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) | |
| 06/12/59 | Transferred to | 81C (Southall) | |
| 20/12/59 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| Jan-60 | Transferred to | 81C (Southall) | |
| 09/06/60 | Transferred to | 86C (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Jan-61 | Depot code change | 88A | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
| Jul-65 | Transferred to | 82A (Bristol Bath Road) | |
| Jul-65 | Transferred to | 86A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | CF | |
| 2w/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| Dec-87 | Withdrawn |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 29/07/1971 - Swansea on 2M93 09.40 to Shrewsbury via Central Wales1 | ||||||
| 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Noted 21/08/1971 - at Newport2 | ||||||
| 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Noted 04/10/72 - at Pritchatts Rd, Edgbaston3 | ||||||
| 50701 | 59262 | 50681 | Noted 25/08/1974 - at Carmarthen2 | ||||||
| 50701 | 59262 | 50681 | Noted 27/08/1974 - at Swansea2 | ||||||
| 50701 | 59262 | 50681 | Noted 28/08/1974 - at Llanelli2 | ||||||
| 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 | Noted 22/05/1977 - Cardiff area4 | |||||
| C509 | 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Listed at CF - 31st December 1977 | |||||
| C509 | 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Noted 27/08/1978 - Llanelli5 | |||||
| C509 | 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Noted 18/09/78 - on 2C19 1830 Cardiff-Hereford | |||||
| C509 | 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Noted 02/12/1978 - Swansea4 | |||||
| 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Noted 11/02/1979 - Chester4 | ||||||
| 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Transfer to CH - 2w/e 17/02/79 | ||||||
| 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Noted 11/03/1979 - Wolverhampton4 | ||||||
| 50716 | 59262 | 50675 | Noted 23/09/1979 - Chester4 | ||||||
| 50721 | 59262 | 50668 | Noted 24/10/1980 - At Shrewsbury working 1840 to Chester5 | ||||||
| 50721 | 59262 | 50668 | Noted 28/09/1981 - at Shrewsbury 4 | ||||||
| 50721 | 59262 | 50668 | Noted circa 08/19826 | ||||||
| 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 & 536767 | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted circa 12/19836 | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted 04/07/1984 - Peartree with 06.22 SX Matlock-Sinfin Central & 07.09 SX return1 | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted 20/12/1984 - at Stoke-on-Trent 4 | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted 11/02/85 | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted 07/05/1985 - Uttoxeter with 10.18 Crewe-Derby1 | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted 23/08/1985 - at Derby8 | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53693 | Noted 24/08/85 - hauled by 47358 on 1120 Crewe-Lincoln Central and 1538 Lincoln Central-Crewe | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53647 | Formation change - DY - circa Sep-85 | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53647 | Noted circa 10/19856 | ||||||
| 53738 | 59262 | 53647 | Noted 15/11/85 - on 09:22 Derby - Crewe service9 | ||||||
| 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 late9 | ||||||
| TS400 | 53738 | 59262 | 53647 | Noted 12/02/19866 | |||||
| TS400 | 53738 | 59262 | 53647 | Noted 18/02/19866 | |||||
| 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 Yard6 | ||||||||
| 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 29/05/19876 | ||||||
| 535 | 53733 | 59262 | 53654 | Noted 08/08/19876 | |||||
| 535 | 53733 | 59262 | 53654 | Noted 19th November 1987 |
Formation Sources
1: Alan N Walker
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Martin Lumley
5: Shayne Lewis
6: Eddie Knorn
7: Peter Wallwork
8: Robert Chilton
9: 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: circa September 1986
Set number: C616
A Class 120 (51790 and presumably 59262 + 53738) with a Class 101 on the rear departs from Paisley Gilmour Street for Glasgow, likely on a service from Ayr. The slide process date was October 1986, but likely taken before the set was transferred to Haymarket at the end of September. The leading car was a formed Aberdeen - Inverness vehicle, and the first passenger sidelight is a stretcher window. Stuart Mackay Collection.
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.