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Vehicle 59300


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)
by Jun-62 Transferred to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
10/09/62 Transferred to 84E (Tyseley)
01/01/63Boundary change84Etransferred from WR to LMR stock
Sep-63Depot code change2A
Jan-64 Transferred to 82A (Bristol Bath Road)
4w/e 31/05/69 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
May-73Depot code changeDY
02/03/86 Withdrawn from DY (Derby Etches Park)

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 10/11/1978 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


EP473 50743 59300 50687 Noted circa Jun-69 - ex-BL519
50743 59300 50692 Noted 22/08/69 - at Crewe1
50737 59300 50692 Noted 05/11/70 - at Birmingham New Street1
50730 59300 50677 Noted 02/01/71
50730 59300 50677 Noted 16/01/71 - at Ipswich with 50692 + 59301 + 50737 on a Derby - Ipswich footex2
50741 59300 50656 Noted 16/01/72 - at Derby1
50703 59300 50663 Noted 04/04/73 - on 1150 Birmingham New Street-York
50730 59300 50663 Noted 11/08/73 - at March3
50730 59300 50651 Noted 25/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street4
50730 59300 50651 Noted 24/08/74 - at Nottingham3
EP578 50730 59300 50651 Noted 08/07/1975 - at Birmingham New Street5
50720 59300 50689 Noted 02/04/1976 - at Norwich5
50720 59300 50689 Noted 28/08/76 - on 1320 Crewe-Lincoln St Marks
50718 59300 50692 Noted 08/05/77 - on 0800 Crewe-Manchester Piccadilly
EP526 50743 59300 51794 Listed at DY - circa Jun-82
EP526 50743 59300 51794 Noted circa 06/19826
53743 59300 53665 Noted circa 10/1983 - 55743 labelled EP526, 53665 labelled EP5116
53703 59300 53665 Noted circa 12/19836
53703 59300 53665 Noted circa 11/19846
53703 59300 53665 Noted 18/01/85 - at Norwich3
EP527 53703 59300 53665 Noted 29/06/85 - at Norwich, 53665 carried set number EP5113
53703 59300 53665 Noted circa 10/19856
53703 59300 53665 Noted 10/01/86

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

Images:

Class 120 DMU at Chipping Campden

June 1963

A Swindon Cross-Country set on Chipping Campden bank in June 1963. The buffet car is W59300, the DMBC out of site to the left was W50743. Michael Mensing.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: March 1976

BR (Swindon) Cross Country Class 120 3-car dmu Nos.M50692 (Class 120/1), M59300 (Class 179) & M50741 (Class 120/2) in BR Rail Blue & Grey with all yellow front end about to depart Norwich (Thorpe) on a Birmingham (New St) service, 03/76. Hugh Llewelyn.

DMU

Date: 18th April 1981

M50718 + 59300 + 50654 with a Cleethorpes - Birmingham NS service at Grimsby Town on April 18, 1981. John Carter.