Vehicle 50709 / 53709
Class 120
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30335
Diagram: 587
Allocations
| 4w/e 30/11/57 | New to | 86C (Cardiff Canton) | |
| by Oct-60 | Transferred to | 84E (Tyseley) | |
| 10/09/62 | Transferred to | 88A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
| 2w/e 28/06/69 | Transferred to | 16C (Derby Etches Park) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | DY | |
| circa 1984 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
| 20/04/86 | Transferred to | AY (Ayr) | |
| Jun-86 | Stored | AY (Ayr) | |
| 2w/e 08/06/86 | Withdrawn from | AY (Ayr) | - also noted as 29/09/87 |
Notes
29th June 1987 - Seen at Aberdeen Ferryhill
07/09/87 - Withdrawn vehicles 51235/7/9, 53143/75, 53648/59 and 53709/39 noted passing through Newcastle behind 47 210 on a Millerhill-March special.
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50709 - original number
53709 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| TYS502 | 50709 | 59267 | 50652 | Listed at TYS - circa Oct-60 | |||||
| 50709 | 59263 | 50652 | Transfer to 16C - 2w/e 28/06/69 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59301 | 50652 | Noted 05/11/70 - at Birmingham New Street1 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59281 | 50652 | Noted 02/01/71 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59281 | 50652 | Noted 06/03/1971 - at Birmingham New Street2 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59281 | 50652 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Sheffield1 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59287 | 50688 | Noted 19/09/71 - at Crewe at 6.30am1 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59287 | 50688 | Noted 02/10/1971 - at Birmingham New Street3 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59272 | 50657 | Noted 24/06/72 - at Thetford4 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59272 | 50657 | Noted 17/09/72 - at Stoke-on-Trent1 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59272 | 50650 | Noted 14/01/73 - at Derby1 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59273 | 50680 | Noted 31/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street3 | ||||||
| EP578 | 50709 | 59276 | 50688 | Noted 13/08/74 - on 1320 Crewe-Licoln St Marks | |||||
| 50709 | 59272 | 50676 | Noted 06/07/1975 - at Derby2 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59272 | 50676 | Noted 13/07/75 - on the RCTS East Angian Rambler railtour with 50717/59255/50655 | ||||||
| 50448 | 59280 | 50709 | Noted 30/04/77 - on 2F76 1236 Birmingham New Street-Leicester with 50062 + 59028 + 50117 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59259 | 50680 | Noted 05/08/77 - on 2E84 2054 Derby-Lincoln St Marks | ||||||
| 50709 | 59259 | 50680 | Noted 10/09/77 - at Aberystwyth4 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59255 | 50680 | Noted 02/08/80 - at Norwich4 | ||||||
| EP502 | 50709 | 59297 | 50663 | Listed at DY - circa Jun-82 | |||||
| 50709 | 59297 | 50650 | Noted circa 03/1983 - 50709 labelled EP502, 60650 labelled EP5085 | ||||||
| 53709 | 59297 | 53650 | Noted circa 09/19835 | ||||||
| EP502 | 53709 | 59297 | 51794 | Noted circa 03/19845 | |||||
| 53709 | 59297 | 51794 | Listed at NH - circa Jan-86 | ||||||
| 53709 | 59297 | 51794 | Transfer to AY - 2w/e 15/04/86 | ||||||
| 531 | 53709 | 59297 | 51794 | Noted May 1986 | |||||
| 531 | 53709 | 59682 | 51788 | Formation change - AY - Jun-86 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 2nd November 1969
A Swindon Cross-Country DMU formed of W50652 + W59263 + W50709 (transferred from Cardiff to Derby in June) arrive into Hinckley working wrong line on 2 November 1969. Phillip Malin.