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Vehicle 52098


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: 30704
Diagram: 574

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)
w/e 18/12/76 Stored CF (Cardiff Canton)
13/06/77 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
27/05/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Modifications

Oct-70 - Dual AWS fitted
Jun-75 - WR AWS removed

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52088 59820 59237 52098 As delivered to CDF - February 1963
52094 59821 52098 Noted 03/07/66 - at Salisbury
52094 59821 52098 Noted 4th August 1966 - Noted on 2T43 at Cardiff/Newport.
52093 59828 59818 52098 Noted 03/08/67 - at Southampton Central1
52091 59823 52098 Noted 25/08/69 - at Paddington1
52091 59823 52098 Noted 07/03/70 - at Royal Oak2
RDG511 52091 59823 52098 Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70
52091 59820 59238 52098 Noted 19/11/70 - at Paddington1
L711 52091 59823 52098 Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak2
C711 52091 59823 52098 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
52091 59823 52098 Noted 31st May 1976
L711 52091 59823 52098 Noted 04/09/76 - at Newport2
52088 59819 52098 Noted May-78
52098 51973 59821 52099 Noted 12/04/19793
52091 59823 52098 Noted 31st May 1979
52098 59824 52093 Noted 27/10/19793
52098 51983 59824 52100 Noted 19/07/19803
52091 59824 59770 52098 Noted 27/10/19803
52098 59827 59770 52095 Noted circa 02/19833
52098 59821 59842 52100 Noted circa 05/19843

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

Images:

Class 123 DMU at Swindon Works

14th June 1965

An official image from the Swindon Works Accident series, negative 5AB/100. Swindon Inter-City DMS W52098, 14/6/65. It carries a CDF set number on the solebar to the left of the stepboard, sadly the cable obscures the number (7xx series). British Railways.

Class 123 DMU at Didcot

18th September 1971

Set number: 511

A three-car Class 123 DMU at Didcot on 18 September 1971 with W52098 closest. David Mant.

Class 123 DMU at Manchester Piccadilly

March 1979

E52098 as part of a Trans-Pennine Unit at Manchester Piccadilly in March 1979. Karel 1999.

Class 123 DMU at Sheffield

23rd May 1981

A Swindon DMU set in Sheffield station on 23 May 1981 with Class 123 E52098 closest. Bill Fraser.

Class 123 DMU at Thornaby depot

12th September 1982

Class 123 DMSK 52098 at TE on 12/9/82. Jerry Glover.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 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.

DMU

Date: 30th May 1978

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