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Vehicle 51981 / 59833


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

12/11/60 New to 55H (Neville Hill)
4w/e 25/03/67 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73Depot code changeBG
28/08/83 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Notes

Mar-81 - Had "Rebuilt Hull March '81" painted on the solebar.

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

51981 - original number
59833 - from Mar-81 (MBS to TBS conversion)

Modifications

Mar-81 - Engines removed

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51963 51980 59771 59780 51981 51964 As delivered to 55H - 12th November 1960
51954 51981 59778 59769 51976 Noted 31/12/69 - in Liverpool Lime Street, other DMC not recorded1
51959 51984 59767 51981 51964 Noted 13/04/71 - in Manchester Victoria1
51954 51983 59772 51981 51959 Noted 11/08/1974 - at Leeds City2
51961 51981 59773 59775 51980 51963 Noted 29/08/74 - on Hull Botanic Gardens depot1
51955 51981 59773 51971 51956 Noted 11/1974 - at Leeds 2
51955 51981 59765 51968 51961 Noted 28/02/76 - at York1
51967 51975 59770 51981 51955 Noted 19/03/19773
51954 51981 59820 52105 Noted 14/07/19793
51962 51981 59824 52097 Noted 15/09/19793
51962 59765 51981 51960 Noted 05/04/19803
51962 59765 51981 51960 Noted 07/04/19803
51962 59765 51981 51960 Noted 08/04/19803
51962 59765 51981 51960 Noted 11/04/19803
51962 59239 51981 51960 Noted 18/04/19803
51961 51981 59237 51964 Noted 27/10/19803
52103 59833 59827 51957 Noted circa 04/19823

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Eddie Knorn

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 11th March 1978

A Swindon Trans-Pennine set arrives into Leeds station on the 11 March 1978 formed of E51963 (rear, closest) + E59767 + E51981 + E51953. Ian Francis.

DMU

Date: 11th May 1979

A Swindon-built Class 124 ‘Trans-Pennine’ DMU consisting of 51962, 51981, 59772 and 51967 travelling south from Blackpool South towards Kirkham & Wesham approaching Highbury Road bridge, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea. Friday evening 11 May 1979. Ian 10B.

DMU

Date: 11th May 1979

British Rail Class 124 ‘Trans-Pennine’ DMU consisting of 51962, 51981, 59772 and 51967 approaching Highbury Road bridge, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea while working a Manchester Victoria – Blackpool South service on Friday evening 11 May 1979, the last day that these “posh” units operated on the Blackpool South line. Ian 10B.

DMU

Date: 18th April 1981

A mixed rake of Swindon-built Class 123 and 124 vehicles at Grimsby Town on April 18 1981, visible being 51954, 59827 and 59833. John Carter.