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-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) | |
| 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| 27/05/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |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:
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.
18th September 1971
Set number: 511
A three-car Class 123 DMU at Didcot on 18 September 1971 with W52098 closest. David Mant.
March 1979
E52098 as part of a Trans-Pennine Unit at Manchester Piccadilly in March 1979. Karel 1999.
23rd May 1981
A Swindon DMU set in Sheffield station on 23 May 1981 with Class 123 E52098 closest. Bill Fraser.
12th September 1982
Class 123 DMSK 52098 at TE on 12/9/82. Jerry Glover.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
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.
Date: 30th May 1978
A three-car Class 123 set in Leeds station on May 30th 1978 formed of 52088 + 59819 + 52098. Rex Holt.