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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-63Depot code change86A
Apr-68 Transferred to 81D (Reading)
May 1973Depot code changeRG
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19/08/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)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:

Class 123 DMU at Birmingham New Street

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.

Class 123 DMU at Dare Junction, Newport

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.

Class 123 DMU at Leeds

30th May 1978

A three-car Class 123 set in Leeds station on May 30th 1978 formed of 52088 + 59819 + 52098. Rex Holt.

Class 123 DMU at Lancaster

August 1982

Set number: C708

A Swindon-built DMU in Lancaster station during August 1982 with DMBSL E52088 closest. George Woods.

Class 123 DMU at Doncaster Works

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.

Class 123 DMU at Doncaster

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:

DMU

Date: 25th April 1983

51962 + 59824 + 59237 + 52088 at Doncaster with a Manchester - Cleethorpes service on 25 April 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

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.