Vehicle 59779
Class 124
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30606
Diagram: 562
Allocations
| 25/10/60 | New to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 25/03/67 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
| 26/10/75 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Notes
18/01/76 - 59775/6/7/8/9 and 79111 noted at Botanic Gardens depot, withdrawn, awaiting removal for scrap. All noted there again on 21/2/76.
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51961 | 51978 | 59770 | 59779 | 51979 | 51962 | As delivered to 55H - 25th October 1960 | |||
| 51955 | 59769 | 59779 | 51984 | 51508 | Noted 05/01/75 - on Botanic Gardens depot1 | ||||
| 51957 | 51968 | 59771 | 59779 | 51984 | 51508 | Noted 09/01/75 - at Selby1 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
Images:
6th May 1976
Class 124 Trans-Pennine buffet car E59779 (and E59775) on Hull Botanic Gardens depot, 6 May 1976. It had been withdrawn the previous October but would not be scrapped for another five years. Brian Daniels.