Vehicle 56299
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
| 4w/e 06/09/58 | New 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) | |
| 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| 11/08/77 | Withdrawn |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14/09/78 - A Glasgow Works visit found 56291, 56297 and 56299, all withdrawn, distributed around the yard.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:
| 55007 | 56299 | Noted 15/08/70 - on Hamilton depot1 | |||||||
| 55007 | 56299 | Noted 11/09/71 - at Polmadie1 | |||||||
| 07 | 55007 | 56299 | Listed at 66C - 1972 | ||||||
| 55007 | 56299 | Noted 06/04/72 - at Eastfield1 | |||||||
| 51463 | 56299 | 51520 | Noted 01/04/1977 - Glasgow Queen Street2 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
Images:
4th May 1958
Brand new GRC&W driving trailer second W56299 seen at Southall on 4 May 1958. Stuart Mackay Collection.
2nd December 1961
W56299 with a Class 122 bubble car arrives into Birmingham Snow Hill with the 2.0pm ex-Dudley on the 2nd December 1961. Michael Mensing.
27th October 1962
W56299 leads a GRC&W bubble car on the 3.0pm Dudley - Birmingham Snow Hill service seen at Hockley on the 27th October 1962. Michael Mensing.
circa mid-1970s
Freshly painted with a brown underframe Class 122 DTS SC56299 is seen on Eastfield depot. Date unknown, it was allocated to the depot from March 1972 till August 1977 when it was withdrawn. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Unknown date
SC56299 is seen awaiting it's fate, stripped of all re-useable parts at Glasgow Works. Malcolm Clements.
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.
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.