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Vehicle 59363


Class 116

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30365
Diagram: 555

Allocations

4w/e 22/03/58 New to 88A (Cardiff Cathays)
Jan-61Depot code change88B
Mar-62Depot code change88M
Nov-64 Transferred to 84A (Laira)
Nov-66 Transferred to 86A (Cardiff Canton)
06/05/73Depot code changeCF
Oct-87 Withdrawn from CF (Cardiff Canton)

Notes

19/12/88 - withdrawn vehicles 51063/9/91/7, 51302/17, 59039, 59422/69/79 (for Snailwell) and 59030/6, 59363, 59474 (for V Berry) departed Canton leaving 51322 as the only condemned vehicle there

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 26/11/1976 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50855 59363 50908 As delivered to 88A - 4w/e 22/03/58
50855 59363 50908 Transfer to 84A - Nov-64
50855 59363 50908 Noted 06/11/70 - at Cardiff1
CTN302 50855 59363 50908 Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71
50855 59363 50908 Noted 29/08/1974 - at Cardiff2
C302 50855 59363 50908 Noted 03/09/74 - at Cardiff3
C302 50855 59363 50908 Noted 26/08/75 - in Cardiff Central3
C315 50855 59363 50908 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
C315 50855 59363 50908 Noted 07/08/1976 - on 08:00 Coryton to Bute Road4
50855 59363 50908 Noted 04/09/76 - at Cardiff1
50855 59363 50908 Noted 26/03/1977 - Monmouthshire Railway Society Dowlais / Coed Ely Railtour 50122-59030-50080+50855-59363-50908
C315 50855 59363 50908 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
C315 50855 59363 50908 Listed at CF - 03/03/80
C315 50855 59363 50908 Listed at CF - 15/12/1982
C315 53855 59363 53908 Noted circa 09/19835
C315 53855 59363 53908 Listed at Cardiff (Canton) - Summer 1986
C315 53855 59363 53908 Noted 05/06/19865
53855 59363 53908 Noted 09/06/87
C315 53855 59363 53908 Listed at CF - Aug-87

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 16th September 1979

Set number: C315

The final port of call on the 16th September 1979 NREA 'shed bash' was to bag the DMU sets stabled at Rhymney. Viewed from the now demolished island platform, disused for many years, refurbished Derby Works class 116 high density suburban triple set C315 (W50855-W59363-W50908), eventually forming a Cardiff service stands in Rhymney station, in the initial but short-lived white/blue stripe livery with brown underframe. All class 116 units were new to the Western Region and were delivered in 1957-58 and were synonymous with South Wales valley services. Gordon Edgar.

DMU

Date: 13th October 1979

Set number: C315

Arriving at Aber with DMU set C315 (50908 + 59363 + 50855) leading is the 15.28 Rhymney-Cardiff train on 13th October 1979. It's in the "reversed" rail blue and white livery, applied at one point to refurbished first-generation DMUs. Tom Burnham.

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: C315

Class 116 DMU set C315 (50855 and presumably 59363 + 50908) seen at Cardiff, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

DMU

Date: 1982

Set number: C315

Class 116 set C315 (W50905 and presumably 59363 + 50855) departs from Taffs Well station in early 1982, with Cardiff Central on the destination blind. A Class 117 sits in the platform, thought to be set C451 with 51380 visible. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 2nd April 1982

Set number: C315

Class 116 set C315 (presumably 50855 + 59363 + 50908) arriving into Cogan station with the 5.45pm Barry Island - Coryton service on April 2nd, 1982. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 1985

Set number: C315

Class 116 set C315 lead by 53855 (presumably with 59363 + 53908) near Pontypridd in early 1985. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 1985

Set number: C315

Class 116 set C315 (W53908 at the front, presumably with 59363 + 53855) enters Taff's Well in 1985. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 8th March 1985

Set number: C315

Class 116 set C315 (presumably 53855 + 59363 + 53908) passing Maesmawr's Up Distant near Treforest Estate Halt on March 8, 1985. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: C315

Class 116 unit C315, 53855 leading travels north through the old Gelli colliery site at Ystrad in the Rhondda Fawr in the mid-1980s. The other two vehicles are presumably 59363 + 50908. Peter Brabham.

DMU

Date: circa 1987

Set number: C315

C315 (53855 + 59363 + 53908) enters Radyr, circa 1987. Mac Winfield.

DMU

Date: 18th July 1987

Set number: C315

C315 approaches Cardiff Queen Street on the 14:06 Ystrad Mynach to Barry Island, Saturday 18th July 1987, with W53855 closest and presumably 59363 + 50908. PJ Evans.