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Vehicle 59760


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 51891 during the unknown period are:

15/10/60 New to Chaddesden - stabled pending allocation
4w/e 31/12/60 On loan to 30A (Stratford)
4w/e 01/04/61 Stored Marylebone - ex-loan
4w/e 01/07/61 Transfer 14F (Marylebone)
Sep-63Depot code change1D

Then the allocations for 59760 are:

4w/e 05/08/78 Transferred to AN (Allerton)
11/02/87 Transferred to TS (Tyseley)
p/e 10/11/90 Sector Change to TS (Tyseley) PXXZ
27/11/90 Withdrawn from TS (Tyseley) PXXZ

Modifications

Jul-87 - Gangway(s) fitted

Refurbished

At Derby Works dated 09/08/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51891 59740 59760 51892 As delivered to Chaddesden sidings - 15th October 1960 - pending allocation
51891 59740 59760 51892 Transfer to 30A - 4w/e 31/12/60 - on loan
51891 59740 59760 51892 Transfer to Marylebone - 4w/e 01/04/61 - ex-loan
51675 59730 59760 51888 Noted 19/11/70 - at Marylebone1
AN803 51854 59760 51884 Noted 31/05/19822
51853 59760 51849 Noted circa 09/19822
51853 59760 51856 Noted circa 11/19822
53935 59760 51853 Noted 27/03/1984 - at Liverpool Lime Street2
53071 59760 53880 Noted 13/12/87 - on 12:26 Lichfield City - Barnt Green3
T322 53071 59760 53880 Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
T322 53071 59760 53880 Noted 07/05/19882
53071 59760 53880 Noted 02/08/88 - on 16:30 Doncaster-Skegness
T322 53071 59760 53880 Noted 13/08/1989 - Special Train Birmingham New Street-Ironbridge and return
T322 53071 59760 53880 Listed at TS - 01/09/89
T322 53071 59760 53880 Listed at TS - 01/12/89
T322 53071 59760 53880 Noted 28/12/89 - in Nottingham Midland4
53073 59760 53132 Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot5
T328 53073 59760 53132 Listed at TS - mid May-90

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Martin Baumann
4: Gerald Brown
5: Jeremy Goodyear

Images:

Class 115 DMU at Sutton Coldfield

23rd December 1987

Set number: T322

Class 115 TS(L) M59760 at Sutton Coldfield on 23/12/87. Steve Jones.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 26th November 1987

Set number: T322

Birmingham Snow Hill was reopened as a terminus station on 5 October 1987. On 26 November of that year I took this picture of class 116 T322 (53071 + presumably 59760 + 53880) standing in the platform that was later taken over by the tram system. I don't know why it was at the buffers so far along the platform nor why there is a tail-lamp on it; the engines were clearly working but there may have been a problem with the transmission which caused a failure. Peter Tandy.

DMU

Date: 23rd December 1987

Set number: T322

Tyseley set T322 (M53880/M59760/M53071) leaves Sutton Coldfield with a cross-city service to Longbridge via Birmingham New Street on 23/12/87. This is a Class 116 set with a Class 115 TS(L) in the middle. Steve Jones.

DMU

Date: 23rd December 1987

Set number: T322

Tyseley set T322 (M53071/M59760/M53880) at Sutton Coldfield with a cross-city service to Longbridge via Birmingham New Street on 23/12/87. This is a Class 116 set with a Class 115 TS(L) in the middle. Steve Jones.

DMU

Date: 23rd April 1988

Set number: T322

Class 116 set T322 (53880 + 59760 + 53071) passes through Bingley station with a return excursion from the Severn Valley to the Worth Valley on April 23rd, 1988. Rex Holt.

DMU

Date: 23rd April 1988

Set number: T322

Class 116 DMU set T322 (53071 + 59760 + 53880) lays over at Keighley prior to working a return excursion to the Severn Valley Railway on April 23rd, 1988. Rex Holt.

DMU

Date: 2nd July 1988

Set number: T322

Class 116 3-car DMU with set number T322 at Selly Oak on 2 July 1988, presumably formed of 53071 + 59760 + 53880. Lewis Bevan.

DMU

Date: 28th April 1990

Set number: T328

53073 is at the rear of set T328 with 59760 + 53132 leaving Kidderminster, on the 09:32 Birmingham New Street - Great Malvern, 28/4/90. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: 18th May 1990

Set number: T328

T328 awaiting departure from Worcester, 18/5/90. The DMBS is 53073, presumably with 59760 + 53132. Mike Cooper.