Vehicle 59492
Class 117
Builder: Pressed Steel
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30547
Diagram: 601
Allocations
| Apr-60 | New to | 81C (Southall) | |
| Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
| 2w/e 10/04/76 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) | |
| w/e 01/05/77 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
| 2w/e 11/11/78 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) | |
| w/e 30/12/78 | Transferred to | LA (Laira) | |
| 16/05/82 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) | |
| 06/07/87 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
| 06/04/94 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) RAHV | |
| Sep-99 | Withdrawn from | HA (Haymarket) | |
| Nov-99 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) HAXX | |
| Mar-00 | Sector Change to | HQ (Headquarters) SAXH |
Refurbished
At Swindon Works dated 29/12/1978 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Preserved - more details.
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| SHL302 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at - Aug-60 - perhaps SHL303? | |||||
| 453 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at Southall - Apr-68 - was S302, non-gangwayed set | |||||
| 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted 02/09/69 - at Paddington1 | ||||||
| 50083 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted 28/08/73 - in Paddington1 | ||||||
| L453 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted 31/01/76 - on 2A70 1118 Paddington-Didcot with L413 | |||||
| 50082 | 59492 | 50916 | Noted 04/09/76 - at Cardiff1 | ||||||
| T313 | 50082 | 59492 | 50916 | Noted 04/09/76 - in Cardiff Central2 | |||||
| TS550 | 50082 | 59492 | 50124 | Noted 12/09/77 - at Aberystwyth, showing signs of having been T3442 | |||||
| P317 | 50858 | 59492 | 50911 | Noted 22/06/79 - at Par | |||||
| P317 | 50858 | 59492 | 50911 | Noted 20/07/79 - at Exmouth | |||||
| P317 | 50858 | 59492 | 50911 | Listed at LA - 03/03/80 | |||||
| B438 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at BR - 15/12/1982 | |||||
| B438 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted 03/02/83 - on 2M73 1845 Cardiff-Birmingham New Street | |||||
| B438 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted circa 10/19833 | |||||
| B438 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at BR - 01/01/85 | |||||
| B438 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted 13/03/19863 | |||||
| B438 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at Bristol (Bath Road) - Summer 1986 | |||||
| B438 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted 21/06/1986 - at West Drayton4 | |||||
| 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Transfer to TS - 06/07/87 - from BR | ||||||
| T313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988 | |||||
| T313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted 09/07/88 - at Norwich2 | |||||
| T313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - 01/09/89 | |||||
| T313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - 01/12/89 | |||||
| 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot5 | ||||||
| T313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - mid May-90 | |||||
| T313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted circa 09/19903 | |||||
| T313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - Jul-91 | |||||
| T313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - Aug-91 | |||||
| 51339 | 59492 | 51144 | Noted circa 09/19913 | ||||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - Dec-91 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - 02/07/92 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted circa 09/19923 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - 24/09/92 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - November 1992 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - 10/12/92 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Noted 19/06/93 - at Norwich2 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at TS - November 1993 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at HA - 02/12/96 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at HA - 01/01/98 | |||||
| 117313 | 51339 | 59492 | 51382 | Listed at HA - 23/11/98 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Robert Chilton
5: Jeremy Goodyear
Images:
10th February 1999
Set number: 117313
Gangway connection between Trailer Lavatory Composite 59492 and Driving Motor Brake Second 51339 of class 117 3-car suburban DMU No. 117313 at Haymarket Depot, Edinburgh, 10th February, 1999. Michael Laing.
10th February 1999
Set number: 117313
Interior of the second-class saloon in Trailer Lavatory Composite 59492 of class 117 3-car suburban DMU No. 117313 at Haymarket Depot, Edinburgh, 10th February, 1999. Michael Laing.
10th February 1999
Set number: 117313
Interior of the former first-class saloon (downgraded to second-class) in Trailer Lavatory Composite 59492 of class 117 3-car suburban DMU No. 117313 at Haymarket Depot, Edinburgh, 10th February, 1999. Far more comfortable and spacious seats than you're likely to find in any suburban train operating today! Michael Laing.
10th February 1999
Set number: 117313
Gangway connection between Trailer Lavatory Composite 59492 and Driving Motor Second car 51382 of class 117 3-car suburban DMU No. 117313 at Haymarket Depot, Edinburgh, 10th February, 1999. Michael Laing.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 25th May 1977
Set number: TS548
Tyseley set TS548 is seen passing the site of Whitacre station with the 6.14pm Leicester - Birmingham New Street on 25 May 1977. It is a hybrid set, the centre car is a Class 117, Tyseley received two of these from Cardiff Canton a few weeks previous - 59492 and 59502. The power cars are Class 116s, closest is thought to be 50904 which also moved from Canton with the centre cars. Michael Mensing.
Date: 1979
Set number: P317
Refurbished Class 116 set P317 (presumably 50858 + 59492 + 50911) in Barnstaple station in 1979. John Law.
Date: circa 1979
Set number: P317
Class 116 set P317 seen in Plymouth Laira depot, circa 1979. Presumed to be 50911 + 59492 + 50858. Malcolm Clements.
Date: 22nd July 1979
Set number: P317
Set P317 - A 3-Car Class 116 DMU with W50911 leading, presumably with 59492 + 50858, awaits departure from the single remaining operational platform at Exmouth with a service to Exeter St Davids on the 22nd July 1979. The unit was in the short-lived refurbished white with a blue stripe livery. The station had recently been rationalised, the redundant island platform with its Southern Railway canopy is on the left of this scene. A far cry from the busy Summer Saturdays of old, when trains to and from London Waterloo and the North served the East Devon seaside town. Martyn Hilbert.
Date: 22nd July 1979
Set number: P317
Under blue skies, redundant railway land and a boarded-up signalbox greet a refurbished Class 116 three-car DMU (P317 - 50858, 59492, 50911), as it was arriving at the East Devon seaside resort of Exmouth with a service from Exeter St Davids on July 22nd 1979. A far-cry from the days when on a Summer Saturday the terminus here handled through services to London Waterloo and the North. Martyn Hilbert.
Date: 16th April 1981
Set number: P317
50911 heads P317 presumably with 59492 + 50858 when seen at Scorrier on the 16th April 1981. Steve Davies Collection.
Date: 18th July 1983
Set number: B438
Class 117 DMU set B438 (51382 and presumably 59492 + 51339) approaching Highbridge with the 14:10 Bristol - Taunton service on 18 July 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 14th October 1983
Set number: B438
Class 117 DMU set B438 (51382 and presumably 59492 + 51339) approaches Monument Lane at 12:09 with the 10:28 Hereford-Birmingham New Street service on Friday 14 October 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 6th June 1984
Set number: B438
Class 117 DMU set B438 (51382 and presumably 59492 + 51339) leaving Frome with the 11:05 Weymouth - Westbury working on 6 June 1984. Michael Mensing.
Date: 20th July 1984
Set number: B438
B438 (presumably 51339 + 59492 + 51382) and C803 with the 14:05 Canton depot - Swansea ECS on Porthkerry Bank, 20 July 1984. Image taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: circa mid-1980s
Set number: B438
A Class 117 DMU at Llanwern (Newport). It looks like it could be set B438 and so presumably 51339 + 59492 + 51382. Noted as taken in 1984, the slide process date was April 1986 - so circa mid-1980s. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 23rd June 1985
Set number: B438
Class 117 DMU, set B438 (presumably 51382 + 59492 + 51339) approaches Wellington AHB with a down service. At this time there was a Shrewsbury-Cardiff service that ran in the early afternoon that was a DMU, and this is most probably that train. 23rd June 1985. John Crooks.
Date: mid-1985
Set number: B438
Class 117 DMU set B438 (presumably 51382 + 59492 + 51339) arrives into Frome station in mid-1985. Michael Mensing.
Date: 25th January 1986
Set number: B438
With the winter light casting long shadows Class 117 DMU set B438 (presumably 51382 + 59492 + 51339) arrives into Bristol Temple Meads on 25 January 1986. The caption written on the slide noted is as a service from Salisbury, yet the direction suggests otherwise, and Westbury is on the destination blind. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 28th May 1986
Set number: B438
A well filled Class 117 3-Car DMU with 51382 trailing and presumably with 59492 + 51339, departs from Starcross with the 17.20 Exeter St Davids to Paignton stopping service on May 28th 1986. Martyn Hilbert.
Date: August 1986
Set number: B438
Class 117 DMU set B438 - 51382 + 59492 + 51339 - plus another unit, in platform 1 at Weymouth in August 1986. Rob Paterson.
Date: 2nd August 1986
Set number: B438
Class 117 DMU set B438 (51339 and presumably 59492 + 51382) leads the 12:56 SO Weymouth-Bristol Temple Meads service into Salisbury on 2 August 1986. Robert Thomas.
Date: 10th August 1986
Set number: B464
The 15:25 Weymouth - Taunton service is a nine-car formation with Class 118 B464 (W51321 + W59473 + W51306) at the front followed by Class 117s W51370 + W59522 + W51412 / W51339 + W59492 + W51382. Seen at Yeovil PM on August 10th, 1986. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: 13th June 1987
Set number: B438
Class 117 DMU set No. B438 (Nos. 51339, 59492 and 51382) arrives at Gloucester working the 14:13 service to Taunton on 13 June 1987. Brian Creasey.
Date: July 1988
Set number: T313
Pressed Steel Class 117 3-car Suburban dmu No.T313 (presumably 51382 + 59492 + 51339) in Birmingham New Street with another set in July 1988. Hugh Llewelyn.
Date: 5th September 1988
Set number: T313
87010 heads a southbound passenger service on the Up Fast past a Class 117 DMU, set T313 presumably 51339 + 59492 + 51382, heading in the opposite direction at Norton Bridge station. 5th September 1988. John Crooks.
Date: 30th August 1989
Set number: T313
Class 117 Set T313 (presumably 51382 + 59492 + 51339) and Set T342 with a Llandudno - Birmingham New Steet aervice arrived at Prestatyn (at 15XX) on Wednesday 30th August 1989. Colin Brooks.
Date: 6th September 1990
Set number: T313
Class 117 set T313 (51382 closest, presumably with 59492 + 51339) at Redditch on September 6, 1990. John Carter.
Date: circa 1993
Set number: 117313
Another class 117, this one formed of 3 coaches (presumably 51382 + 59492 + 51339), is pictured here climbing from the Birmingham Snow Hill LIne towards St Andrews Junction and Birmingham New Street. The train is running ECS from Tyseley depot to New Street where, according to the destination panel, it would make the long run to Skegness. Circa 1993. Peter Tandy.
Date: circa early 1990s
Set number: 117313
Pressed Steel DMU set 117313 (51382 + 59492 + 51339) departs from Five Ways station with a Lichfield City service, date unknown - circa early 1990s. Glyn Weigh.
Date: 1994
Set number: 117213
Haymarket depot DMU sidings in 1994. There are three Pressed Steel sets (including 117213 - presumably 51339 + 59492 + 51382 - and 117301 - presumably 51353 + 59505 + 51395) all idling. There are at least two Regional Railways liveried Met-Camm centre cars to their right - probably left behind from the three-car sets that moved to Corkerhill as two-cars. To their right are Strathclyde liveried 107s. S Saunders.
Date: 25th April 1994
Set number: 117213
In the fading light of the 25th April 1994, 117213 (51339 + 59492 + 51382) are seen leaving Haymarket station with the 17:03 Edinburgh - Thornton. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: 8th May 1994
Set number: 117213
117213 (presumably 51382 + 59492 + 51339) heading north at Moy on 08/05/94 5Z60 1125 Perth - Inverness for NRN fitment at Inverness TMD. Roddy MacPhee.
Date: June 1994
Set number: 117313
A pair of three-car Class 117 DMUs in Regional Railways livery stands in the bay at the north end of Edinburgh Waverley station in June 1994. Closest is set 117313 presumably 51382 + 59492 + 51339. Andrew Walker.
Date: 12th August 1994
Set number: 117313
117 313 (presumably 51339 + 59492 + 51382) in Edinburgh Waverley on 12/8/94. John Reddyhoff.
Date: 17th July 1996
Set number: 117313
Leaving Edinburgh Waverley with car 51382 leading is set 117 313 (presumably with 59492 + 51339) on 17th July 1996. Ian Buck.
Date: 10th February 1999
Set number: 117313
Gangway connection between Driving Motor Brake Second 51339 and Trailer Lavatory Composite 59492 of class 117 3-car suburban DMU No. 117313 at Haymarket Depot, Edinburgh, 10th February, 1999. Michael Laing.
Date: 10th February 1999
Set number: 117313
Class 117 3-car suburban DMUs Nos. 117313 (51382 + 59492 + 51339) and 117306 (51411) stand outside the shunters' bothy at Haymarket Depot, Edinburgh, prior to working evening rush-hour Fife Circle services on 10th February, 1999. 117306 has arrived from the east end of the repair shed which can be see in the right background. Michael Laing.