Builder: Pressed Steel
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30519
Diagram: 513
| Feb-61 | New to | 81C (Southall) | |
| Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| 15/02/69 | Withdrawn from | 81D (Reading) |
Scrapped by BR, Swindon Works
| 55023 | 56288 | Noted 19/05/1979 - on Reading depot1 | |||||||
| L288 | 56288 | Listed at RG - 01/03/81 | |||||||
| L288 | 56288 | Listed at RG - 28/11/81 |
Formation Sources
1: Martin Lumley
A Pressed Steel DTS and DMBS seen at West Ealing on 28 April 1963. Closest is W56288 - a vehicle that had a lifespan of just eight years. Stuart Mackay Collection.