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Vehicle 52032 / 977227


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

18/03/61 New to 66C (Hamilton)
3w/e 02/07/66 Transferred to 67A (Corkerhill)
Mar-72 Transferred to 67C (Ayr)
06/05/73Depot code changeAY
30/04/78 Transferred to HN (Hamilton)
02/08/82 Transferred to AY (Ayr) - HN closing
Jan-84 Stored U. AY (Ayr) - AY fire victim
circa Mar-84 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)
May-84 To departmental stock HQ (Headquarters)
circa Jan-86 Withdrawn from HQ (Headquarters)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

52032 - original number
977227 - from May-84 (departmental stock)

Department Use as RDB977227

Laboratory coach - conversion abandoned From 5/84 to 1987.

Refurbished

At Glasgow Works dated 16/12/1978 released in blue/grey livery

52032 was involved in the following incident:


Distorted DMU at Ayr depot

02/01/84 - Ayr depot

Fire involving Class 101 / Class 107

A fire at the depot, thought to be caused by vandalism, destroyed several DMU vehicles. More Details.


Disposal

Scrapped by Bird Group, Long Marston

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52006 59803 52032 As delivered to 66C - 18th March 1961
137 52005 59807 52032 Listed at 67A - Aug-70
52010 59807 52032 Noted 06/04/72 - on Ayr depot1
52005 59805 52032 Noted 25/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central2
126 52007 59804 52032 Noted 25/08/75 - in Ayr station3
52010 59807 52032 Noted 20/03/76 - in Glasgow Central1
52004 59806 52032 Transfer to HN - 4w/e 27/05/78
152 52006 59803 52032 Listed at HN - mid-May-78
51990 59806 52032 Noted 7th January 1981
443 52004 59805 52032 Listed at HN - 01/02/81
107443 52004 59805 52032 Listed at HN - 13/06/82
51996 59807 52032 Noted circa 11/19834

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

Images:

Class 107 DMU at Glasgow Central

24th January 1981

Set number: 150

The driver shields his eyes from the low winter sun as Hamilton based class 107 DMS Sc52032 leads 14:57 to Edinburgh out of Glasgow Central on24th January 1981. A class 303 working a Cathcart Circle service can be seen behind. Note the old Corkerhill allocation number 132 and later set number 150 on the 107 DMS. This seemed to be a spare vehicle that floated between sets and very soon after in would be in set 443 when the 4xx series was introduced. The Central to Edinburgh services could hardly be described as Inter-City with a pedestrian pace round the south. Sc52032 was withdrawn from Ayr depot around March 1984 having been a victim of the depot fire in the January. The by then closed store Paisleys, a once well known Glasgow tailors and outfitters can be seen behind. It closed in 1979 with the building demolished in 1993. A Jurys Inn Hotel now occupies the site. Bruce Galloway.

Class 107 DMU at Elderslie

15th June 1983

Driving Motor Brake 2nd (formerly Driving Motor Brake Composite) Sc52032 leads a three car Class 107 through Elderslie with the 10:00 service from Glasgow Central to Ayr on Wednesday 15th June 1983. This view is looking east from the footbridge which once gave access to the station. The station site is indicated by the way the running lines deviate either side of the no longer extant island platforms in the foreground. The lines leading straight on beyond Elderslie No 1 box head towards Paisley Gilmour Street and Glasgow Central whilst the lines coming in from the right are the remnants of the Paisley Canal line, closed a few months previously. The signal arm on the eastbound line giving access to the Paisley Canal line has already been removed and presumably the army of permanent way staff on the right is indulging in a further bout of rationalisation. Brian McDevitt.

Class 107 DMU at Ayr depot

15th February 1984

Class 107 DMS Sc52032 was a victim of a fire at Ayr depot in the early hours of 2 January 1984. It is seen at the depot on February 15, 1984, now withdrawn and stripped of underframe components. Despite the condition, it moved to the Derby RTC for conversion to a lab unit which was later abandoned. Hamish Stevenson.