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Vehicle 59766


Class 124

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30605
Diagram: 573

Allocations

09/08/60 New to 55H (Neville Hill)
4w/e 25/03/67 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73Depot code changeBG
11/12/83 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51953 51972 59766 59775 51973 51954 As delivered to 55H - 9th August 1960
51961 51968 51971 59766 59775 59768 51980 51967 Noted 30/08/1964 - enhanced formation for a BR / RERPS Cumbrian Scenic tour
51957 51978 59766 51975 51960 Noted 30/08/1974 - at York1
51957 51984 59766 51982 51961 Noted 19/03/19772
51966 51971 59766 51982 51967 Noted 10/06/19772
52092 51984 59766 51951 Noted 27/10/19792
52088 51970 59766 51961 Noted 10/11/19792
51964 51982 59766 52099 Noted 11/04/19802
52102 59766 51975 51951 Noted 28/06/19802
52102 51975 59766 51951 Noted 19/07/19802
51962 59766 51969 51958 Noted 27/10/19802
52102 59766 59826 52093 Noted circa 04/19822
51963 59836 59766 52105 Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Picc2
51952 59836 59766 52100 Noted 19/08/82
51951 59838 59766 51962 Noted circa 09/19822
51961 59766 59826 52091 Noted circa 19832
52095 59820 59766 52090 Noted circa 02/19832
51961 59766 59826 52091 Noted circa 07/19832
52088 59766 59826 52099 Noted circa 09/19832

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 124 DMU at Leeds

20th March 1979

Swindon Trans-Pennine Trailer Second E59766 in Leeds station on March 20, 1979. Malcolm Clements.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: August 1976

A Trans-Pennine DMU set that included 51962, 59766, 51970, 51957 pauses at Huddersfield on a Hull - Liverpool working in August 1976. John Crooks.

DMU

Date: 15th June 1980

E51951 leads a Liverpool Lime Street - Hull special into Sheffield on June 15, 1980. The complete rake was E51951, E51975, E59718, E59766, E52102, M51859, M59718, M59723 and M51561. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 1982

A rare interior photo of a Class 124 TSL vehicle, in latter condition having been reupholstered in BR's "Trojan" moquette. Seen whilst working a Goole to Hull stopping train in 1982. Although we will never know for sure, Trojan moquette was unusual in these vehicles and observational records suggest it could be 59766. Tony Wade.

DMU

Date: 19th August 1982

A Swindon Inter-City set in the old Green Eyre platform at Lancaster Castle on the 19th August 1982, formed E52100, E59766, E59836 and E51952. Robert Frise.

DMU

Date: 16th June 1983

Swindon vehicles E51965, E59766, E59818, E52093 at Doncaster on 16-06-83. Vincent Haworth.