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Vehicle 51012


Class 126

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: White Circle
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30413
Diagram: 551

Allocations

18/04/59 New to 67C (Ayr)
06/05/73Depot code changeAY
17/05/82 Stored S. AY (Ayr)
05/06/82 Stored U. AY (Ayr)
11/08/82 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)

Notes

16/05/59 - A number of odd Class 126 vehicle had arrived in Scotland from Swindon and in some cases have been marshalled into Edinburgh-Glasgow sets. Five vehicles, including 51012, 51013, 59402 and 59402, were in Lugton goods yard on 16th May 1959.

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51042 59410 51012 Noted 27/02/60
51043 59394 51012 Noted 11/03/60
51031 59411 51012 Noted 16/04/60
51034 59406 51012 Noted 09/07/60
51040 59409 51012 Noted 06/12/60
51038 59395 51012 Noted 17/01/61
51036 59408 51012 Noted 09/03/61
51036 59405 51012 Noted 23/03/61
51036 59408 51012 Noted 30/03/61
51031 59402 51012 Noted 01/07/61
51030 59408 51012 Noted 06/07/61
162 51041 59391 51012 Listed at 67C - Aug-70
51040 59399 51012 Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings1
51031 59407 51012 Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings1
51045 59407 51012 Noted 06/04/72 - on Ayr depot1
51046 59397 51012 Noted 25/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central2
120 51050 59403 51012 Noted 05/09/73 - at Ayr3
51046 59396 51012 Noted 07/04/1975 - 07:55 Ayr to Glasgow Central4
51050 59397 51012 Noted 31/12/75 - in Glasgow Central1
51044 59404 51012 Noted 09/09/76 - at Stranraer3
403 51033 59396 51012 Listed at AY - 01/02/81
126413 51043 59407 51012 Noted unknown date
126414 51044 59412 51012 Listed at AY - 01/04/82

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork

Images:

Class 126 DMU at Dundee

4th July 1959

Sc51012 at the front of Swindon-Inter-City set on an excursion, possibly to Aberdeen, at Dundee on July 4th, 1959. The vehicle had been working with the 79xxx vehicles at Leith, hence the 'A' headcodes. This type of gangway cover, common on the 79xxx vehicles, was unusual on the 5xxxx vehicles. George Bett.

Class 126 DMU at Dundee

4th July 1959

Sc51012 at the front of Swindon-Inter-City set on an excursion, possibly to Aberdeen, at Dundee on July 4th, 1959. The vehicle had been working with the 79xxx vehicles at Leith, hence the 'A' headcodes. This type of gangway cover, common on the 79xxx vehicles, was unusual on the 5xxxx vehicles. George Bett.

Class 126 DMU at Barassie

8th April 1981

8 over at the clubhouse. Watched by a couple of local lads, an early evening Glasgow to Ayr service slows to a halt at Barassie Junction. The 8 car rake is led by Swindon class 126 DMS Sc51012. The golf club car park seems well filled, its a fine spring evening after all. 8th April 1981. Bruce Galloway.

Class 126 DMU at Kyle Street Ayr

Unknown date

SC51012 in Kyle Street Sidings - a stabling point beside Ayr station - in the early 1980s. Ian MacDonald.

Class 126 DMU at Falkland Yard

August 1982

51012 awaits its fate after withdrawal. The boarded up windows were a sign it was an asbestos contaminated vehicle. At Falkland Yard in August 1982. Andrew McConnell.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 1st August 1982

Set number: 126406

A six-car Class 126 formation in Largs station on August 1st, 1982, with Sc51036 closest. A Class 107 is stabled on the right with Sc51012 closest. John Carter.