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Vehicle 59268

Class 120

BR Diagram 561

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 22/03/58 New to 86C (Cardiff Canton)
Jan-61Depot code change88A
Sep-63Depot code change86A
06/05/73Depot code changeCF
p/e 01/02/81 Transferred to DY (Derby Etches Park)
02/02/86 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
Mar-87 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
Mar-87 Withdrawn from HA (Haymarket) - also noted as 29/09/87

Notes

29th January 1958 - New at Swindon Carriage Works.
03/08/87 - 51193 + 53650/70 + 59247/88/268/559/80/681 moved as 5E96 Aberdeen Ferryhill - Snailwell hauled by 47308.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


CTN503 50707 59268 50653 Listed at 86A - May-70
50707 59268 50653 Noted 30/10/70 - at Cardiff1
50707 59268 50653 Noted 06/11/70 - at Newport (Mon.)1
CTN503 50707 59268 50653 Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71
50707 59268 50653 Noted 22/05/71 - at Crewe1
503 50707 59268 50653 Noted 02/11/72
50707 59268 50653 Noted 02/03/73 - in Birmingham New Street1
503 50707 59268 50653 Noted 06/09/73 - on Cardiff Canton depot2
563 50707 59268 50653 Noted 06/09/73 - at Severn Tunnel Junction2
50707 59268 50653 Noted 27/05/1974 - at Gloucester3
50707 59268 50653 Noted 26/08/74 - at Cardiff4
50707 59268 50653 Noted 29/08/1974 - at Cardiff4
C503 50707 59268 50653 Noted 03/09/74 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven
C503 50707 59268 50653 Noted 18/09/74 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven with C526
C503 50707 59268 50653 Noted 20/09/74 - on 2C36 1650 Newport-Swansea with 56289 attached
C503 50707 59268 50653 Noted 08/01/75 - on 2C46 1600 Weymouth-Cardiff with B468
C503 50707 59268 50653 Noted 24/03/75 - at Cardiff working with C338 + 56289 + C534
C503 50707 59268 50653 Noted 02/05/75 - on 2C09 1420 Swansea-Cardiff with 56289 + C601
C503 50707 59268 50653 Noted 23/04/76 - on 2C12 0735 Hereford-Cardiff
C502 50707 59268 50653 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
50707 59268 50653 Noted 04/09/76 - in Cardiff Central2
C502 50707 59268 50653 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
C501 50707 59268 50653 Listed at CF - 03/03/80
C501 50707 59268 50653 Noted 24/10/1980 - At Swansea High Street Station working a service to Llanelli5
50707 59268 50653 Transfer to DY - Feb-81
EP517 50742 59268 50654 Listed at DY - circa Jun-82
EP517 50742 59268 50654 Noted 12/06/82 - at Norwich2
EP517 50742 59268 50654 Noted circa 01/19836
EP517 53742 59268 53654 Noted circa 06/19836
EP517 53742 59268 53654 Noted circa 12/19836
53742 59268 53647 Formation change - DY - Aug-85
spare 59268 Formation change - DY - circa Sep-85
53742 59268 53693 Listed at AY - circa Jan-86
517 53742 59268 53693 Noted 1st February 1986
517 53742 59268 53654 Formation change - AY - circa Feb-86
53742 59268 53693 Noted 25/02/86
51174 59268 53742 Noted 20th May 1986
51174 59268 51186 Noted 19th June 1986
369 51186 59268 53688 Listed at Ayr - August 1986
107427 51781 59268 51987 Formed at AY p/e 17/09/86 - two vans, 51781 carried C615
51987 59268 51788 Noted 20th September 1986
spare 59268 Formation change - circa Oct-86
524 53738 59268 51788 Noted 06/12/19866

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Jeremy Goodyear
5: Shayne Lewis
6: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 120 DMU at Glasgow Central

circa June 1986

Class 120 Cross-Country centre car M59268 seen in Glasgow Central circa June or July 1986 between two Class 101 DMBSs, 51186 on the left and 51174 on the right (with orange stripe). Ian Docwra.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 19th March 1972

Set number: 503

A Swindon Cross-Country DMU in Chepstow station on the 19th of March 1972. Carrying set number 503, the vehicles are presumably 50653 + 59268 + 50707. The KDH Archive.

DMU

Date: June 1974

Set number: C503

A Swindon Cross-Country DMU at Milford Haven June 1974. Photograph by John Wiltshire. Set C503 is presumably DMBC 50707 with 59268 visible behind. Peter Brabham Collection.

DMU

Date: circa June 1986

A hybrid set departing from Glasgow Central circa June / July 1986. Class 101 DMBS 51186 is closest, the centre car is Class 120 59268, Class 101 DMBS 51174 out of sight at the far end. Ian Docwra.

DMU

Date: circa Sep-86

Set number: 107427

107 427 rolls into Johnstone. Undated, but the 120 centre car probably means this was circa September 1986 when 51987 ran with 59268 and 51781. Andrew McConnell.

DMU

Date: 7th September 1986

Set number: C615

51781 was for most of it's life a Scottish vehicle, seen here back in Scotland after several years in Cardiff as can be seen by the set number still carried. Working with Class 120 M59268 + Class 107 51987, this is officially Ayr set 427. Seen in Glasgow Central station on the 7th September 1986, ready to work the 14:05 to Ayr. Hamish Stevenson.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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