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Vehicle 59803


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

18/03/61 New to 66C (Hamilton)
3w/e 02/07/66 Transferred to 67A (Corkerhill)
Mar-72 Transferred to 67C (Ayr)
06/05/73Depot code changeAY
30/04/78 Transferred to HN (Hamilton)
10/01/82 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
29/06/86 Stored U. AY (Ayr)
p/e 23/11/86 Reinstated AY (Ayr)
p/e 18/07/88 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
07/07/91 Transferred to HA (Haymarket) PHAX
p/e 09/11/91 Sector Change to HA (Haymarket) PXXZ - (stored)
21/11/91 Withdrawn from HA (Haymarket) PXXZ

Notes

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

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 21/06/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52006 59803 52032 As delivered to 66C - 18th March 1961
133 52001 59803 52030 Listed at 67A - Aug-70
52005 59803 52023 Noted 15/08/70 - at Corkerhill1
52004 59803 52031 Noted 03/08/1972 - at Ayr depot2
52004 59803 52034 Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central3
52005 59803 52033 Transfer to HN - 30/04/78
152 52006 59803 52032 Listed at HN - mid-May-78
52022 59803 51997 Noted 06/10/1979 - M. & G.N. Joint Railway Society The Scotsman Railtour
426 51986 59803 52018 Listed at HN - 01/02/81
107426 51986 59803 52018 Listed at AY - 13/06/82
107434 51994 59803 52021 Noted circa 11/19834
spare 59803 Listed at AY - 17/06/84
107426 51986 59803 52018 Noted January 1985
107426 51986 59803 52018 Listed at AY - 25/03/85
51999 59803 52030 Noted 12th July 1985
51999 59803 52030 Noted 30th July 1985
107426 51986 59803 52018 Listed at Ayr - Summer 1986 - Strathclyde livery
107426 51986 59803 52018 Noted 11/10/1986 - at Falkland Yard4
107426 51986 59803 52018 Noted 19/03/19874
107426 51986 59803 52018 Listed at AY - 23/03/87
107426 51986 59803 52018 Noted 13/05/19874
107426 51986 59803 52018 Listed at AY - Jan-88
107426 51986 59803 52018 Listed at ED - circa August 1988
107726 51986 59803 52018 Noted 29th November 1988
51986 59803 52018 Noted 1st November 1989
107726 51986 59803 52018 Noted circa 12/19894
107026 51986 59803 52018 Listed at ED - 08/10/90
107026 51986 59803 52018 Noted circa 02/19914
107026 51986 59803 52018 Listed at HA - Jul-91
107026 51986 59803 52023 Listed at HA - Aug-91
107026 51986 59803 52023 Listed at HA - Nov-91

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 1987

Set number: 107426

Class 107 DMU set 107426 (presumably 52018 + 59803 + 51986) heads away from Glasgow Central circa summer 1987. Brian Ward.

DMU

Date: 27th September 1988

Set number: 107426

Class 107 set 426 (52018 closest, presumably with 59803 + 51986) in Glasgow Queen Street on September 27, 1988. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 2nd October 1988

DMU vehicles 52018, 59803, 51986 and 53171 on Haymarket depot, 2 October 1988. Keith Miller.

DMU

Date: circa November 1988

Set number: 107726

Class 107 DMU set 107726 (51986 + 59803 + 52018) in Haymarket station, the slide process date was November 1988. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: circa November 1988

Set number: 107726

Class 107 DMU set 107726 (presumably 51986 + 59803 + 52018) heads away from Edinburgh Waverley through Princes St Gardens. The slide process date was November 1988. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 11th July 1989

Set number: 107726

Set 107 726 (51986/59803/52018) departs Glasgow Central on 11/7/89, with 52018 leading. It is forming the 12.45 to East Kilbride. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: 31st March 1990

Set number: 107726

In the depths of Waverley station, at around 17.55 on a late March afternoon, 51986 leads 107 726 into the old platform 1 (now number 2), to form the 17.57 to Dunbar. The date is 31/3/90 and the set is passing 43055 at the head of the much-delayed 17.30 to KX at platform 19. The other cars in the set will presumably be 59803 and 52018. The area over which the DMU is passing is nowadays occupied by the modern platforms 20 and 1. Leonard Rogers.

DMU

Date: 21st May 1990

Set number: 107726

107726 (presumably 51986 + 59803 + 52018) in Glasgow Queen Street Station on May 21, 1990. Colin Brooks.

DMU

Date: 9th June 1990

Set number: 107726

Class 107 set 107726 (presumably 52018 + 59803 + 51986) departing Glasgow Queen Street on 9 June 1990. Stuart Mackay Collection.