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Vehicle 51820


Class 110

Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30592
Diagram: 564

Allocations

22/09/61 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
Oct-61 On loan to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
3w/e 30/12/61 Ex-loan back to 56G (Hammerton Street)
Dec-67Depot code change55F
May-73Depot code changeHS
13/05/84 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill) - Hammerton Street closed
15/03/87 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 15/08/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51820 59704 51840 As delivered to 56G - 22nd September 1961
51820 59704 51840 Transfer to 50C - Oct-61 - on loan
51820 59704 51840 Transfer to 56G - 3w/e 30/12/61 - ex-loan
51820 59695 51840 Noted 07/10/67 - at Bradford Exchange1
51820 59707 51841 Noted 23/05/1969 - Leeds2
51820 59815 51840 Noted 17/10/1969 - Leeds, on 14.05 to Manchester Victoria2
51820 59574 51840 Noted 21/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.3
51820 59704 51836 Noted 28/10/71 - in Sheffield Midland4
51820 59703 51839 Noted 31/08/72 - in Manchester Victoria1
51820 59703 51839 Noted 01/09/72 - in Liverpool Exchange1
51820 59813 51833 Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot4
51820 59813 51833 Noted 29/03/1976 - at Leeds5
51820 59813 51833 Noted 08/05/76
51820 59813 51833 Noted 17/06/78 - at York6
51820 59813 51833 Noted 19/08/78 - at Bradford Exchange6
51820 59813 51833 Noted 22/08/78 - on 14:50 Leeds - Bradford Exchange7
51820 59702 52077 Noted 25/05/79 - at Newark on 19:12 ex-Cleethorpes
51820 59696 51834 Noted circa 10/19823
51820 59696 52081 Noted circa 10/19823
51820 59696 52081 Noted 13/10/1982 - Worked 07.53 Manchester Victoria to Leeds3
51820 59703 52084 Noted 20/01/1983 - at Clayton West, on 18:30 to Huddersfield - last train ever6
51820 59571 51843 Noted circa 06/19833
51820 52084 Noted 07/01/19843
51820 52084 Noted 31/03/1984 - on Hammerton Street depot6
51820 59812 52079 Noted 06/09/1985 - at Preston 6
51820 52079 Noted 22/02/1986 - at Leeds City 6
51820 52079 Noted circa 09/19863
51820 52079 Noted 09/10/19863

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Gerald Brown
5: Peter Wallwork
6: Martin Lumley
7: Phil Shatford

Images:

Class 110 DMU at Sheffield

Unknown date

E51820 is the rear vehicle on this BRC&W Class 110 set departing from Sheffield. Date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 110 DMU at Doncaster

18th June 1978

A Class 110 DMU with E51820 closest in platform 3 at Doncaster on 19 June 1978. MARK LEVING.

Class 110 DMU at Farington Curve

5th June 1982

Coming out of a thunderstorm on a very murky day, a 10-Car DMU formation was climbing Farington Curve, heading for home with a Blackpool North to Leeds service on June 5th 1982. The leading set is a three-car Class 110 with E51820 leading. Behind the Calder Valley is a four-car Metro-Cammell Class 111, with a three-car Class 111 at the rear. The 110 units were daily visitors to Preston and Blackpool during the 1970's and the early 1980's on the daily Leeds-Blackpool North and return service that ran via Copy Pit and Blackburn. During weekdays a three-car set would suffice, but on Summer Saturdays the train would be formed of additional units as seen in this view. Martyn Hilbert.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 22nd January 1983

Class 110 52084 + 59703 + 51820 at Clayton West, leading 51822 + 59710 + 51840, with the 12.50 departure bound for Huddersfield, on 22 January 1983 - the last day of passenger services on the branch. Rob Paterson.

DMU

Date: 22nd January 1983

Crowds gather at the Clayton West branch terminus following the arrival of one of the trains on the final day of passenger services from Huddersfield, Saturday 22nd January 1983. The vehicles are 51840 + 59710 + 51822 and 51820 + 59703 + 52084. Andrew Walker.

DMU

Date: 25th September 1985

Its 17:03 and 52079+59812+51820 are awaiting departure time from Liverpool Lime Street presumably with a service to Leeds on Wednesday 25th September 1985. Photo by the late Rob Simpson Ian Hazlehurst.

DMU

Date: unknown

The Stourton Saloon 975664 / 975637 is seen in the company of Class 110 51820 at York. Undated. Tom Clift.