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Vehicle 51961


Class 124

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30603
Diagram: 577

Allocations

25/10/60 New to 55H (Neville Hill)
4w/e 25/03/67 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73Depot code changeBG
15/04/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Modifications

circa May-81 - Headlamp fitted

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51961 51978 59770 59779 51979 51962 As delivered to 55H - 25th October 1960
51961 51968 51971 59766 59775 59768 51980 51967 Noted 30/08/1964 - enhanced formation for a BR / RERPS Cumbrian Scenic tour
51953 51970 59778 59769 51983 51961 Noted 19/04/71 - in Leeds City1
51961 51981 59773 59775 51980 51963 Noted 29/08/74 - on Hull Botanic Gardens depot1
50560 51959 59771 59777 51982 51961 Noted 16/09/75 - at Hull2
51955 51981 59765 51968 51961 Noted 28/02/76 - at York1
51957 51984 59766 51982 51961 Noted 19/03/19773
51961 51978 59768 51977 51964 Noted 09/06/19773
51953 51973 51976 59769 51961 Noted 17/08/78 - on 11:45 Hull - Liverpool4
51952 59768 51984 51961 Noted 01/09/19793
51961 51982 59769 51967 Noted 21/09/19793
52088 51970 59766 51961 Noted 10/11/19793
51961 51981 59237 51964 Noted 27/10/19803
51961 59768 51982 52099 Noted 05/05/1981 - at Hull was to form 14:50 to Leeds but was failed before departure, replaced by 52090, 59238, 59821 and 521045
51962 59836 59823 51961 Noted circa 04/19823
51961 59770 59825 52090 Noted circa 10/19823
51961 59766 59826 52091 Noted circa 19833
51954 59837 59235 51961 Noted circa 02/19833
51960 59841 59769 51961 Noted circa 03/19833
51961 59766 59826 52091 Noted circa 07/19833
51961 59818 59770 52089 Noted circa 09/19833
51961 59823 59235 52094 Noted 16/11/1983 - at Sheffield3
51961 59834 59827 52097 Noted 03/01/1984 - at Manchester Picc3

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

Images:

Class 124 DMU at Hull

9th January 1977

A Swindon Trans-Pennine Class 124 departing Hull station on 09/01/1977 with car E51961 nearest the camera. To the right can be seen Metro-Cammell Mk1 Pullman stock in the reverse grey & blue livery they carried in later years. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 124 DMU at Manchester Victoria

July 1978

A Swindon DMU in Manchester (Victoria) on a Liverpool (Lime St) - Leeds (City) - Hull (Paragon) service, 07/78. The closest car - with the headlamp, one wiper and no electrification flash is likely E51961. Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 124 DMU at Manchester Victoria

July 1978

A Swindon DMU in Manchester (Victoria) on a Liverpool (Lime St) - Leeds (City) - Hull (Paragon) service, 07/78. The closest car - with the headlamp, one wiper and no electrification flash is likely E51961. Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 124 DMU at York

1979

A Trans-Pennine set at York station in 1979 on the 11:00 am Sundays only Hull to Leeds via York service. The leading power car with the headlight, single wiper and angled electrification flash suggests it is E51961. Mike Hudson.

Class 124 DMU at Huddersfield

20th March 1979

E51961 leads a Trans-Pennins set into Huddersfield station on the 20th March 1979. Malcolm Clements.

Class 124 DMU at Manchester Piccadilly

August 1982

BR (Swindon) "Trans Pennine" Class 124 E51961 departing Manchester (Piccadilly) on a service to Stalybridge - Huddersfield - Leeds (City), 08/82. Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 124 DMU at Manchester Piccadilly

August 1982

BR (Swindon) "Trans Pennine" Class 124 E51961 at Manchester (Piccadilly) awaiting to depart on a service to Stalybridge - Huddersfield - Leeds (City), 08/82. A comment by "45125" on this image on flickr notes "The "plated" head code panel is actually plywood and the lamp fittings came from withdrawn Birminghams.". Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 124 DMU at Manchester Piccadilly

August 1982

A Hybrid BR (Swindon) Trans Pennine/Inter City Class 124/123 4-car dmu led by E51961 departs Manchester (Piccadilly) on a Leeds (City) service, 08/82. Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 124 DMU at Manchester Piccadilly

August 1982

A Hybrid BR (Swindon) Trans Pennine/Inter City Class 124/123 4-car dmu with E51961 closest in Manchester (Piccadilly) on a Leeds (City) service, 08/82. Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 124 DMU at Doncaster

9th March 1983

Class 124 Trans-Pennine 4-car unit led by DMC E51961 pauses at Doncaster, Sunday 9th March 1983 Iain Reid.

Class 124 DMU at Doncaster

9th March 1983

One of the Swindon-built Trans-Pennine units stands at Doncaster. Comparing this with image 5272 suggests this taken on Sunday 9th March 1983 and has 51961 at the front. Stuart Pearce.

Class 124 DMU at Bamford

20th August 1983

The semaphores are still in operation at Bamford as this Trans-Pennine unit led by E51961 makes its way through the Hope Valley en route to Manchester Piccadilly in the summer of 1983. Andrew Walker.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa 1982

Two Trans-Pennine DMUs in Doncaster station at 7.30pm one evening, with a queue of people waiting to board the set in platform 4. There were no details with this transparency. The condition of the DMC on the left - with the missing white dots and the offset lamp bracket on the right - matches E51958 circa 1982. The DMC on the right with the plated headcode and headlamp matches E51961 at this time. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 2nd September 1983

Set number: 52

E51952 has a freshly painted front end when seen at Brough on the rear of a Trans-Pennine service to Hull on 2nd September 1983. The repainting had been done at BG after a minor bump. The window rubbers, normally left black, were painted as they had a fair amount of paint on them already. The unit has the number "52" hand-painted on the front, 51961 and 51964 also had numbers painted on the front end. It has had red bulbs installed in the old headcode panel, presumably to prevent damage to the nicely painted lamp-brackets! Syd Young.