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
Oct-58 | New to | 86C (Cardiff Canton) | |
Jan-61 | Depot code change | 88A | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
Nov-64 | Transferred to | 82A (Bristol Bath Road) | |
May-70 | Transferred to | 86A (Cardiff Canton) | |
06/05/73 | Depot code change | CF | |
w/e 22/10/77 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
06/02/84 | Withdrawn from | CH (Chester) |
50683 - original number
53683 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
p/e 30/12/72 - Dual AWS fitted
p/e 14/05/77 - WR AWS removed
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
BL515 | 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted circa Mar-68 - in blue grey with full yellow ends | |||||
CTN501 | 50683 | Listed at 86A - May-70 - Other two vehicles unknown | |||||||
50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 06/11/70 - at Cardiff1 | ||||||
CTN501 | 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71 | |||||
50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 21/08/1971 - at Newport2 | ||||||
50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 20/11/71 - in Bristol Temple Meads1 | ||||||
50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 08/01/1972 - at Crewe3 | ||||||
50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 26/05/1973 - at Crewe3 | ||||||
50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 31/08/1974 - at Newport2 | ||||||
C501 | 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 26/08/75 - On Cardiff Canton depot4 | |||||
50714 | 59273 | 50683 | Noted 30/04/1976 - at Loughborough with service to Derby 3 | ||||||
C512 | 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Listed at CF - 01/05/1976 | |||||
50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 04/09/76 - at Cardiff1 | ||||||
50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted circa 08/19795 | ||||||
53735 | 59294 | 53683 | Noted circa 04/19835 | ||||||
53735 | 59294 | 53683 | Noted circa 12/19835 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
Three Class 120s inside Chester depot, including M50683 in the centre road. On the right is a Class 103 DMBS minus it's front bogie. May 30th, 1978. Rex Holt.
A Chester allocated Class 120 seen at Wolverhampton in March 1982. Closest is M50683, the centre car is presumably M59294. Another Class 120 is on the left. Stuart Mackay Collection.
120533 (53700+59532+53683) at Glasgow Central on 12-05-1989. My favourite 1st generation dmu - enjoying an 'Indian summer' on Strathclyde suburban services, shortly before the takeover of class 156 was completed. Gordon Thomson.