Vehicle 59281
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
| 2w/e 14/06/58 | New to | 84E (Tyseley) | |
| 01/01/63 | Boundary change | 84E | transferred from WR to LMR stock |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 2A | |
| Dec-63 | Transferred to | 84A (Laira) | |
| Jun-64 | Transferred to | 86A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Feb-65 | Transferred to | 82A (Bristol Bath Road) | |
| 11/05/69 | Transferred to | 16C (Derby Etches Park) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | DY | |
| 15/05/83 | Withdrawn from | DY (Derby Etches Park) | |
| Feb-85 | Reinstated | DY (Derby Etches Park) | |
| Jan-86 | Withdrawn from | DY (Derby Etches Park) | - also reported as Aug-85 |
| 16/02/86 | Transferred to | AY (Ayr) | |
| Feb-86 | Reinstated | DY (Derby Etches Park) | |
| Aug-86 | Reinstated | AY (Ayr) | - from? |
| Feb-87 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
| Oct-87 | Withdrawn |
Notes
Dec-83 - Officially withdrawn, but still in traffic during December at DY.
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| TYS508 | 50725 | 59281 | 50680 | Listed at TYS - circa Oct-60 | |||||
| 50725 | 59281 | 50680 | Transfer to 86A - Jun-64 | ||||||
| EP485 | 50725 | 59281 | 50680 | Noted circa Jun-69 | |||||
| 50709 | 59281 | 50652 | Noted 02/01/71 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59281 | 50652 | Noted 06/03/1971 - at Birmingham New Street1 | ||||||
| 50709 | 59281 | 50652 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Sheffield2 | ||||||
| 50697 | 59281 | 50671 | Noted 03/08/1971 - at Derby1 | ||||||
| 50713 | 59281 | 50667 | Noted 12/08/72 - at Peterborough3 | ||||||
| 50720 | 59281 | 50667 | Noted 24/11/72 - at Ipswich4 | ||||||
| 50720 | 59281 | 50667 | Noted 24/03/73 - in Birmingham New Street2 | ||||||
| 50720 | 59281 | 50667 | Noted 27/04/73 - at Derby2 | ||||||
| 50720 | 59281 | 50687 | Noted 11/05/73 - in Birmingham New Street2 | ||||||
| 50700 | 59281 | 50659 | Noted 25/07/73 - on 1202 Swansea-Shrewsbury with 50702 + 50664 | ||||||
| EP598 | 50731 | 59281 | 50692 | Noted 25/08/74 - at Leicester3 | |||||
| 50736 | 59281 | 50650 | Noted 24/10/75 - at Norwich3 | ||||||
| 50725 | 59281 | 50685 | Noted 31/07/76 - on 1532 Lincoln St Marks-Crewe | ||||||
| 50742 | 59281 | 50671 | Noted 22/07/1978 - Derby5 | ||||||
| 50703 | 59281 | 50685 | Noted 09/12/1979 - Swindon Works. Outshopped after C3 Overhaul 2/805 | ||||||
| EP527 | 50703 | 59281 | 50685 | Noted 25/05/1982 - passing Leamington Spa, on transfer from Swindon Works to Tyseley 5 | |||||
| EP527 | 50703 | 59281 | 50685 | Listed at DY - circa Jun-82 | |||||
| EP527 | 53703 | 59281 | 53685 | Noted circa 06/1983 - Also labelled EP5886 | |||||
| 53725 | 59281 | 53685 | Noted circa 05/19846 | ||||||
| 53725 | 59281 | 53685 | Noted 05/06/1984 - at Grantham (trailer supposedly withdrawn)5 | ||||||
| 53708 | 59281 | 53654 | Noted 16/01/86 - on 21:20 Crewe - Grantham service7 | ||||||
| 506 | 53708 | 59281 | 53654 | Formed at AY Feb-86 | |||||
| 53708 | 59281 | 53654 | Noted 24/02/86 | ||||||
| 53708 | 59281 | 53654 | Noted 2nd April 1986 | ||||||
| 53708 | 59281 | 53654 | Noted 27/05/1986 - at Ayr5 | ||||||
| 51248 | 59281 | 53672 | Noted 7th July 1986 | ||||||
| 520 | 53711 | 59281 | 53672 | Listed at Ayr - August 1986 | |||||
| spare | 59281 | Formation change - circa Oct-86 | |||||||
| 53706 | 59281 | 53652 | Noted 07/11/19866 | ||||||
| 534 | 53732 | 59281 | 53686 | Listed at HA - 23/03/87 | |||||
| 534 | 53732 | 59281 | 53686 | Noted circa 04/19876 | |||||
| 534 | 53732 | 59281 | 53686 | Noted 29/05/19876 |
Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Gerald Brown
4: Ipswich Transport Society
5: Martin Lumley
6: Eddie Knorn
7: Martin Baumann
Images:
4th September 1988
Swindon Cross-Country centre-car 59281 is seen at Snailwell on September 4, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 6th April 1985
Set number: 509
Derby Etches Park allocated Class 120 DMU set 509 (M53657 + M59281 + M53725) in Lincoln St Marks station on 6 April 1985. Phil Bevan.
Date: 15th November 1986
Set number: 617
53706 + 59281 + 53652 at Falkirk Grahamston, having arrived with the 12:08 from Glasgow Queen Street on the 15th November 1986. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: 19th March 1987
Set number: 534
Swindon Cross Country DMU set 534 departs from Stirling Station on March 19, 1987. 53732, presumably with 59281 + 53686. David Christie.
Date: 16th April 1987
Set number: 534
Class 120 set 534 (Sc53686 + 59281 + Sc53732) are amongst many other DMU vehicles stabled at Thornton on the 16th April 1987. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: August 1987
Set number: 534
Swindon class 120 Cross Country set 534 (53686 + 59281 + 53732) are seen rasping through Princes Street Gardens with a service for Kirkcaldy late one afternoon in August 1987/ Murray Liston.
Date: August 1987
Set number: 534
Smoking towards Fife. A Swindon Cross Country class 120 set (534, presumably 53732 + 59281 + 53686) smokes into Haymarket tunnel one afternoon in August 1987 on an Edinburgh to Kirkcaldy stopping service. Murray Liston.