51375 Class 117 Driving Motor Second

Home Railway	Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway	Location History	Birmingham Railway Museum May 99-May 04
Current Location	Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway		Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway Jun 15-Present
Current Status	Stored
Current Livery	BR Green	Visited Railways	Chiltern Railways (Mainline) May 04-Jun 15
TRA Designation	5
Partner Vehicle(s)	None
Owner	Paul Webb
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Record Last Updated	22 September 2023
Preservation Modifications 51375 has been internally stripped out of its previous equipment and used as a stores vehicle for the Signal & Telegraph department.
Preservation Information 51375 latterly saw use as 117724 in the London area with Network SouthEast before withdrawal. 51375 was first preserved at the Birmingham Railway Museum, but was never returned to service there. In 2004 the vehicle was bought by Chiltern Railways for conversion to an intermediate power car for it's water jetting train. It was converted at LH Group Services, near Burton-on-Trent, and was completed in September 2004. The cab end was cut off and a gangway end built on, with roller shutter doors, in case the water containers ever had to be removed. 51375 therefore left preservation and returned to the mainline scene. As part of this train, 51375 was part of the last Class 117 set operational on the mainline, out lasting other vehicles by some ten years due to its continued use on the national network for Chiltern Railways. The vehicle was preserved for a second time in June 2015 after finally being dispensed with nearly 60 years after the vehicle was first built! Purchased by Paul Webb, 51375 was moved to the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railwayto become a Signal & Telegraph department stores van and also priovide spare parts for the Class 121 vehicles based on the railway. In March 2022, the previously mobile 51375 became a static vehicle after it was moved, via slewed track, onto an isolated "plinth" adjacant to Princes Risborough signalbox. 51375 remains isolated from the railway on its "plinth" at Princes Risborough, and remains in use as an S&T store.
Future Plans To be used as a stores van and mechanical spare parts donor.

	977992 on its track panel outside Princes Risborough station, 3/6/23. Chris Moxon

	977992 on its track panel outside Princes Risborough station. Note the flying pigs reference! 3/6/23. Chris Moxon

	977992 about to be slewed across onto its isolated "plinth" at Princes Risborough, 11/3/22. Roger Rowe

	977992 being towed through the platform at Princes Risborough on its way to its new "plinth", 11/3/22. Roger Rowe

	After a lengthy spell on the mainline in departmental service, 977992 is seen at Aylesbury after being sold back into preservation, 20/5/15. Haversham Shunter

	51375 just before the conversion, 17/7/04. Simon Edwards

	51375 at the Birmingham Railway Museum, 11/2/01. Stuart Mackay

	51375 stored at Tyseley, 29/5/00. Andy Cole