Vehicle 51163
Class 125
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Orange Star
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Rolls Royce 238hp
Transmission: Hydraulic
Lot Number: 30464
Diagram: 595
Allocations
| 13/02/59 | New to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 5w/e 31/05/69 | Transferred to | 34G (Finsbury Park) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | FP | |
| 31/12/76 | Withdrawn from | FP (Finsbury Park) |
Notes
01/02/78 - withdrawn Class 125 vehicles at March: 50991, 50994, 50995, 51000, 51001, 51004, 51006, 51155, 51160, 51161, 51163, 51166, 51169, 51173, 59449, 59454, 59457, 59458, 59459, 59461, 59463, 59465, 59466, 59467, 59468
Mar-81 - 51001 / 51006 / 51163 / 51169 / 51173 noted in Doncaster Works awaiting scrapping.
Disposal
Scrapped by BR, Doncaster Works
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50997 | 59458 | 51163 | As delivered to 30A - 13th February 1959 | ||||||
| 51163 | 59457 | 50997 | Noted 22/08/1972 - at Kings Cross1 | ||||||
| 51163 | 59466 | 50998 | Noted 23/06/1973 - at Kings Cross1 | ||||||
| 51163 | 59462 | 50994 | Noted 05/1975 - at Kings Cross 1 | ||||||
| 51163 | 59455 | 50988 | Noted 12/09/1975 - at Finsbury Park1 | ||||||
| 51163 | 59467 | 51003 | Noted 12/09/76 - at Finsbury Park2 |
Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Leonard Rogers
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 22nd June 1978
A number of Class 125 DMU vehicles in March yard on 22 June 1978. These had been withdrawn from Finsbury Park (FP) depot a few months earlier, presumably following the electrification of the suburban lines out of Kings Cross, and the introduction of new Class 313 emus. The vehicles pictured were scrapped at Doncaster Works, Booths (Rotherham) or Birds (Long Marston). I think some of these vehicles were at March for a few years, as I saw a report that 5 of the driving trailers present (51001/51004/51006/51163/51169/51173) were in Doncaster Works awaiting scrapping in March 1981. A full list of the other stock present was: 50991/50994/50995/51155/51160 (all five seen or just seen in the image), 59449/59454/59457/59458/59459/59461/59463/59465/59467/59468. 59468 is nearest the camera in my photo. This had been new, from Derby Works in September 1959 and was withdrawn (from FP) in January 1977. 59468 was scrapped at Booths. Lewis Bevan.