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Vehicle 59402

Class 126

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: White Circle
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30416
Diagram: 571

Allocations

18/04/59	New to	67C (Ayr)
06/05/73	Depot code change	AY
17/05/82	Stored S.	AY (Ayr)
circa Jul-82	Stored U.	AY (Ayr)
11/08/82	Withdrawn from	AY (Ayr)

Notes

16/05/59 - A number of odd Class 126 vehicle had arrived in Scotland from Swindon and in some cases have been marshalled into Edinburgh-Glasgow sets. Five vehicles, including 51012, 51013, 59402 and 59402, were in Lugton goods yard on 16th May 1959.
30th April 1983 - Seen in Falkland Yard

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51033	59402	51029	Noted 25/02/60
	51033	59402	51031	Noted 10/03/60
	51033	59402	51023	Noted 13/03/60
	51034	59402	51023	Noted 15/04/60
	51038	59402	51016	Noted 09/07/60
	51051	59402	51015	Noted 10/12/60
	51036	59402	51015	Noted 05/01/61
	51035	59402	51015	Noted 12/01/61
	51031	59402	51015	Noted 14/02/61
	51035	59402	51009	Noted 01/04/61
	51034	59402	51011	Noted 06/04/61
	51031	59402	51012	Noted 01/07/61
	51046	59402	50936	Noted 05/07/61
171	51050	59402	51023	Listed at 67C - Aug-70
	51030	59402	51008	Noted 11/09/71 - at Ayr station sidings¹
	51033	59402	51010	Noted 25/07/1972 - at Ayr²
	51041	59402	51015	Noted 17/04/73 - in Glasgow Central³
	51042	59402	51019	Noted 26/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central⁴
	51042	59402	51025	Noted 05/09/73 - at Ayr³
109	51039	59402	51017	Noted 25/08/75 - in Glasgow Central³
410	51040	59402	51013	Listed at AY - 01/02/81
126419	51049	59402	51018	Noted 1st July 1981
126404	51034	59402	51029	Listed at AY - 01/04/82

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Jeremy Goodyear

Images:

circa April 1959

Compartment F (second class) of Sc59402. A mini table is fitted but there were also brackets for a larger table to be fitted (stored in the end of the vehicle). There is a Trafolyte tablet above the window noting what the paneling is - 'Tapestry Dove Grey Formica'. The seat covering would be green (with black pattern) moquette. The vehicle was an Swindon Inter-City composite trailer car (TCKL) built for the Glasgow - Ayr/Girvan/Stranraer route. A Swindon Works image - negative 5CR/136, recorded in the Works photograph ledger as taken on 18 June 1959 yet the vehicle was new to Ayr in April so likely taken around that time. British Railways.

circa April 1959

The corridor of Sc59402 taken from the second class end. A swing door divided the four second class compartments from the three first class. It is wedged open in this view but was just past the exterior door - note the divider in the ceiling. The 1956/7 build for the WR/E&G line had veneer paneling along the corridor on the exterior side, this batch had Formica paneling and also had the formica panel inlays on the lower compartment side. The vehicle was an Swindon Inter-City composite trailer car (TCKL) built for the Glasgow - Ayr/Girvan/Stranraer route. A Swindon Works image - negative 5CR/137, recorded in the Works photograph ledger as taken on 18 June 1959 yet the vehicle was new to Ayr in April so likely taken around that time. British Railways.

24th October 1982

Scrapper. Swindon Class 126 Trailer Sc59402 languishes at Falkland Yard (Down Side) adjacent to the beach. This is the corridor side, the compartments and lavatories were on the other side. Originally a Composite it was declassified to all Second and is shown as a TSL on the vehicle end, above the 'White Circle'. Withdrawn Swindon vehicles were stored here or at the former Co-op Coal Sidings to the south of Ayr station prior to component recovery, boarding up and onward rail transfer for scrap. Sunday 24 October 1982 alicia hartman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 26th February 1977

A 6-car Class 126 formation (SC51020 + SC59402 + SC51032 / SC51049 + SC59411 + SC51027) heads north out of Newton-on-Ayr station on 26-02-77. Vincent Haworth.

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