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Vehicle 59795


Class 107

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30613
Diagram: 647

Allocations

04/02/61 New to 66C (Hamilton)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 67A (Corkerhill)
Mar-72 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
May-73Depot code changeHN
10/01/82 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
29/06/86 Stored U. AY (Ayr)
Nov-86 Reinstated AY (Ayr)
p/e 18/07/88 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
10/07/91 Withdrawn from ED (Eastfield) PXXZ

Notes

1st November 1989 - Seen in Strathclyde orange & black livery
1st November 1989 - Seen with aluminium window mountings

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 02/06/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51998 59795 52024 As delivered to 66C - 4th February 1961
52009 59795 52033 Noted 27/05/70 - at Glasgow Central1
140 52008 59795 52033 Listed at 67A - Aug-70
52008 59795 52024 Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings1
51998 59795 52016 Noted 28/03/1976 - at Haymarket 2
51998 59795 52024 Noted 04/04/1977 - 16:32 Glasgow Central to Largs via Paisley Canal2
144 51998 59795 52024 Listed at HN - mid-May-78
429 51989 59795 52023 Listed at HN - 01/02/81
52001 59795 52024 Noted 6th February 1982
429 51989 59795 52023 Noted 10/04/1982 - Hertfordshire RailTours The Ayr Restorer
107429 51989 59795 52023 Listed at AY - 13/06/82
51469 59795 52034 Noted circa 11/19833
107446 52007 59795 53268 Listed at AY - 17/06/84
107429 51989 59795 52023 Listed at AY - 25/03/85
107429 51989 59795 52023 Listed at Ayr - Summer 1986 - Strathclyde livery
107429 51989 59795 52023 Noted 11/10/1986 - at Falkland Yard3
107429 51989 59795 52023 Noted circa 01/19873
107429 51989 59795 52023 Listed at AY - 23/03/87
107429 51989 59795 52023 Noted 24/03/19873
107429 51989 59795 52023 Listed at AY - Jan-88
107429 51989 59795 52023 Listed at ED - circa August 1988
51989 59795 52023 Noted 1st November 1989
107729 51989 59795 52023 Noted circa 12/19893
107029 51989 59795 52023 Listed at ED - 08/10/90
spare 59795 Listed at ED - Jul-91

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Eddie Knorn

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 23rd January 1985

Set number: 107429

Derby-built Class 107 DMU set 107429 (presumably 52029 + 59795 + 51989) in Kilmarnock station on 23 January 1985. A Class 101 is on the left. Brian Daniels.

DMU

Date: 8th July 1987

Set number: 107429

Looking along the magnificent cantilever railway bridge which spans the Firth of Forth, between North Queensferry and South Queensferry, as a Strathclyde liveried Derby Heavyweight class 107 dmu 107429 (52023 + 59795 + 51989) passes us by with a north bound working on 8th July 1987. Known as the Forth Bridge the bridge is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is a symbol of Scotland. Andrew J Crowther.

DMU

Date: August 1987

Set number: 107429

Strathclyde red liveried class 107 set 429 (51989 + 59795 + 52023) heads over the viaduct on the approach to Dunfermline Lower station in August 1987. Murray Liston.

DMU

Date: August 1987

Set number: 107429

Class 107 (set 429, presumably 51989 + 59795 + 52023) Dunfermline August 1987. By this time it was a case of "anything goes". This class was never common on Fife Circle workings and definitely not in SPT orange livery but by then the corporate identity manual had more or less been abandoned. Alistair Ness.

DMU

Date: August 1987

Set number: 107429

Class 107 (set 429, presumably 52023 + 59795 + 51989) Dunfermline Aug 1987. By this time it was a case of "anything goes". This class was never common on Fife Circle workings and definitely not in SPT orange livery but by then the corporate identity manual had more or less been abandoned. Alistair Ness.

DMU

Date: August 1987

Set number: 107429

Dunfermline Derby. A Strathclyde "jaffa cake" liveried Derby class 107 set 107429 (presumably 51989 + 59795 + 52023) stops to drop off some passengers at Dunfermline (Lower) in August 1987. Murray Liston.

DMU

Date: March 1988

Set number: 107429

An orange stopper. Strathclyde orange liveried Derby class 107 429 has arrived at Waverley platform 12 in March 1988 with a stopping service from Glasgow Central via Shotts and will soon retrace its steps. This set formed of SC51989 + SC 59795 + SC52023 was withdrawn 3 years later like most of its classmates. Murray Liston.

DMU

Date: 1989

Set number: 107729

107729 (presumably 51989 + 59795 + 52023) heads out of Cumbernauld station circa late 1989. Brian Ward.

DMU

Date: May 1989

Set number: 107729

Class 107 set 107729 (presumably 52023 + 59795 + 51989) is an unusual visitor to Inverurie in May 1989. Norman Smart.

DMU

Date: May 1989

Set number: 107729

107729 (presumably 51989 + 59795 + 52023) waits in Inverurie station in May 1989. Norman Smart.

DMU

Date: 17th November 1989

Set number: 107729

107729 Sc51989+Sc59795+Sc52023 call at Stirling with the 12.45 Dunblane - Glasgow Queen St. terry eyres.