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Vehicle 59262

Class 120

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Lot Number: 30336
Diagram: 561

Allocations

4w/e 22/02/58	New to	86C (Cardiff Canton)
Jan-61	Depot code change	88A
Sep-63	Depot code change	86A
May-65	Transferred to	82A (Bristol Bath Road)
Jul-65	Transferred to	86A (Cardiff Canton)
06/05/73	Depot code change	CF
3w/e 17/02/79	Transferred to	CH (Chester)
03/02/83	Transferred to	DY (Derby Etches Park)
Jan-86	Transferred to	TS (Tyseley)
Mar-86	Transferred to	AY (Ayr)
28/09/86	Transferred to	HA (Haymarket)
Dec-87	Withdrawn

Notes

29th January 1958 - New at Swindon Carriage Works.
27th June 1988 - Seen at Falkland Yard
21st August 1988 - Seen at Falkland Yard

Disposal

Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

CDF508	50700	59262	50659	Listed at CDF - circa Sep-60
CTN511	50716	59262	50675	Listed at 86A - May-70
CTN511	50716	59262	50675	Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71
	50716	59262	50675	Noted 21/08/1971 - at Newport¹
	50716	59262	50675	Noted 04/10/72 - at Pritchatts Rd, Edgbaston²
	50701	59262	50681	Noted 25/08/1974 - at Carmarthen¹
	50701	59262	50681	Noted 27/08/1974 - at Swansea¹
	50701	59262	50681	Noted 28/08/1974 - at Llanelli¹
C511	50716	59262	50675	Noted 13/09/74 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven with C605
C511	50716	59262	50675	Noted 09/04/75 - on 1A41 1452 Swansea-Paddington with 56289 + C509
C511	50716	59262	50675	Noted 23/02/76 - on 2C40 0710 Cardiff-Swansea
C509	50716	59262	50675	Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
C509	50716	59262	50675	Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
C509	50716	59262	50675	Noted 27/08/1978 - Llanelli³
C509	50716	59262	50675	Noted 18/09/78 - on 2C19 1830 Cardiff-Hereford
	50716	59262	50675	Transfer to CH - 3w/e 17/02/79
	50721	59262	50668	Noted 24/10/1980 - At Shrewsbury working 1840 to Chester³
	50721	59262	50668	Noted circa 08/1982⁴
	50738	59262	50693	Transfer to DY - 03/02/83
	53738	59262	53693	Noted 30/05/1983 - at Crewe on 11:20 to Derby with 53704, 59089 & 53676⁵
	53738	59262	53693	Noted circa 12/1983⁴
	53738	59262	53693	Noted 11/02/85
	53738	59262	53693	Noted 23/08/1985 - at Derby⁶
	53738	59262	53647	Formation change - DY - circa Sep-85
	53738	59262	53647	Noted circa 10/1985⁴
	53738	59262	53647	Noted 15/11/85 - on 09:22 Derby - Crewe service⁷
TS400	53738	59262	53647	New set number at TS - Jan-86 - number never carried
	53738	59262	53647	Noted 19/01/86 - on 18:35 Crewe - Grantham running 19 late⁷
TS400	53738	59262	53647	Noted 12/02/1986⁴
TS400	53738	59262	53647	Noted 18/02/1986⁴
524	53738	59262	51587	Formation change - circa Jun-86 - 51587 replaces 53647
	53738	59262	51790	Noted 7th July 1986
	53738	59262	51790	Noted 12th July 1986
524	53738	59262	51790	Listed at Ayr - August 1986
	53738	59262	51790	Noted 8th August 1986
	53738	59262	51790	Noted 6th September 1986
	59262			Noted 11/10/1986 - at Falkland Yard⁴
533	53700	59262	53682	Listed at HA - 23/03/87
535	53733	59262	53654	Formation change - circa May-87 - 59262 (ex-120533) replaced 59289 (to 120533)
	53733	59262	53654	Noted 29/05/1987⁴
535	53733	59262	53654	Noted 08/08/1987⁴
535	53733	59262	53654	Noted 19th November 1987

Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Shayne Lewis
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Peter Wallwork
6: Robert Chilton
7: Martin Baumann

Images:

6th June 1989

Class 120 centre car M59262 at Springburn Yard on June 6, 1989. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 7th May 1983

Set number: L576

Class 119 sets L576 and L578 have either come out of or are about to enter the empty siding on the right. They are at Spalding on a Flower Parade special from West Ruislip on 7 May 1983. Other details from the July 1983 issue of The Railway Observer (p270): in the sidings on the far left are 53669 + 59256 + 53718 / 50331 + 59125 + 50308 / 53738 + 59262 + 53693 which ran from Burton-on-Trent / Leicester. On the right are 54230 + 53947 / 51929 + 52041 / 78601 + 78851 which ran from Manchester Piccadilly. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 11th February 1985

53693 + 59262 + 53738 wait to leave Leamington spa with a New Street service on Monday 11/2/85. Mel Holley.

Date: August 1987

Set number: 535

Class 120 Wester Hailes Aug 1987. A train for Glasgow Central arrives at this then relatively newly opened West Edinburgh station. Set 535 is presumably 53733 + 59262 + 53654. Alistair Ness.

Date: August 1987

Set number: 535

Class 120 Wester Hailes August 1987 A Glasgow Central bound train departs. Set 535 is presumably 53654 + 59262 + 53733. Alistair Ness.

Date: August 1987

Set number: 535

Weird sight at Wester Hailes. The suburb of Wester Hailes grew rapidly in the 1970s but despite straddling the Edinburgh to Glasgow Central and Carstairs route, the locals were not provided with a station until May 1987. Three months after opening, we see the strange sight of a Swindon Cross Country class 120 DMU (53733 and presumably 59262 + 53654) stopping here on an Edinburgh to Glasgow Central via Shotts service. This was during the "anything goes" period where worn out DMUs displaced from Sprinterisation elsewhere were moved around the country and Scotrail got a few of these sets to tide them over during the latter half of the 1980s. Murray Liston.

Date: 23rd November 1987

Set number: 535

120535 departs from Dunlop with the 12.45 Kilmarnock - Glasgow Central train on 23-11-1987. I recorded the cars as 53654, 59262, 53733. Gordon Thomson.

Date: 23rd November 1987

Set number: 535

120535 calls at Dunlop with the 12.45 Kilmarnock - Glasgow Central train on 23-11-1987. I've recorded the cars as 53733, 59262, 53654. The old goods shed & yard have been taken over by a builders yard, later to become housing. Gordon Thomson.

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