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Vehicle 51063

Class 119

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30421
Diagram: 540

Allocations

4w/e 24/02/59	New to	82B (Bristol Marsh Junction)
circa Jun-64	Transferred to	82A (Bristol Bath Road)
06/05/73	Depot code change	BR
w/e 07/06/75	Transferred to	LA (Laira)
3w/e 07/05/77	Transferred to	BR (Bristol Bath Road)
4w/e 26/05/79	Transferred to	RG (Reading)
15/05/83	Transferred to	BR (Bristol Bath Road)
11/05/86	Transferred to	CF (Cardiff Canton)
10/05/87	Transferred to	LE (Swansea Landore)
4w/e 26/01/88	Transferred to	CF (Cardiff Canton)
19/07/88	Withdrawn from	CF (Cardiff Canton)

Notes

19/12/88 - withdrawn vehicles 51063/9/91/7, 51302/17, 59039, 59422/69/79 (for Snailwell) and 59030/6, 59363, 59474 (for V Berry) departed Canton leaving 51322 as the only condemned vehicle there

Modifications

03/07/73 - Dual AWS fitted
p/e 24/07/76 - Leyland engines fitted
p/e 25/06/77 - WR AWS removed

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51063	59422	51091	As delivered to 82B - 4w/e 24/02/59
	51063	59422	51091	Noted 31/12/68 - at Cardiff¹
	51063	59422	51091	Noted 01/04/69 - in Birmingham New Street¹
	51063	59422	51091	Noted 21/08/1971 - at Newport²
	51063	59422	51091	Noted 24/08/1971 - at Bristol²
	51063	59422	51091	Noted 20/11/71 - in Bristol Temple Meads¹
	51063	59422	51091	Noted 02/07/1973 - at Swindon Works²
	51063	59422	51091	Noted 13/08/1973 - at Hereford³
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 06/09/73 - at Severn Tunnel Junction⁴
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 20/07/74 - on 2V70 1745 Weymouth-Cardiff
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 07/10/74 - on 2C46 1600 Weymouth-Cardiff with B555
	51063	59422	51091	Transfer to LA - w/e 07/06/75
P577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 27/08/75 - on Laira depot⁴
P577	51063	59422	51091	Listed at LA - 01/05/1976
P577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 27/06/1976 - Branch Line Society Cornish Clay Railtour
P577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 07/09/76 - at Truro⁴
	51063	59422	51091	Transfer to BR - 3w/e 07/05/77
P577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 09/11/1977 - Noted carrying LA stickers at Cardiff Central⁵
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 15/12/1977 - Cardiff Central⁵
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 19/12/1977 - Cardiff Central⁵
B577	51063	59422	51091	Listed at BR - 31st December 1977
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 23/06/78 - on 2C19 1830 Cardiff-Hereford
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 20/07/78 - on 2B60 1755 Cardiff-Bristol TM
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 20/07/1978 - Cardiff Central⁵
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 18/08/78 - on 2C19 1830 Cardiff-Hereford
577	51063	59422	51091	Transfer to RG - 4w/e 26/05/79 - from BR
L577	51063	59422	51091	Listed at RG - 03/03/80
L577	51063	59422	51091	Listed at RG - 15/12/1982
B577	51063	59422	51091	Transfer to BR - 15/05/83 - Now B prefix
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted circa 07/1983⁶
B577	51063	59422	51091	Listed at BR - 01/01/85
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted circa 11/1985⁶
B577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 05/02/1986⁶
C577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 05/04/1986 - Monmouthshire Railway Society The Risca Cuckoo Railtour C306+C577+L416
C577	51063	59422	51091	Transfer to CF - 11/05/86 - from BR, was B577. Should the date be earlier since it seems to have been C577 when operating the Risca Cuckoo Railtour in early April?
C577	51063	59422	51091	Listed at Cardiff (Canton) - Summer 1986
C577	51063	59422	51091	Noted circa 06/1986⁶
S577	51063	51091		Formation change - LE - Jun-87 - Now a two-car, 59422 has been temporarily kept at CF as a spare for C815.
C577	51063	51091		Noted circa 07/1987⁶
S577	51063	59422	51091	Listed at LE - Aug-87
C577	51063	59422	51091	New set number at CF - w/e 07/02/88
C577	51063	59422	51091	Noted 10/05/88 - dragged by 37159 on 2V66 1458 Weymouth-Cardiff

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Shayne Lewis
6: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 119 DMU at Worcester Foregate Street

Unknown date

Set number: B577

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.

autumn 1972

Set number: B577

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.

8th December 1973

Set number: B577

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.

February 1974

Set number: B577

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.

27th June 1976

Set number: P577

The Branch Line Society Cornish Clay railtour at Drinnick Mill, Nanpean Siding, on 27 June 1976. Stuart Mackay Collection.

27th June 1976

Set number: P577

The Branch Line Society Cornish Clay railtour at Carne Point on 27 June 1976. Operated by Class 119 set P577, in view is DMBC 51063. Stuart Mackay Collection.

27th June 1976

Set number: P577

The Branch Line Society Cornish Clay railtour at Drinnick Mill, Nanpean Siding, on 27 June 1976. It was formed of Class 119 DMU set P577, presumably 51063 + 59422 + 51091. Stuart Mackay Collection.

4th December 1976

Set number: P577

Class 119 set P577 DMBC 51063 is seen at Truro on 4th December 1976. This photo was taken from the infamous Western China Clay railtour. Ian Buck.

1981

Set number: L577

Class 119 DMU set L577 (presumably 51063 + 59422 + 51091) is being prepared at Tonbridge for a departure to Reading sometime in 1981. Image taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.

June 1982

Set number: L577

At this time a strike meant that the few trains running on the Brighton Line were a bit of a mixed bag. This is seen as a 6-car Brighton to London Bridge train leaves Redhill in June 1982 with class 119 car 51063 on set L577 (presumably with 59422 + 51091). Ian Buck.

1st April 1984

Set number: L577

Occasionally the Reading Gatwick service was diverted via the West London and Brighton Main Line owing to trackworks. On 1st April 1984 Class 119 set L577 with car 51063 leading (presumably with 59422 + 51091) passes Coulsdon North. Ian Buck.

7th June 1986

Set number: C577

Class 119 Cardiff Canton DMU set C577 (presumably 51063 + 59422 + 51091), heads north out of Hereford and past the goods yard on Saturday 7th June 1986. Paul James.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 11th November 1972

Set number: B577

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.

Date: summer 1973

Set number: B577

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.

Date: 11th July 1986

Set number: P577

A Class 119 on a Falmouth to Truro service waits to depart from the thankfully reinstated Docks station on 11/7/86. WR set 577 should be 51063 + 59422 + 51091, yet the vehicles were allocated to CF at the time, and had not been Plymouth vehicles since 1977. Stephen Burdett.

Date: unknown

Set number: C577

A 2-car 119 set (C577 presumably 51091 + 51063) and a Met-Camm enters Cynghordy. Date unknown. Tom Clift.

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