Vehicle 59238
Class 123
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30706
Diagram: 568
Allocations
| Mar-63 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
| Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
| 28/02/76 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 26/06/77 | Stored U. | LN (Lincoln) | |
| w/e 13/05/79 | Stored | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| by Mar-81 | Reinstated | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 20/05/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Notes
31/07/76 - 59235, 59238 & 59239 noted on their own at Shrewsbury
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 52089 | 59821 | 59238 | 52099 | As delivered to CDF - March 1963 | |||||
| 52092 | 59820 | 59238 | 52097 | Noted 25/08/69 - at Paddington1 | |||||
| 52092 | 59238 | 52097 | Noted 07/03/70 - at Royal Oak2 | ||||||
| 52092 | 59820 | 59238 | 52097 | Noted 08/04/70 - at Royal Oak2 | |||||
| RDG512 | 52092 | 59238 | 59820 | 52097 | Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70 | ||||
| 52091 | 59820 | 59238 | 52098 | Noted 19/11/70 - at Paddington1 | |||||
| L712 | 52092 | 59820 | 59238 | 52097 | Noted 8th June 1974 - Noted on 1Z15 08:35 Paddington - Exeter with L715 W52095+59822+52096 and L709 W52104+59827+52089. | ||||
| L712 | 52092 | 59820 | 59238 | 52097 | Noted 10/08/74 - on 1Z67 0743 Swansea-Paddington with L708 | ||||
| L712 | 52092 | 59238 | 59820 | 52097 | Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak2 | ||||
| 52092 | 59238 | 59820 | 52097 | Noted 06/06/1975 - 1821 special from Paddington to Henley for Regatta. Part of 7 car set 52096-59822-52095 + 52097-59820-59238-52092 | |||||
| L712 | 52092 | 59238 | 59820 | 52097 | Noted 04/08/1975 - on 19:55 Birmingham New Street to Oxford? at Solihull3 | ||||
| 52090 | 59238 | 59821 | 52104 | Noted 05/05/1981 - at Hull forming 14:50 to Leeds3 | |||||
| 51967 | 59840 | 59238 | 51951 | Noted circa 10/19824 | |||||
| 52090 | 59826 | 59238 | 51956 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||
| 52090 | 59238 | 59819 | 51960 | Noted circa 08/19834 | |||||
| 52091 | 59238 | 59767 | 51952 | Noted circa 09/19834 | |||||
| 51954 | 59238 | 59236 | 52092 | Noted 16/11/1983 - at Sheffield4 | |||||
| 51966 | 59238 | 59841 | 52091 | Noted circa 05/19844 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
Images:
31st August 1976
47 088 at Crewe on the 16.00 to Cardiff on 31st August 1976 formed of DMU trailers headed by Class 123 trailer second W59238. Robert Thomas.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 4th October 1981
Swindon built Trans-Pennine Class 124 Motor Composite DMU E51965 at Doncaster station on October 4th 1981. The four car unit also contained E59238, E52093 and E59768. Rob Edwards.
Date: 10th August 1982
51967+59835+59238+52094 at Barnetby. Phil Bidwell.