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Vehicle 51854

Class 115

BR Diagram 598

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30595
Diagram: 598

Allocations

06/02/60 New to 14A (Cricklewood)
Jun-60 Transferred to 9E (Trafford Park)
Nov-60 Transferred to 8H (Allerton)
Sep-63Depot code change8J
06/05/73Depot code changeAN
11/02/87 Transferred to TS (Tyseley)
10/07/92 Withdrawn from TS (Tyseley) RDTS

Modifications

circa Dec-72 - AWS fitted
Jul-87 - Gangway(s) fitted

Refurbished

At Derby Works dated 25/08/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51853 59715 59721 51854 As delivered to 14A - 6th February 1960
51854 59722 59716 51859 Noted 04/06/71 - at Allerton1
51854 59718 59723 51855 Noted 19/09/71 - at Crewe possibly subbing for a Class 304 if the current was switched off between Liverpool and Crewe1
AN803 51854 59760 51884 Noted 31/05/19822
51854 59720 51856 Noted 23/02/19832
51854 59751 51868 Noted 26/03/1984 - at Liverpool Lime Street2
51662 59762 51854 Noted circa 02/19862
51662 59762 51854 Noted 24/03/19862
51854 59724 51859 Noted 8th January 1987
TS405 51854 59726 59615 51142 Noted circa 07/19872
T405 51854 59726 59615 51143 Listed at TS - Jul-87
405 51854 59726 59615 51143 Noted 04/07/87 - at Norwich3
T405 51854 59726 59615 51143 Noted 22/08/87 - at Norwich3
T405 51854 59726 59615 51143 Noted circa 01/19882
T405 51854 59726 59615 51143 Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
T405 51854 59726 59615 51143 Noted circa 05/19882
T405 51854 59726 59615 51143 Noted circa 10/19882
T405 51854 59726 59615 51143 Noted 19/11/88 - on 11:16 Stourbridge Junction - New Street and 21.02 New Street - Stourbridge Junction
spare 51854 Listed at TS - 01/09/89
T405 51854 59615 59335 51143 Listed at TS - 01/12/89
51854 59615 59726 51143 Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot4
T405 51854 59615 59726 51143 Listed at TS - mid May-90
T405 51854 59615 59726 51143 Listed at TS - Jul-91
T405 51854 59615 59726 51143 Listed at TS - Aug-91
T405 51854 59615 59726 51144 Listed at TS - Dec-91
51854 59726 59615 51143 Noted 14/12/915
T405 51854 59629 59615 51143 Noted circa 02/19922
T405 51854 59615 59629 51143 Listed at TS - 02/07/92

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

Images:

Class 115 DMU at Liverpool Lime Street

8th April 1978

51854, one of the small number of class 115s allocated to Allerton depot, departing Liverpool Lime Street on a service for Manchester on 8/Apr/1978. Robert Chilton.

Class 115 DMU at Wigan

3rd January 1987

An Allerton Depot three-car Class 115 Suburban DMU, with Driving Motor Brake Second M51854 leading, was passing Cemetery Road at Wigan whilst working a Wigan North Western to Liverpool Lime Street service on January 3rd 1987. There was a small batch of these units allocated to Allerton, they were primarily used on the Cheshire Lines route between Liverpool and Manchester. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 115 DMU at Ely

26th September 1987

M51854 leads the 10.38 Yarmouth to Birmingham New Street seen near Ely west junction. The telegraph poles had gone by two years after, 26/09/87. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 13th June 1992

Set number: T405

T405 (power cars 51143 + 51854) in a siding at Four Oaks after a failure. Taken from T409, 13/6/92. Gazza Prescott.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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