Railway Herald
Class 131 DMLV No. 55015 is stabled on Haymarket MPD, Edinburgh on 22nd January 1978. She was built during 1958 by the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company as a Class 122 single unit passenger railcar for the Western Region before being transferred to Scotland in 1968. Stripped of seats and with an extra pair of double doors in both bodysides she became a Class 131 DMLV parcels vehicle later that same year. Initially allocated to Leith Central Depot in Edinburgh by 1975 she had moved across the city to Haymarket. In September 1983 No. 55015 was converted to a Sandite departmental vehicle and renumbered TDB977177. A final transfer to Eastfield TMD in Glasgow followed during 1988 before withdrawal in July 1990. Scrapping was undertaken by MC Metals at their Springburn site in Glasgow during July 1990. Of interest in this image No. 55015 is clearly marked as an MPV rather than a DMLV on the front corner of the vehicle.
Bob Woolnough
