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<- 51972 | 51973 | 51974 ->

Vehicle 51973 / 59841


Class 124

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30604
Diagram: 579

Allocations

09/08/60 New to 55H (Neville Hill)
4w/e 25/03/67 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73Depot code changeBG
20/05/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

51973 - original number
59841 - from p/e 25/10/81 (MBS to TBS conversion)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51953 51972 59766 59775 51973 51954 As delivered to 55H - 9th August 1960
51956 51978 59770 59778 51973 51963 Noted 05/01/75 - on Botanic Gardens depot1
51954 51973 59773 51979 51959 Noted 10/01/76 - at Brough2
50256 59531 51973 59772 51974 51955 Noted 04/01/78
51953 51973 51976 59769 51961 Noted 17/08/78 - on 11:45 Hull - Liverpool3
52098 51973 59821 52099 Noted 12/04/19794
51955 59819 51973 51953 Noted 01/11/19804
51960 51973 59236 51966 Noted 02/05/81 - on 13.13 Hull – Manchester3
51957 51973 59236 51966 Noted 05/05/1981 - at Hull5
51960 59841 59769 51961 Noted circa 03/19834
51954 59841 59827 52104 Noted circa 09/19834
51966 59238 59841 52091 Noted circa 05/19844

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Phil Shatford
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Peter Wallwork

Images:

Class 124 DMU at Leeds

20th March 1979

Class 124 Motor Brake Second E51973 in Leeds station on March 20, 1979. Note the stretcher window. Malcolm Clements.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 18th April 1962

E51956, 51973, 59776, 59767, 51972 and 51955 approaching Neville Hill East with a Hull to Liverpool Lime Street train 18th April 1962. Keith Long.

DMU

Date: 23rd December 1974

An instamatic shot of a Trans-Pennine DMU seen heading east leaving Stalybridge about to head over (or through) the Pennines with the 1310 Liverpool Lime St to Hull service on 23rd December 1973. From the rear are E51960, E51973, E59778 and E59770. Suthen Softy.

DMU

Date: 5th November 1983

A Class 124 / 123 hybrid set at Sheffield on 5 November 1983 with a Manchester - Cleethorpes service, formed 51954 + 59841 + 59768 + 52100. Stuart Mackay Collection.