Vehicle 56291
Class 122
Builder: GRC&W
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30420
Diagram: 538
Allocations
| 3w/e 05/07/58 | New to | 81C (Southall) | |
| by Jun-61 | Transferred to | 84E (Tyseley) | |
| 01/01/63 | Boundary change | 84E | transferred from WR to LMR stock |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 2A | |
| 4w/e 30/06/68 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| Oct-68 | Transferred to | 60A (Inverness) | |
| Jan-69 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| Mar-72 | Transferred to | 65A (Eastfield) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | ED | |
| 4w/e 02/07/77 | Stored | ||
| 11/08/77 | Withdrawn |
Notes
14/09/78 - A Glasgow Works visit found 56291, 56297 and 56299, all withdrawn, distributed around the yard. Also 50745, W in 1976, 51447, W in 9/77, and 51803, which was recorded as being a “wreck”, and stored 51784.
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 55002 | 56291 | Noted 27/05/70 - at Glasgow Central1 | |||||||
| 55002 | 56291 | Noted 15/08/70 - on Hamilton depot1 | |||||||
| 02 | 55002 | 56291 | Listed at 66C - 1972 | ||||||
| 55002 | 56291 | 51536 | Noted 05/08/19742 | ||||||
| 55007 | 56291 | Noted 05/09/76 - at Stirling3 | |||||||
| 50254 | 56291 | 51532 | Noted 30/03/1977 - 08:45 Springburn to Cumbernauld service2 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
Images:
circa 1968
GRC&W DTC 56291 arrives into Motherwell station - no date, but the M predix should date it to soon after transfer from Tyseley to Hamilton in June 1968. Also in the formation is a GRC&W bubble, a three-car Derby Heavyweight (later Class 107) and possibly at least one more vehicle. Graham Clark.
circa 1968
GRC&W DTC M56291 and three GRC&W bubble cars at Rutherglen. Date unknown, but probably circa late 1968 after the DTC had been transferred from Tyseley to Hamilton. Graham Clark.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 2nd February 1976
A hybrid Class 101 set at Springburn on February 2nd 1976. It has a Class 122 DTS for a centre car, Eastfield had three at the time - 56291, 56297 and 56299. Arnie Furniss.
Date: unknown
A withdrawn Class 122 DTS (either SC56291 or SC56297) awaiting disposal at Glasgow Works. To the right is Sc79479. Malcolm Clements.
Date: unknown
SC79479 is one of several 79xxx Swindon Inter-City vehicles built for the Edinburgh - Glasgow services that were transferred to work with the later Ayrshire 5xxxx sets. It is seen here in Glasgow Works. To the left is Class 122 DTS (either SC56291 or SC56297), to the right a Mk1. Undated. Malcolm Clements.
Date: January 1982
Many DMUs sat around at Millerhill awaiting journeys south for scrapping. SC56299 plus another (56291 or 56297) and a Mk.1 sleeping car sit in the slush of a winter's day in January 1982. Alistair Ness.