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Vehicle 52024


Class 107

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30612
Diagram: 649

Allocations

04/02/61 New to 66C (Hamilton)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 67A (Corkerhill)
Mar-72 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
May-73Depot code changeHN
02/08/82 Transferred to AY (Ayr) - HN closing
29/06/86 Stored U. AY (Ayr)
Nov-86 Reinstated AY (Ayr)
11/07/88 Transferred to ED (Eastfield)
07/07/91 Transferred to HA (Haymarket) PHAX
p/e 09/11/91 Sector Change to HA (Haymarket) PXXZ - (stored)
21/11/91 Withdrawn from HA (Haymarket) PXXZ

Notes

May 1989 - Seen with all luggage racks removed

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 26/04/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51998 59795 52024 As delivered to 66C - 4th February 1961
136 52004 59801 52024 Listed at 67A - Aug-70
52008 59795 52024 Noted 15/08/70 - in Kyle St sidings1
51989 52024 Noted 25/08/75 - on Corkerhill depot2
52002 59799 52024 Noted 01/09/1975 - at Glasgow Central3
51493 59792 52024 Noted 31/12/75 - in Glasgow Central1
144 51998 59548 52024 Noted 05/09/76 - on Hamilton depot2
51998 59795 52024 Noted 04/04/1977 - 16:32 Glasgow Central to Largs via Paisley Canal4
144 51998 59795 52024 Listed at HN - mid-May-78
436 51997 59784 52024 Listed at HN - 01/02/81
52001 59795 52024 Noted 6th February 1982
107436 51997 59784 52024 Listed at HN - 13/06/82
107447 52008 59798 52024 Noted circa 11/19835
107436 51997 59302 52024 Listed at AY - 17/06/84
107436 51997 59784 52024 Listed at AY - 25/03/85
107436 51997 59784 52024 Noted circa Jul-85 - now in SPTE livery
107436 51997 59784 52024 Noted 17/08/85
107436 51997 59784 52024 Noted circa 10/19855
107436 51997 59784 52024 Listed at Ayr - Summer 1986 - Strathclyde livery
107436 51997 59784 52024 Noted 11/10/1986 - at Falkland Yard5
107436 51997 59784 52024 Noted 17/01/19875
107436 51997 59784 52024 Listed at AY - 23/03/87
107436 51997 59784 52024 Noted 28/03/19875
107436 51997 59784 52024 Listed at AY - Jan-88
107436 51997 59784 52024 Listed at ED - circa August 1988
107740 52001 59783 52024 Noted circa 12/19895
107040 52001 59783 52024 Listed at ED - 08/10/90
107040 52001 59783 52024 Listed at HA - Jul-91
107040 52001 59783 52024 Listed at HA - Aug-91
107040 52001 59783 52024 Listed at HA - Nov-91

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

Images:

Class 107 DMU at Glasgow Central station

Unknown date

Set number: 107436

107 436 (presumably 52024 + 59784 + 51997) at the stops at Glasgow Central. Undated. Andrew McConnell.

Class 107 DMU at Glasgow Central

Unknown date

Set number: 107436

107 436 (presumably 52024 + 59784 + 51997) departing from Glasgow Central surrounded by other Strathclyde liveried units. Undated. Andrew McConnell.

Class 107 DMU at Edinburgh Waverley

1986

Set number: 107436

107436 arrives into Edinburgh Waverley in 1986. S Saunders.

Class 107 DMU at Glasgow Central

1st June 1989

Set number: 740

Class 107 set 107740, 52024, at Glasgow Central on 1st June 1989 David Slack.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: 107436

107 436 (presumably 51997 + 59784 + 52024) about to enter Johnstone station is almost certainly not on its way to Barrhead. It's heading down the Ayrshire Coast, circa 1987. Andrew McConnell.

DMU

Date: 28th March 1987

Set number: 107436

107436 (51997 + 59784 + 52024) passes Portobello on March 28, 1987, with the 10:22 Cardenden - North Berwick service. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: August 1987

Set number: 107436

A scene almost unrecognisable nowadays.Taken from what is now a tram track, a Strathclyde red livered 3 car DMU accelerates away from Haymarket with a Fife service one evening in August 1987. This comprises most of set 107436, but the rear car has been substituted with a Metro Cammell vehicle in place of 52024. Bunyan’s coal lorry can be seen on the left, and the Distillery is still in operation on the right. Murray Liston.

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: 107436

Class 107 DMU set 107436 (presumably 51997 + 59784 + 52024) in Kilmarnock station, date unknown. Mike Bunker.

DMU

Date: 20th February 1988

Set number: 107436

107436 (presumably 51997 + 59784 + 52024) approaches the terminus with the 14.45 Kilmarnock - Glasgow Central train on 20-02-1988. Gordon Thomson.