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
Feb-59 | New to | BL (Bristol Marsh Junction) | |
by Jun-62 | Transferred to | 88A (Cardiff Canton) | |
10/09/62 | Transferred to | 84E (Tyseley) | |
01/01/63 | Boundary change | 84E | transferred from WR to LMR stock |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 2A | |
3w/e 01/02/64 | Transferred to | 84A (Laira) | |
4w/e 04/05/68 | Transferred to | 82A (Bristol Bath Road) | |
4w/e 23/11/68 | On loan to | 81D (Reading) | |
Dec-68 | Ex-loan back 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) | |
03/02/83 | Transferred to | DY (Derby Etches Park) | |
02/02/86 | Transferred to | AY (Ayr) | |
Feb-87 | Stored U. | FY (Falkland Yard) | |
Mar-87 | Withdrawn from | AY (Ayr) |
50693 - original number
53693 - from Sep-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
8w/e 01/01/72 - Dual AWS fitted
23/1/74 - Pontypool Rd, WR
Derailment involving Class 120 / Class 121
Info from Peter Mullen
A Cardiff to Crewe train became derailed on catch points near Pontypool Road while working wrong line to pass a failed freight train. More Details.
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
50699 | 50693 | Noted Summer 1966 | |||||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Transfer to 81D - 4w/e 23/11/68 - on loan | ||||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Transfer to 82A - Dec-68 | ||||||
CTN502 | 50735 | 59294 | 50693 | Listed at 86A - May-70 - (also noted as 50738 - 59299 - 50693) | |||||
CTN502 | 50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Listed at 86A - May-70 - (also noted as 50735 - 59294 -50693) | |||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 15/08/70 - at Shrewsbury1 | ||||||
CTN502 | 50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71 | |||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 20/08/1971 - at Abergavenny2 | ||||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 23/08/1971 - at Abergavenny2 | ||||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 26/08/1971 - at Newport2 | ||||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 18/09/1971 - at Crewe2 | ||||||
C502 | 50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 31/10/72 | |||||
C502 | 50735 | 59294 | 50693 | Noted 08/09/74 - on 2B33 1200 Cardiff-Cheltenham with C530 | |||||
C502 | 50735 | 59294 | 50693 | Noted 29/04/75 - on 2C09 1420 Swansea-Cardiff attached to 56289 + C558 | |||||
C502 | 50735 | 59294 | 50693 | Noted 03/05/75 - on 2C09 1420 Swansea-Cardiff with C505 | |||||
C502 | 50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 26/08/75 - at Newport1 | |||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 26/08/75 - On Cardiff Canton depot1 | ||||||
C502 | 50735 | 59294 | 50693 | Noted 09/03/76 - on 2C40 0710 Cardiff-Swansea | |||||
C513 | 50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 30/04/76 - on 2B60 1715 Cardiff-Taunton with C526 | |||||
C513 | 50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Listed at CF - 01/05/1976 | |||||
C513 | 50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 07/06/77 - on 2B30 1155 Cardiff-Bristol TM with C509 | |||||
C502 | 50735 | 59294 | 50693 | Noted 27/08/1978 - West Wales Area3 | |||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 28/05/1979 - on 17:45 Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton 4 | ||||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted 23/10/1980 - Working 0410 Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth3 | ||||||
50738 | 59299 | 50693 | Noted circa 05/19825 | ||||||
50738 | 59262 | 50693 | Transfer to DY - 03/02/83 | ||||||
53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted 30/05/1983 - at Crewe on 11:20 to Derby with 53704, 59089 & 536764 | ||||||
53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted circa 12/19835 | ||||||
53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted 11/02/85 | ||||||
53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted 23/08/1985 - at Derby6 | ||||||
spare | 53693 | Formation change - DY - circa Sep-85 | |||||||
53742 | 59268 | 53693 | Listed at AY - circa Jan-86 | ||||||
517 | 53742 | 59268 | 53693 | Noted 1st February 1986 | |||||
53742 | 59268 | 53693 | Noted 25/02/86 | ||||||
53737 | 59531 | 53693 | Noted 3rd July 1986 | ||||||
53737 | 59531 | 53693 | Noted 7th July 1986 | ||||||
53737 | 59531 | 53693 | Noted 8th August 1986 | ||||||
519 | 53737 | 59531 | 53693 | Noted 9th August 1986 | |||||
522 | 53744 | 59558 | 53693 | Formation change - circa Sep-86 - 59558 replaced 59063 | |||||
519 | 53737 | 59531 | 53693 | Noted 6th September 1986 | |||||
51239 | 59559 | 53693 | Noted 4th December 1986 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Shayne Lewis
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Robert Chilton
W50693 is at the front of a Swindon Cross-Country DMU departing from Evesham station with the 5.10pm Kidderminster - Worcester - Stratford-upon-Avon service on 14 April 1962. Michael Mensing.
53693 + 59262 + 53738 wait to leave Leamington spa with a New Street service on Monday 11/2/85. Mel Holley.
BR (Swindon) Cross Country (later Class 120) 2-car dmu (reduced from 3-cars) Nos.W50699 (120/1), W50693 (120/2) at Newport (High St), c.Summer 1966, on a shuttle service to Cardiff (General) - hardly the long range fast service it was designed for. Hugh Llewelyn.
Class 119 sets L576 and L578 have either come out of or are about to enter the empty siding on the right. They are at Spalding on a Flower Parade special from West Ruislip on 7 May 1983. Other details from the July 1983 issue of The Railway Observer (p270): in the sidings on the far left are 53669 + 59256 + 53718 / 50331 + 59125 + 50308 / 53738 + 59262 + 53693 which ran from Burton-on-Trent / Leicester. On the right are 54230 + 53947 / 51929 + 52041 / 78601 + 78851 which ran from Manchester Piccadilly. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The 13:41 Largs - Glasgow at Stevenston on November 17, 1986. The formation (101/101/120) is probably 51239 59559 53693. Hamish Stevenson.