Crash Survivors

[LOL The Irony]

Could it be one car from 158861 which was scrapped and a new one build after colliding with a 47 at Stockport.

I believe that 2 whole new bodyshells were built with one going to 861 and the other going spare.

 

[jazza374]

156478 wasn’t involved in a collision as such it ran into some flood water and damaged all it internals.

Yea I know, it is not a crash victim as such, but, it ran into something (a big flood LOL), was seriously damaged, officially written off, but has been repaired and returned to active service, so I count that as good enough to be on this thread. 156478 is a survivor!! And now my avatar!

 

[TheEdge]

If we are including units that had large rebuilds but came back as the same complete unit then lets throw my personal favourite of 170204. Significant damage after a collision with a tractor, year long rebuild.

 

[Helvellyn]

I believe that 2 whole new bodyshells were built with one going to 861 and the other going spare.

There's a You Tube video of the 158861 being recovered after its accident, which also shows why one of the vehicles was a write-off and had to be replaced with one of the spare bodyshells.

A similar thing happened with 317301, where DTSO 77048 was written off very early on. The units were still being built by BREL at York so a brand new DTSO was built under the same Lot No. and took the original number of the written off vehicle.

A quick Google search not only turned up some pictures of the damage to the original 77048 but also the story of what happened.

http://www.geocities.ws/nickrossa2002/317301gen.htm

 

[Bikeman78]

There's a You Tube video of the 158861 being recovered after its accident, which also shows why one of the vehicles was a write-off and had to be replaced with one of the spare bodyshells.

A similar thing happened with 317301, where DTSO 77048 was written off very early on. The units were still being built by BREL at York so a brand new DTSO was built under the same Lot No. and took the original number of the written off vehicle.

A quick Google search not only turned up some pictures of the damage to the original 77048 but also the story of what happened.

http://www.geocities.ws/nickrossa2002/317301gen.htm

As a result, 317301 and 317325 (now 317883) have been misformed have been misformed almost all their working lives.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

Whoever runs that geocitoes page be careful accessing that page as every time I attempted to click on the link the page was being hijacked with a fake google message claiming my phone has a virus. Obviously I took no notice and closed the page, but it also means I cant read the article

 

[Robert Carroll]

A Class 310 trailer coach (TSO 70756 from 310071) was also rebuilt (1970s I think) to replace an accident damaged Driving Coach (BDTSOL 76178 from 310094) and renunbered 76998. The DTCOL from 310094 (76205) must have been damaged as well because it was converted to a BDTSOL to replace another accident damaged BDTSOL that was written off (76150 from 310066).

094 had the BDTSOL rebuilt from a TSOL:
310094_undated by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

[E_Reeves]

I believe one (if not both) of the 86s in the Nuneaton train crash were rebuilt. They must've been valuable assets to BR.

 

[43096]

I believe one (if not both) of the 86s in the Nuneaton train crash were rebuilt. They must've been valuable assets to BR.

Both were repaired. First 86s to be written off were 86211/429 after the Colwich accident in 1986.

 

[Helvellyn]

I believe one (if not both) of the 86s in the Nuneaton train crash were rebuilt. They must've been valuable assets to BR.

Correct. There does seem to be some odd decisions looking back over vehicles/locomotives that got rebuilt when others did not.

At the risk of going slightly off-topic you also got a couple of odd loco conversions to replace accident damaged examples. 31400 was converted to an ETH example in 1988 from 31161 to replace, IIRC, 31440 that was written off in 1987. 47300 was an even odder conversion from ETH fitted 47468 in 1992 and renumbered into the series for non-boiler fitted 47s. Why it couldn't have been overhauled and just had its ETH equipment isolated I'll never know. IIRC it was a replacement for 47343 that was written off after the collision with 158861.

 

[AlistairCowell]

As far as I'm aware, Greater Anglia 170202 currently operate as a 2-car unit (It was originally a 3-car unit).
Is the centre car 56202 still under repair or is it written off?

 

[Domh245]

As far as I'm aware, Greater Anglia 170202 currently operate as a 2-car unit (It was originally a 3-car unit).
Is the centre car 56202 still under repair or is it written off?

Repair, and soon to return

https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...ing-stock-updates.143516/page-48#post-3621280

 

[dubscottie]

The only bit of 47468 used to make 47300 was the bodyshell. Everything else came from 47343 or other scrapped 47's so it was in effect a "new loco" so got a new number.

47522 is interesting as it only survived because BR was able to claim recovery/repair costs from the insurance company of the farmer that parked his tractor across the line.

Would be razorblades otherwise.

 

[IamTrainsYT]

Did they save any of the pacer that smashed into the 86?

 

[hexagon789]

Did they save any of the pacer that smashed into the 86?

Do you mean the Winsford crash where an 87 ran into an empty 4-car Pacer set that had SPAD-ed? If so the Pacer was written-off.

 

[IamTrainsYT]

The whole unit because I’m sure I have seen one car

 

[gimmea50anyday]

The units body was ripped off its underframes. It was written off.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

 

[hexagon789]

View attachment 63813

Pacers - not so good in a crash

 

[59CosG95]

As regards 365526, two cars went to Spadeadam - it's not entirely clear if this was for shooting practice or destructive explosive testing, although presumably the result would be fairly similar. At least one of the two 8-car pre-series trains of Victoria Line 2009 stock also went to Spadeadam at the same time. The remaining two cars of 365526 I believe still survive - perhaps stored at Wolverton.

Checking the 2019 edition of Platform 5's "combined volume", the two Class 365 vehicles that escaped Spadeadam were sent to Wolverton, with the non-driving car (72290) then going to Ilford; it now seems to have been used as a paint test vehicle. The other driving car (65919) is still at Wolverton.

 

[Neptune]

144017 was seriously damaged when it collided with a pair of 37’s at Skipton around 1992.

It took about 2 years to repair and was the first 144 painted in the second red/cream livery with RR branding.

The only way you can tell is that 55840 (DMSL) has a slightly different shape to the drivers desk and 55853 (MS) is the opposite way around to the other centre cars (circuit breaker cupboard is facing the other driving car from the others).