Vehicle 59239
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
| Apr-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) | |
| 5w/e 05/03/78 | Reinstated | LN (Lincoln) | |
| 2w/e 25/03/78 | Transferred to | 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| 20/05/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |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:
| 52090 | 59822 | 59239 | 52100 | As delivered to CDF - April 1963 | |||||
| 510 | 52090 | 59239 | 59825 | 52100 | Noted circa Jan-70 - Reading set | ||||
| RDG510 | 52090 | 59239 | 59825 | 52100 | Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70 | ||||
| 510 | 52090 | 59239 | 59825 | 52100 | Noted 25/10/1971 - at Paddington1 | ||||
| L710 | 52090 | 59239 | 52100 | Noted 30/08/74 - at Banbury, fourth vehicle if there was one unrecorded, set number on 521002 | |||||
| L710 | 52090 | 59825 | 59239 | 52100 | Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak2 | ||||
| 51962 | 59239 | 51981 | 51960 | Noted 18/04/19803 | |||||
| 52105 | 51968 | 59239 | 51963 | Noted 19/07/19803 | |||||
| 51956 | 51976 | 59239 | 51954 | Noted 01/11/19803 | |||||
| 51956 | 51976 | 59239 | 51954 | Noted 01/11/19803 | |||||
| 51954 | 59837 | 59239 | 51955 | Noted 25/08/82 | |||||
| 51952 | 59838 | 59239 | 52105 | Noted circa 02/19833 | |||||
| 51966 | 59239 | 59768 | 52092 | Noted 03/01/1984 - at Manchester Picc3 | |||||
| 52088 | 59771 | 59239 | 51967 | Noted circa 05/19843 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
Images:
10th July 1978
Class 123 Inter-City Trailer Second E59239 at Selby station on July 10, 1978. The interior layout was similar to a standard Mark I TS, and has B4 bogies. The vehicle on the right has standard Swindon bogies, and the brake van means it's a Class 124 MBS. Malcolm Clements.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 25th August 1982
E51954 + E59837 + E59239 + E51955 are seen at Lancaster Castle on the 25th August 1982. Robert Frise.
Date: 15th April 1984
Mixed Swindon set with Class 124 and 123 numbers E51967, E59239, E59771, and E52088 getting relief at Sheffield with the 0915 Manchester Piccadilly to Hull on 15 April 1984. Keith Long.