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Set B577

These formations have been noted:

51063 59422 51091 Noted 06/09/73 - at Severn Tunnel Junction1
51063 59422 51091 Noted 20/07/74 - on 2V70 1745 Weymouth-Cardiff
51063 59422 51091 Noted 07/10/74 - on 2C46 1600 Weymouth-Cardiff with B555
51063 59422 51091 Noted 15/12/1977 - Cardiff Central2
51063 59422 51091 Noted 19/12/1977 - Cardiff Central2
51063 59422 51091 Listed at BR - 31st December 1977
51063 59422 51091 Noted 23/06/78 - on 2C19 1830 Cardiff-Hereford
51063 59422 51091 Noted 20/07/78 - on 2B60 1755 Cardiff-Bristol TM
51063 59422 51091 Noted 20/07/1978 - Cardiff Central2
51063 59422 51091 Noted 18/08/78 - on 2C19 1830 Cardiff-Hereford
51063 59422 51091 Transfer to BR - 15/05/83 - Now B prefix
51063 59422 51091 Noted circa 07/19833
51063 59422 51091 Listed at BR - 01/01/85
51063 59422 51091 Noted circa 11/19853
51063 59422 51091 Noted 05/02/19863
Transfer to CF - 2w/e 15/05/86 - became C577

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Shayne Lewis
3: Eddie Knorn

Class 119 DMU at Worcester Foregate Street

Unknown date

Class 119 set B577 (presumably 51063 + 59422 + 51091) heads out of Worcester Foregate Street in the late 1960s / early 1970s. Whilst most DMUs went from green livery to blue livery from the late 1960s, Cross-Country (Classes 119 and 120) and Inter-City (Classes 123 and 126) types (including Trans-Pennine Class 124) generally went straight into blue & grey livery, thus they carried this livery with many original fitting such as headcodes (which were normally removed later). Going against the trend, some Scottish region Class 120 and 126 units carried blue livery, whilst some Western region Class 101 units that were deployed on Cross-Country services went straight from green livery to blue & grey, long before the livery became standard for the class. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 119 DMU at Bradford-on-Avon

autumn 1972

Class 119 DMU set B577, presumably 51063 + 59422 + 51091, at Bradford-on-Avon. The slide process date was January 1973 but the trees suggest this was summer/early autumn of the previous year. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 119 DMU at Neath

11th November 1972

GRC&W Cross-Country DMU set B577 (51091 and presumably 59422 + 51063) seen at Neath with the 10:20 Swansea - Cardiff General service on 11 November 1972. Robert Thomas.

Class 119 DMU at Westbury

summer 1973

Old Instamatic slides taken probably in summer 1973 at Westbury. This was during the period when the Portsmouth-Bristol trains had been strengthened to six coaches, resulting in WR dmus being drafted in to supplement the Hampshire demus. Closest is Class 119 set B577, presumably 51091 + 59422 + 51063. We were on a Southern Rover and had come out from Salisbury on the dmu to catch the Summer Saturdays only Cardiff-Weymouth which at that time was the only train booked via Chandlers Ford and formed of a Class 47 and Mk 1s. Tony Watson.

Class 119 DMU at Bridgend

8th December 1973

Oval-buffered W51063 at the front of set B577 (presumably with 59422 + 51091) seen in Bridgend with the 10:20 (SO) Swansea-Cardiff Central on 8 December 1973. Robert Thomas.

Class 119 DMU at Clink Road Junction

February 1974

Class 119 B577 (presumably 51063 + 59422 + 51091) is caught working the 08:08 Bristol - Weymouth at Clink Road Jct. one February morning in 1974. Adrian Vaughan.


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