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Vehicle 50709 / 53709


Class 120

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30335
Diagram: 587

Allocations

4w/e 30/11/57 New to 86C (Cardiff Canton)
by Oct-60 Transferred to 84E (Tyseley)
10/09/62 Transferred to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
Sep-63Depot code change86A
2w/e 28/06/69 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
May-73Depot code changeDY
circa 1984 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
20/04/86 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
Jun-86 Stored AY (Ayr)
2w/e 08/06/86 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr) - also noted as 29/09/87

Notes

29th June 1987 - Seen at Aberdeen Ferryhill
07/09/87 - Withdrawn vehicles 51235/7/9, 53143/75, 53648/59 and 53709/39 noted passing through Newcastle behind 47 210 on a Millerhill-March special.

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50709 - original number
53709 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


TYS502 50709 59267 50652 Listed at TYS - circa Oct-60
50709 59263 50652 Transfer to 16C - 2w/e 28/06/69
50709 59301 50652 Noted 05/11/70 - at Birmingham New Street1
50709 59281 50652 Noted 02/01/71
50709 59281 50652 Noted 06/03/1971 - at Birmingham New Street2
50709 59281 50652 Noted 04/06/71 - at Sheffield1
50709 59287 50688 Noted 19/09/71 - at Crewe at 6.30am1
50709 59287 50688 Noted 02/10/1971 - at Birmingham New Street3
50709 59272 50657 Noted 24/06/72 - at Thetford4
50709 59272 50657 Noted 17/09/72 - at Stoke-on-Trent1
50709 59272 50650 Noted 14/01/73 - at Derby1
50709 59273 50680 Noted 31/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street3
EP578 50709 59276 50688 Noted 13/08/74 - on 1320 Crewe-Licoln St Marks
50709 59272 50676 Noted 06/07/1975 - at Derby2
50709 59272 50676 Noted 13/07/75 - on the RCTS East Angian Rambler railtour with 50717/59255/50655
50448 59280 50709 Noted 30/04/77 - on 2F76 1236 Birmingham New Street-Leicester with 50062 + 59028 + 50117
50709 59259 50680 Noted 05/08/77 - on 2E84 2054 Derby-Lincoln St Marks
50709 59259 50680 Noted 10/09/77 - at Aberystwyth4
50709 59255 50680 Noted 02/08/80 - at Norwich4
EP502 50709 59297 50663 Listed at DY - circa Jun-82
50709 59297 50650 Noted circa 03/1983 - 50709 labelled EP502, 60650 labelled EP5085
53709 59297 53650 Noted circa 09/19835
EP502 53709 59297 51794 Noted circa 03/19845
53709 59297 51794 Listed at NH - circa Jan-86
53709 59297 51794 Transfer to AY - 2w/e 15/04/86
531 53709 59297 51794 Noted May 1986
531 53709 59682 51788 Formation change - AY - Jun-86

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 2nd November 1969

A Swindon Cross-Country DMU formed of W50652 + W59263 + W50709 (transferred from Cardiff to Derby in June) arrive into Hinckley working wrong line on 2 November 1969. Phillip Malin.