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Vehicle 59297


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 24/01/59 New to BL (Bristol Marsh Junction)
30/07/62 Transferred to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
Sep-63Depot code change86A
by Jan-69 Transferred to 82A (Bristol Bath Road)
w/e 07/06/69 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
May-73Depot code changeDY
by Sep-84 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
20/04/86 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
2w/e 08/06/86 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)
28/09/86 Reinstated HA (Haymarket)
Aug-87 Withdrawn from HA (Haymarket)

Notes

14/09/78 - A Glasgow Works visit found 56291, 56297 and 56299, all withdrawn, distributed around the yard. Also 50745, W in 1976, 51447, W in 9/77, and 51803, which was recorded as being a “wreck”, and stored 51784.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50734 59297 50671 Noted circa Mar-67 - in plain blue livery
50734 59297 50671 Noted Aug-67 - in plain blue livery
BL507 50734 59297 50671 Noted circa Nov-67 - in plain blue with yellow panel ends
50727 59297 50679 Noted circa Nov-67 - in blue grey with full yellow ends
EP493 50714 59297 50663 Noted circa Jun-69
50671 59297 50734 Noted 22/08/69 - at Crewe1
50697 59297 50671 Noted 15/11/70 - on Norwich depot2
50697 59297 50671 Noted 19/11/70 - at Peterborough1
50731 59297 50657 Noted 21/08/71 - at Derby1
50718 59297 50684 Noted 30/04/72 - in Birmingham New Street1
50717 59297 50650 Noted 24/12/73 - at Derby1
50717 59297 56050 Noted 30/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street3
EP577 50717 59297 50650 Noted 10/08/74 - at Peterborough4
50719 59297 50663 Noted 15/10/75 - at Bury St Edmunds4
50719 59297 50663 Noted 08/05/1976 - at Loughborough 5
50719 59297 50663 Noted 28/08/76 - at Thetford4
50719 59297 50663 Noted 04/12/76
50719 59297 50663 Noted 31/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds4
50719 59297 50663 Noted 27/05/1979 - on 13:00 Coventry to Nuneaton (Special service)5
50719 59297 50663 Noted 22/08/81 - at Norwich4
EP502 50709 59297 50663 Listed at DY - circa Jun-82
50709 59297 50650 Noted circa 03/1983 - 50709 labelled EP502, 60650 labelled EP5086
53709 59297 53650 Noted circa 09/19836
EP502 53709 59297 51794 Noted circa 03/19846
53709 59297 51794 Listed at NH - circa Jan-86
53709 59297 51794 Transfer to AY - 2w/e 15/04/86
531 53709 59297 51794 Noted May 1986
506 53708 59297 53672 Formation change - HA - September 1986
506 53708 59297 53672 Noted 06/12/19866
506 53708 59297 53672 Noted 11th December 1986
506 53708 59297 53672 Listed at HA - 23/03/87

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Ipswich Transport Society
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Peter Wallwork
6: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 120 DMU at Edinburgh Waverley

Unknown date

Class 120 TSRB 59297 in a set about to depart from Edinburgh Waverley. Date unknown. Andrew McConnell.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 10th August 1979

A Class 120 Swindon Cross Country set with a 101 on the rear = M50719, M59297, M50326 at Swindon on August 10, 1979. I wonder if it was going into the Works as Swindon was overhauling DMUs then, certainly can't have been en route to Redditch. John Carter.

DMU

Date: circa 1987

Set number: 506

53672 at the front of DMU set 506 (presumably with 59297 + 53708) in Haymarket station circa 1987. A Strathclyde-liveried Class 107 departs from the adjacent platform. Mike Bunker.

DMU

Date: circa 1987

Set number: 506

Class 120 DMU set 506 (53708, the centre should be 59297, 53672 is at the far end) departs from Haymarket for the last 1 1/4 mile of its journey to Edinburgh Waverley. Circa 1987. Mike Bunker.

DMU

Date: 26th April 1987

Set number: 506

53672 + 59297 + 53708 seen at Thornton Yard on the 26th April 1987. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: 23rd May 1987

Set number: 506

Class 120 Swindon Cross-Country set 506 (53672 + 59297 + 53708) about to enter Edinburgh Waverley station with the 10:06 from Cowdenbeath - on the 23rd May 1987. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: 23rd May 1987

Set number: 506

Class 120 set 506 (53708 + 59297 + 53672) leaves Edinburgh Waverley station with the 11:03 Edinburgh - Cowdenbeath service on May 23, 1987. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: 13th December 1987

Set number: 506

On December 13, 1987 set 506 (53708 + 59297 + 53672) is seen stabled in Haymarket depot beside set 101302. Hamish Stevenson.