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Vehicle 51106

Class 119

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30422
Diagram: 541

Allocations

Dec-59	New to	86C (Cardiff Canton)
Jan-61	Depot code change	88A
by Jun-62	Transferred to	82B (Bristol Marsh Junction)
circa Jun-64	Transferred to	82A (Bristol Bath Road)
3w/e 03/04/71	Transferred to	84A (Laira)
May-73	Depot code change	LA
29/02/76	Transferred to	RG (Reading)
p/e 24/02/88	Withdrawn from	RG (Reading)

Modifications

p/e 13/05/72 - Dual AWS fitted
p/e 24/07/76 - Leyland engines fitted
p/e 02/04/77 - WR AWS removed

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51078	59436	51106		As delivered to 86C - December 1959
	51078	7804	59436	51106	Noted 8th August 1963
	51078	59436	51106		Noted 14/05/66 - R.C.T.S. Central Wales Scenic Tour with with 50656 + 59265 + 50723
	51078	59436	51106		Noted circa Nov-67 - in blue grey with full yellow ends
537	51078	59436	51106		Noted Nov-68 - now in blue/grey
LA508	51078	59436	51106		Listed at Laira - circa Apr-71 - ex-BL537
	51078	59436	51106		Transfer to 84A - 3w/e 03/04/71
	51078	59436	51106		Noted 22/04/73 - on 1415 Paignton-Newton Abbot
	51078	59436	51106		Noted 04/07/1973 - at Exeter¹
	51078	59436	51106		Noted 08/1974 - at Exeter St Davids²
L587	51078	59436	51106		Listed at RG - 01/05/1976
L587	51078	59436	51106		Noted 05/08/76 - on 5Z55 0145 Reading TMD-Canton CS ECS
L587	51078	59436	51106		Noted 08/08/1976 - 12:20 Cardiff Central to Bristol Temple Meads with set B803²
L587	51078	59436	51106		Noted 25/09/1976 - Oxford Railway Society Bristol Area Branch Line Tour L586 + L587 51077-59420-51105 + 51078-59436-51106
L587	51078	59436	51106		Noted 05/1977 - Oxford Didcot Reading area³
L587	51078	59436	51106		Noted 05/1977 - Oxford Didcot Reading area³
	51078	59436	51106		Noted 29th October 1977
L587	51078	59436	51106		Listed at RG - 31st December 1977
L587	51078	59436	51106		Noted 26/01/1978 - At Oxford Station³
L587	51078	59543	51106		Noted 17/09/1978 - Reading³
L587	51078	59436	51106		Listed at RG - 03/03/80
L587	51078	59436	51106		Listed at RG - 15/12/1982
L587	51078	59436	51106		Listed at RG - 01/01/85
L587	51078	59436	51106		Noted circa 04/1986⁴
L587	51078	59436	51106		Listed at Reading - Summer 1986
L587	51078	59436	51106		Noted 13/09/1986⁴
L587	51078	59543	51106		Noted circa 08/1987⁴
L587	51078	59543	51106		Listed at RG - Aug-87

Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Shayne Lewis
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

circa 1971

Set number: P587

51106 (P587) waits for departure at Okehampton station circa 1971/2. P587 transferred to Devon in 1971 and Okehampton station closed in 1972, although it is soon to reopen. The driver looks out of the window at the poster board stripped of posters and the smashed windows on the platform and the secondman reads his paper, whilst waiting for the 'right-away'. The destination blind is showing the bottom half of Lawrence Hill and the top half of Maiden Newton, reflective of the fact it had recently transferred from Bristol. Collection of Greg Scott.

8th March 1980

Set number: L587

Class 119 DMMU passes through Betchworth non-stop on a Gatwick-Reading service on 8 March 1980. Tony Watson.

1988

Set number: L587

Class 119 DMU set L587 (presumably 51106 + 59436 + 51078) with what seems to be a Class 121 DTS attaches at Swindon. The slide process date was sometime in 1988. Stuart Mackay Collection.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 14th May 1966

The R.C.T.S. DMU Central Wales Scenic Tour at Llandovery on 14 May 1966. The Six Bells website lists the vehicles as DMU 50723 + 59265 + 50656 and 51078 + 59436 + 51106, Swindon and GRC&W Cross-Country sets. Norman Thomas courtesy S V Blencowe collection.

Date: 14th May 1966

Cross-Country DMUs of GRC&W and Swindon types with the R.C.T.S. DMU Central Wales Scenic Tour at Llanwrtyd Wells on 14 May 1966. The Six Bells website lists the vehicles as DMU 50723 + 59265 + 50656 and 51106 + 59436 + 51078 (closest). Norman Thomas courtesy S V Blencowe collection.

Date: 14th May 1966

The RCTS Central Wales Scenic Tour at Llandeilo on 14 May 1966. M50723 is closest, the Six Bells Junction website lists the other Swindon vehicles as 59265 + 50656 and the Gloucester as 51106 + 59436 + 51078. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 18th October 1975

Set number: P587

Two Class 119 sets at Liskeard on 18 October 1975. The closest set, P587 (presumably W51078 + W59436 + W51106) would move to Reading the following February where it would remain until withdrawal. George Woods.

Date: 28th April 1979

Set number: L587

Class 119 DMU set L587 (presumably 51078 + 59436 + 51106) with a Paddington - Banbury service after arriving at Banbury on 28 April 1979. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: unknown

Set number: L587

Passing Earlswood is class 119 set L587, presumably 51078 + 59436 + 51106. Ian Buck.

Date: early 1980s

Set number: L587

A class 119 D.M.U. (set L587, presumably 51078 + 59436 + 51106) on a Swindon to Cheltenham service joins the main line at Standish Junction in the early 1980s. Curly42.

Date: March 1983

Set number: L587

Class 119 set L587 (presumably 51078 + 59436 + 51106) is seen at Haresfield (Glos.) in May 1983. Mike Cooper.

Date: 28th October 1990

M54184 on top of W51106 and M53443 at Vic Berry's, 28-10-90. Kevin Dowd.

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