close

Sign In


Not registered?
Forgot Your Password?

<- 50688 | 50689 | 50690 ->

Vehicle 50689 / 53689


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: 30334
Diagram: 586

Allocations

4w/e 24/01/59 New to BL (Bristol Marsh Junction)
30/07/62 Transferred to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
Sep-63Depot code change86A
4w/e 31/05/69 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
May-73Depot code changeDY
02/03/86 Withdrawn from DY (Derby Etches Park)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50689 - original number
53689 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


CDF509 50742 59276 50689 Noted Aug-67 - in plain blue livery
EP482 50742 59276 50689 Noted circa Jun-69 - ex-CTN509
50742 59276 50689 Noted 18/08/70 - at Derby1
50708 59280 50689 Noted 17/09/71 - at Crewe2
50708 59280 50689 Noted 18/09/1971 - at Crewe3
50708 59280 50689 Noted 19/05/72 - at Crewe2
EP481 50744 59280 50689 Noted 31/10/72
50697 59290 50689 Noted 17/08/1973 - at Leicester on 20:35 to Birmingham New Street with 50696 50263 and 506854
50708 59276 50689 Noted 25/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street3
EP594 50696 59290 50689 Noted 03/07/1975 - at Derby4
50696 59290 50689 Noted 07/07/1975 - at Nuneaton4
50696 59290 50689 Noted 13/12/1975 - at Birmingham New Street 4
50720 59300 50689 Noted 02/04/1976 - at Norwich4
50720 59300 50689 Noted 28/08/76 - on 1320 Crewe-Lincoln St Marks
50736 59290 50689 Noted 17/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds1
EP524 50719 59295 50689 Listed at DY - circa Jun-82
EP524 50719 59295 50689 Noted circa 06/19825
EP524 53719 59295 53689 Noted circa 03/19845
EP524 53719 59295 53689 Noted 08/09/84 - at Norwich1
53711 59285 53689 Formation change - DY - circa Sep-85
53711 59295 53689 Noted circa 09/19855
53711 59295 53689 Noted 24/09/85 - on 15:25 Derby - Crewe service6
53712 59104 53689 Formation change - DY - circa Nov-85

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

Images:

Class 120 DMU at possibly Swindon Works

Unknown date

Class 120 DMSL M50689, date/location unknown (probably Swindon Works in the early 1980s). Paul Redmond.

Class 120 DMU at Vic Berrys

Unknown date

Class 120 M53689 is on the stilts on the right in Vic Berrys yard, Leicester. It was cut up in June 1986. Ian Francis.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: EP524

Swindon Cross-Country Class 120 DMU set EP 524 (53719 and presumably 59295 + 53689) in Leicester station with a Nottingham service. Date unknown, sometime between 1983 (when it was renumbered in the 53xxx series) and September 1985 (withdrawal). Stuart Mackay Collection.