 51672 | 59758 | 59744 | 51900 | Noted 03/09/76 - on Marylebone depot2 | |||||
| 51652 | 59758 | 59733 | 51679 | Noted 11/09/76 - in London Marylebone1 | |||||
| 51674 | 59758 | 59739 | 51898 | Noted 24/05/80 - on Rainhill shuttle | |||||
| 51886 | 59663 | 59758 | 51894 | Noted circa 10/19833 | |||||
| 51883 | 59758 | 59663 | 51898 | Noted circa 02/19843 | |||||
| 51869 | 59663 | 59758 | 51889 | Noted 03/09/85 - on 09.38 Marylebone – Banbury and 12.20 Banbury – Marylebone4 | |||||
| 51869 | 59663 | 59758 | 51889 | Noted 11/09/85 - on 09.38 Marylebone – Banbury and 12.20 Banbury – Marylebone4 | |||||
| 51869 | 59663 | 59758 | 51889 | Noted 24/09/85 - on 16.15 Marylebone – Aylesbury via Princes Risborough and 17.36 Aylesbury – Marylebone via Princes Risborough4 | |||||
| 51869 | 59663 | 59758 | 51889 | Noted circa 10/19853 | |||||
| 51869 | 59663 | 59758 | 51889 | Noted 12/10/85 - at Amersham | |||||
| 51655 | 59758 | 59663 | 51869 | Noted circa 11/19853 | |||||
| 51655 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 21/11/85 - on a morning Marylebone – High Wycombe service4 | |||||
| 51655 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 06/12/85 - on 17.45 Marylebone – Aylesbury via Princes Risborough with 51679 + 59663 + 59745 + 518714 | |||||
| 51655 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 19/12/85 - on morning Marylebone – High Wycombe services4 | |||||
| 51655 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 24/12/85 - on 17.10 Marylebone – High Wycombe and 18.14 High Wycombe – Marylebone4 | |||||
| 51655 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 01/01/86 - on 18.00 Marylebone – Aylesbury and 19.40 Aylesbury – Marylebone with 51677 + 59652 + 59764 + 518994 | |||||
| 51655 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 24/01/86 - on 10.08 Banbury – Marylebone and 08.10 Princes Risborough – Marylebone4 | |||||
| 51655 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 28/01/86 - on 17.45 Marylebone – Aylesbury via Princes Risborough with 51676 + 59650 + 59673 + 518974 | |||||
| 51655 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 13/02/86 - on 17.40 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51673 + 59667 + 59743 + 518734 | |||||
| 51655 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 05/06/86 - on 15.10 Marylebone – Aylesbury with 51670 + 59666 + 59730 + 51673 and 16.25 Aylesbury – Marylebone via Princes Risborough alone4 | |||||
| 51678 | 59663 | 59758 | 51869 | Noted 20/06/86 - on afternoon Marylebone – High Wycombe services4 | |||||
| 51677 | 59663 | 59758 | 51678 | Noted 21/11/86 - on Bletchley depot2 | |||||
| 51677 | 59663 | 59758 | 51678 | Noted 24/01/87 - on 18:10 Marylebone - Aylesbury5 | |||||
| 51875 | 59663 | 59758 | 51883 | Noted 16/09/19873 | |||||
| 51663 | 59758 | 59663 | 51875 | Noted circa 02/19883 | |||||
| 51680 | 59663 | 59758 | 51873 | Noted circa 01/19893 | |||||
| 51670 | 59758 | 59732 | 51871 | Noted 21/02/90 - on services to Marylebone6 | |||||
| 51670 | 59758 | 59732 | 51871 | Noted 26/02/90 - on services from Marylebone with 51893 + 542576 | |||||
| 51680 | 59735 | 59758 | 51872 | Noted circa 11/19913 | |||||
| 51891 | 59671 | 59733 | 51872 | 59758 | 51874 | Noted 24/02/92 | |||
| Spare | 59758 | Listed at TS - November 1992 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Phil Shatford
5: Martin Baumann
6: Aaron Calder
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 24th May 1980
At Liverpool on the 24th May 1980 the Rainhill shuttle is formed of 51678 (closest) + 59744 + 59757 + 51663 + 51674 + 59758 + 59739 + 51898 - vehicles on loan from Marylebone. Robert Frise.
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.