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Vehicle 52094

Class 123

BR Diagram 566

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

Jun-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)
w/e 18/12/76 Stored CF (Cardiff Canton)
09/04/78 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
19/08/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Modifications

14/11/73 - Dual AWS fitted
Jun-75 - WR AWS removed

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52094 59826 59831 52104 As delivered to CDF - June 1963
52094 59821 52098 Noted 03/07/66 - at Salisbury
52094 59821 52098 Noted 4th August 1966 - Noted on 2T43 at Cardiff/Newport.
514 52094 59824 52102 Noted circa Jan-70 - Reading set
52094 59824 52102 Noted 08/04/70 - at Royal Oak1
RDG514 52094 59824 52102 Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70
52092 59824 52094 Noted 19/11/70 - at Paddington2
52094 59824 52102 Noted 11/02/71 - at Royal Oak1
L714 52094 59824 52102 Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak1
C714 52094 59824 52102 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
C714 52094 59824 52102 Noted 26/09/76 - on 2V67 1345 Crewe-Cardiff with C600
C714 52094 59824 52102 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
52094 51977 59820 51954 Noted 10/11/19793
52093 59770 59819 52094 Noted 19/07/19803
52094 59823 59769 52099 Noted 27/10/19803
52094 59822 59769 52099 Noted 01/11/19803
52094 59825 59235 52096 Noted 18/04/1981 - Seen at Selby3
52094 59827 59818 52102 Noted circa 19833
51957 59773 59827 52094 Noted circa 03/19833
52094 59769 59821 52099 Noted circa 10/19833
51961 59823 59235 52094 Noted 16/11/1983 - at Sheffield3
52102 59819 59767 52094 Noted circa 01/19843
51957 59235 59821 52094 Noted 03/01/1984 - at Manchester Picc3
51964 59768 59827 52094 Noted 24/04/19843

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Inside a Class 123 DMU

14th June 1965

An official image from the Swindon Works Accident series, negative 5AB/104. It shows the damage inside the van area of Inter-City DMBS W52094 on 14/6/65. The wooden door leads into the cab. British Railways.

Class 123 DMU at Swindon Works

14th June 1965

An official image from the Swindon Works Accident series, negative 5AB/105. Inter-City DMBS W52094 on 14/6/65. British Railways.

Class 123 DMU at Southampton

12th March 1967

W52094 at the end of a six-car Swindon Inter-City DMU formation seen in Southampton station on 12 March 1967. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 123 DMU at Manchester Piccadilly

18th March 1979

Having arrived in platform 1 at Manchester Piccadilly with a service from Sheffield, former Western Region Class 123 Driving Car E52094 (Complete with its oil tail lamp) was bringing up the rear of a hybrid three-car set on March 18th 1979. At the opposite end was a Class 124 Trans-Pennine car. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 123 DMU at Doncaster

October 1981

Set number: 714

A Class 123/4 hybrid DMU seen at Doncaster in October 1981. DMBSL E52094 is closest. George Woods.

Class 123 DMU at Sheffield

Unknown date

Set number: 714

A Swindon DMU formation with Class 123 E52094 closest seen at Sheffield, date unknown. Paul Redmond.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 10th August 1982

51967+59835+59238+52094 at Barnetby. Phil Bidwell.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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