Builder: Pressed Steel
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30519
Diagram: 513
Sep-60 | New to | 81C (Southall) | |
Jul-64 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
Nov-64 | Transferred to | 81C (Southall) | |
Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
Jun-87 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) | |
p/e 02/03/91 | Sector Change to | OO (Old Oak Common) NXXZ | |
26/03/91 | Withdrawn from | OO (Old Oak Common) NXXZ |
56280 - original number
54280 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
circa Jul-70 - Dual AWS fitted
Jun-75 - WR AWS removed
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
51367 | 59519 | 51409 | 56280 | Noted 14/02/72 - at Royal Oak1 | |||||
50987 | 56280 | Noted 24/02/76 - in Liverpool Exchange2 | |||||||
L280 | 56280 | Listed at RG - 01/05/1976 | |||||||
L280 | 56280 | Listed at RG - 31st December 1977 | |||||||
L280 | 56280 | Noted 17/09/1978 - Reading3 | |||||||
56280 | 51337 | 59489 | 51379 | Noted circa 01/19794 | |||||
L280 | 56280 | Listed at RG - 03/03/80 | |||||||
L280 | 56280 | Listed at RG - 15/12/1982 | |||||||
55034 | 54280 | Noted circa 01/19844 | |||||||
L280 | 54280 | Listed at RG - 01/01/85 | |||||||
51343 | 51385 | 54280 | Noted circa 07/19854 | ||||||
54280 | 51052 | 59282 | 51080 | Noted circa 11/19854 | |||||
51350 | 59502 | 51392 | 54280 | Noted circa 02/19864 | |||||
L280 | 54280 | Listed at Reading - Summer 1986 | |||||||
55031 | 54280 | Noted 26/08/19864 | |||||||
L129 | 55029 | 54280 | Noted 21/04/87 - at Royal Oak, 54280 carried set number L2801 | ||||||
L280 | 54280 | Listed at OO - Aug-87 | |||||||
53155 | 51443 | 54280 | Noted 12/09/19874 | ||||||
51849 | 54280 | Noted circa 03/19894 | |||||||
51891 | 59656 | 51849 | 54280 | Noted circa 04/19894 | |||||
L280 | 54280 | Listed at OO - 15/05/89 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Shayne Lewis
4: Eddie Knorn
56280 after arrival at Windsor and Eton Central in 1973. John Law.
Class 121 driving trailer at Cookham on the Marlow branch in May 1980. Ian Buck.
Pressed Steel DTS W56280 working with W55031 arriving at Paddington on a service from Greenford, 09/82. Hugh Llewelyn.
Sometime in 1985 class 121 driving trailer 56280 is working the Marlow Donkey at Bourne End. Ian Buck.
This was taken at Banbury on 25 January 1986. At the time, there was no fence obscuring the view from the trackside just to the south of platforms and no-one seemed to mind if one stood there to take pictures. It was, of course, the ideal spot on a sunny Saturday afternoon when there was quite a variety of movements, both unit and locomotive hauled. This shot shows trailer 54280 and a single unit "bubble car" leaving the main line platform at Banbury on their way to Oxford as an all stations stopping service. Peter Tandy.
L280 (54280) + L403 (51336 + 59488 + 51378), in that order, seen at Oxford on the 14th April 1987. S Gaskell.
Class 121 Driving Trailer 54280 coupled to a native Class 115 Motor Car forming the Princes Risborough Shuttle on 8th April 1989. The far 2 cars were berthed in the platform, they included a Met-Camm vehicle. AndrewHA.
Pressed Steel Class 121 "bubble car" W55031 working with DTS W56280 seen at Paddington on Greenford duties in September 1982. Hugh Llewelyn.
Class 121 Pressed Steel DMUs DMBS 55030 + DTS 56280 Oxford 29-1-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
Taken at Reading on 30 January 1987 was this picture of 55022 leading driving vehicle 54280 towards Reading station. The destination blind said Marlow which gave to where the unit had been working but on this occasion it went straight though Reading towards Didcot. Peter Tandy.
A freshly painted 55992 at Reading MPD in Saturday 20 February, 1988. Behind is Class 121 DTS 54280. Mel Holley.
Class 121 bubble 55027 hauls DTS 54280 through Ealing Broadway on 15/3/88. Malcolm Clements.
Apparently fitted with a replacement cab from a Class 116 DMU. Class 117 DMS 51396 leads another RG allocated hybrid formation - running as set L417 - through Iver Station whilst forming the 0935 Reading - Paddington service ... 51396+54280+51354. 17th August 1988. Nigel Mack.