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Set 455


These formations have been noted:

51344 59496 51386 Listed at Southall - Apr-68 - was S321, non-gangwayed set
51344 59496 59538 51386 Noted circa Jan-70 - Reading set
51294 59796 53598 Noted 9th July 1986
53210 59090 53598 Listed at Ayr - August 1986
51455 51538 Formed at NL 2w/e 13/03/88
51455 51538 Listed at NL - Feb-89
Class 104 DMU at Ayr depot

1986

Class 104 (presumably 53598), 101 and 120 DMU vehicles await maintenance inside Ayr Shed in 1986. Andrew McConnell.

Class 104 DMU at Shotts

1986

Hybrid DMU set 455 (53598 + 59090 + 53210) departs from Shotts station with the 09:32 Glasgow Central - Edinburgh service on an unknown date in 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 104 DMU at Prestwick

30th August 1986

BRCW Class 104 DMBS 53598 is the trailing power car in mixed Set 455 seen here leaving Prestwick station in August 1986. The wires are in place for the Ayrshire electrification which would go live the following month. The centre car is a Metro-Cammel vehicle (59090). A typically mixed set in the final fling of the DMU in Scotland. Andrew McConnell.

Class 104 DMU at Ayr

September 1986

Indian summer of the DMU in Ayrshire. Set 455 (presumably 53598 + 59090 + 53210) works with a Class 120 set at Ayr station in September 1986. Andrew McConnell.

Class 104 DMU at March

14th November 1987

Class 104 53598 with two Class 120 sets (one is 522) on their way to Snailwell. Seen at 09:05 on Saturday 14th November 1987 at March. Colin Brooks.


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