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Vehicle 59431


Class 119

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Lot Number: 30423
Diagram: 542

Allocations

Jul-59 New to 84E (Tyseley)
01/01/63Boundary change84Etransferred from WR to LMR stock
Sep-63Depot code change2A
2w/e 18/03/67 Transferred to 6A (Chester)
06/05/73Depot code changeCH
w/e 22/10/77 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
w/e 03/05/80 Transferred to LA (Laira)
3w/e 15/11/80 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
16/05/82 Transferred to RG (Reading)
12/04/87 Stored U. Su
16/07/87 Withdrawn

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51072 59431 51100 As delivered to Tyseley - July 1959
51058 59431 51087 Noted Aug-68 - at Shrewsbury1
CR552 51058 59431 51087 Noted circa Jun-69
51058 59431 51088 Noted 15/08/70 - at Crewe1
51058 59431 51087 Noted 28/05/1974 - at Wolverhampton 2
51072 59431 51085 Noted 01/05/76 - on 09.30 Wolverhampton – Shrewsbury3
CR555 51072 59431 51085 Noted 31/07/76 - at Shrewsbury, set number only on 510721
51072 59431 51085 Noted 13/04/1977 - Chester4
CR555 51072 59431 51085 Noted 13/09/77 - at Shrewsbury, set number only on 510721
C593 51072 59431 51085 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
C593 51072 59431 51088 Noted 16/07/1978 - Cardiff Central5
C593 51072 59431 51085 Noted 12/04/1979 - at Cardiff Central Station5
C593 51072 59431 51085 Noted 16/04/1979 - At Llanelli Station5
51072 59431 51085 Noted 11/12/79 - on 05:50 Whitland - Pembroke Dock and 06:58 Pembroke Dock - Whitland3
C593 51072 59431 51085 Listed at CF - 03/03/80
593 51072 59431 51085 Transfer to LA - w/e 03/05/80
593 51072 59431 51085 Transfer to CF - 3w/e 15/11/80
L593 51072 59431 51085 Listed at RG - 15/12/1982
L593 51072 59431 51085 Noted circa 11/19844
L593 51072 59431 51085 Listed at RG - 01/01/85
L593 51072 59431 51085 Noted circa 02/19864
L593 51072 59431 51085 Listed at Reading - Summer 1986
L593 51072 59431 51085 Noted 31/01/19874

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Phil Shatford
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Shayne Lewis

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 28th June 1978

Set number: C593

Class 119 DMU set C593 (presumably 51072 + 59431 + 51085) is seen passing Chetnole with the 14:30 Weymouth - Westbury - Bristol service on 28 June 1978. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 23rd August 1980

Set number: C593

Class 119 set C593 (presumably 51072 + 59431 + 51085) is seen on the overcast afternoon of Saturday August 23rd 1980 in Par station. A recent transfer from Cardiff to Laira, it is between local services on the Newquay branch. Gerard Fletcher.

DMU

Date: circa 1981

Set number: C593

Class 119 set C593 (presumably 51085 + 59431 + 51072) in Weston-Super-Mare in the early 1980s; it was a Cardiff set from November 1980 to May 1982. Graeme Phillips Collection.

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: L593

Class 119 car 51072 leads set L593 (presumably with 59431 + 51085) into Tonbridge. Set L580 is on the left. Ian Buck.

DMU

Date: unknown

Set number: L593

At the old un-rebuilt Guildford class 119 set L593 with car 51085 leading, presumably with 59431 + 51072. Ian Buck.

DMU

Date: 2nd April 1983

Set number: L593

Class 119 DMU set L593 (presumably 51085 + 59431 + 51072) seen east of Didcot on 2 April 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 1984

Set number: L593

The cross-country route from Tonbridge to Reading was dominated by three car Gloucester class 119 DMUs in the 1980s. Unit L593 (presumably formed 51072 + 59431 + 51085) here enters Dorking's Deepdene station with a Reading train in 1984. Ian Docwra.

DMU

Date: 22nd March 1984

Set number: L593

Class 119 set L593 (51085 and presumably 59431 + 51072) narriving at Deepdene on 22nd March 1984. Ian Buck.