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Vehicle number W.51402 is a Driving Motor Second (DMS) built by Pressed Steel Co. and delivered to the Western Region in July 1960 to BR lot number 30458.  With two B.U.T/Leyland 680 6-cylinder horizontal type engines of 150bhp this vehicle weighs in at 36 tons.

Seating capacity is for 89 passengers with side doors at each seating bay.  The vehicle formed set number 422 / T302 / 117422, and was withdrawn in September 1993.  It was delivered to the Northampton Steam Railway on the 25th of August 1999 having been in store for approximately 4 years.  The vehicle was received in exchange for W.56495, which then moved to the Dean Forest Railway into the ownership of the Dean Forest DMU group.

This vehicle departed from the Northampton Steam Railway on the 14th of June 2005 for the Strathspey Steam Railway.

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