Vehicle 52088
Class 123
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30703
Diagram: 566
Allocations
| Feb-63 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
| Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
| 28/02/76 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 2w/e 09/07/77 | Stored | RTC (Derby RTC) | |
| 2w/e 09/04/78 | Transferred to | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 19/08/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Modifications
3w/e 06/11/71 - Dual AWS fitted - Incorrectly shown as 82088
Jun-75 - WR AWS removed
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 52088 | 59820 | 59237 | 52098 | As delivered to CDF - February 1963 | |||||
| 52088 | 59819 | 52099 | Noted 08/04/70 - at Royal Oak1 | ||||||
| 52088 | 59819 | 52099 | Noted 11/02/71 - at Royal Oak1 | ||||||
| 52088 | 59819 | 52099 | Noted 12/04/71 - with 52101-59818-59236-52086 / 52095-59822-52096 on 1Z35 09:05 Paddington - Plymouth footex (Fulham v Plymouth) and return departure at 18:15. | ||||||
| L708 | 52088 | 59819 | 52099 | Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak1 | |||||
| C708 | 52088 | 59819 | 52099 | Listed at CF - 01/05/1976 | |||||
| C708 | 52088 | 59819 | 52099 | Noted 31/08/76 - on 2M67 0532 Cardiff-Crewe | |||||
| C708 | 52088 | 59819 | 52099 | Listed at CF - 31st December 1977 | |||||
| 52088 | 59819 | 52098 | Noted May-78 | ||||||
| 52088 | 59820 | 52100 | Noted 05/08/19782 | ||||||
| 52088 | 59824 | 52100 | Noted 17/09/19782 | ||||||
| 52088 | 59820 | 52097 | Noted 12/04/19792 | ||||||
| 52088 | 51970 | 59766 | 51961 | Noted 10/11/19792 | |||||
| 52088 | 59767 | 59772 | 51963 | Noted 27/10/19802 | |||||
| 51962 | 59822 | 59818 | 52088 | Noted 26/06/1982 - Worked 17.12 Leeds to Morecambe service2 | |||||
| 52088 | 59773 | 59826 | 51958 | Noted circa 10/19822 | |||||
| 52088 | 59773 | 59826 | 52096 | Noted circa 10/19822 | |||||
| 51952 | 59235 | 59823 | 52088 | Noted circa 03/19832 | |||||
| 52088 | 59766 | 59826 | 52099 | Noted circa 09/19832 | |||||
| 52088 | 59771 | 59239 | 51967 | Noted circa 05/19842 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn
Images:
20th April 1963
W52088 on the rear of the 12.15pm Cardiff (G) - Derby during the Birmingham New Street stop on April 20, 1963. The other power car was noted as W52098, and that it was coupled to a three-car Cross-Country set. A Cravens is on the right. Michael Mensing.
November 1965
BR (Swindon) Inter-City (later Class 123) Standard Mk.I 4-car dmu Nos. W52088 (123/2), W59818 (183), W59236 (182) and W52097 (123/1) in BR lined green livery with yellow gangway panel at Dare Jct, Newport on a Portsmouth - Cardiff (General) service, 11/65. Hugh Llewelyn.
30th May 1978
A three-car Class 123 set in Leeds station on May 30th 1978 formed of 52088 + 59819 + 52098. Rex Holt.
August 1982
Set number: C708
A Swindon-built DMU in Lancaster station during August 1982 with DMBSL E52088 closest. George Woods.
circa 1983
Set number: C708
E52088 in Doncaster Works. Date unknown, it seems to be undergoing the work to remove the headcode boxes which dates it to circa 1983. E52071 is on the left. Paul Redmond.
circa April 1983
Class 123 DMBSL E52088 in Hull Paragon station with a Class 124 on the left and another 123 to the right. The slide process date was April 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.
20th April 1984
Class 123 52088 is seen at Doncaster on 20.04.1984. This was the other end of a Class 124 Trans-Pennine unit. Andy Cole.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 25th April 1983
51962 + 59824 + 59237 + 52088 at Doncaster with a Manchester - Cleethorpes service on 25 April 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 15th April 1984
Mixed Swindon set with Class 124 and 123 numbers E51967, E59239, E59771, and E52088 getting relief at Sheffield with the 0915 Manchester Piccadilly to Hull on 15 April 1984. Keith Long.