Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30605
Diagram: 573
| 27/09/60 | New to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 25/03/67 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
| 20/05/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
| 51959 | 51976 | 59769 | 59778 | 51977 | 51960 | As delivered to 55H - 27th September 1960 | |||
| 51958 | 51978 | 59769 | 59779 | 51981 | 51964 | Noted 17/10/1969 - Leeds, on 13.40 Hull to Liverpool service1 | |||
| 51956 | 51981 | 59769 | 59778 | 51970 | 51954 | Noted 10/12/1969 - Leeds, on 13.50 Hull to Liverpool1 | |||
| 51954 | 51981 | 59778 | 59769 | 51976 | Noted 31/12/69 - in Liverpool Lime Street, other DMC not recorded2 | ||||
| 51963 | 51969 | 59769 | 59778 | 51980 | 51952 | Noted 07/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||
| 51965 | 51972 | 59769 | 59778 | 51980 | 51954 | Noted 21/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||
| 51957 | 51972 | 59779 | 59769 | 51984 | 51959 | Noted 29/04/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||
| 51951 | 51972 | 59778 | 59769 | 51979 | 50559 | Noted 11/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||
| 51955 | 51979 | 59769 | 59778 | 51973 | 51957 | Noted 23/05/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3 | |||
| 51953 | 51970 | 59778 | 59769 | 51983 | 51961 | Noted 19/04/71 - in Leeds City2 | |||
| 51955 | 51979 | 59769 | 51967 | Noted 29/08/74 - on Hull Botanic Gardens depot2 | |||||
| 51955 | 59769 | 59779 | 51984 | 51508 | Noted 05/01/75 - on Botanic Gardens depot2 | ||||
| 51953 | 51973 | 51976 | 59769 | 51961 | Noted 17/08/78 - on 11:45 Hull - Liverpool4 | ||||
| 51958 | 51977 | 59769 | 52091 | Noted 09/06/19793 | |||||
| 51961 | 51982 | 59769 | 51967 | Noted 21/09/19793 | |||||
| 51967 | 59769 | 52089 | Noted 27/10/19793 | ||||||
| 51979 | 59237 | 59769 | 59771 | 59820 | Noted 07/01/1980 - at Hull Paragon, on a Bridlington service hauled by 37135 5 | ||||
| 52103 | 51969 | 59769 | 51952 | Noted 14/06/19803 | |||||
| 51957 | 59769 | 59235 | 52090 | Noted 06/09/19803 | |||||
| 52094 | 59823 | 59769 | 52099 | Noted 27/10/19803 | |||||
| 52094 | 59822 | 59769 | 52099 | Noted 01/11/19803 | |||||
| 52090 | 59827 | 59769 | 51966 | Noted 25/07/1982 - in Doncaster Works 5 | |||||
| 51951 | 59769 | 59839 | 51960 | Noted circa 19833 | |||||
| 52100 | 59769 | 59825 | 52087 | Noted circa 02/19833 | |||||
| 51960 | 59841 | 59769 | 51961 | Noted circa 03/19833 | |||||
| 52094 | 59769 | 59821 | 52099 | Noted circa 10/19833 | |||||
| 51966 | 59769 | 59842 | 51963 | Noted 18/02/19843 | |||||
| 51963 | 59769 | 59839 | 52093 | Noted circa 05/19843 |
Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Phil Shatford
5: Martin Lumley
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Trans-Pennine DMU nos. 51958, 51978, 59769, 59777, 51983 and (out of picture) 51956 is seen at Manchester Victoria having arrived on the 1250 from Hull (Sundays). Suthen Softy.
A Trans-Pennine DMU in Stalybridge station on 12 September 1977. The vehicles were recorded on the slide as 51956 + 51981 + 59769 + 51975 + 51958. Stuart Mackay Collection.