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-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
| 20/05/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |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 | |||||
| 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:
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:
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.
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.
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.