Vehicle 59495
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 | 81D (Reading) | |
| May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
| 13/01/93 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) NWRX | |
| 22/01/93 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) NWRX | |
| 24/02/93 | Reinstated | TS (Tyseley) RDTS | |
| 02/08/93 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX | |
| 09/08/93 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) RFXX |
Refurbished
At Swindon Works dated 17/11/1978 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | As delivered to Reading - April 1960 | ||||||
| RDG306 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at Reading - Aug-60 | |||||
| 406 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at Reading - Apr-68 - was R306, gangwayed set | |||||
| 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 25/08/69 - at Paddington1 | ||||||
| 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 02/10/1971 - at Birmingham New Street2 | ||||||
| 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 25/10/1971 - at Paddington2 | ||||||
| 51343 | 59538 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 28/08/73 - in Paddington1 | |||||
| 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 29/10/1973 - at Reading2 | ||||||
| L406 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 04/05/1974 - BR Western Region Outer Circle Railtour (L471+L403+L406) | |||||
| L406 | 50083 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak, set number L360 on 500833 | |||||
| 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 14/02/76 - on 13:15 Hereford - Oxford4 | ||||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at RG - 01/05/1976 | |||||
| 55031 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 08/09/76 - in Paddington3 | ||||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 05/1977 - Oxford Didcot Reading area5 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 26/05/1977 - Oxford Station5 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 07/10/1977 - Oxford to Didcot area5 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at RG - 31st December 1977 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 17/02/1980 - At Didcot Station P5 09425 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at RG - 03/03/80 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted circa 04/19826 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at RG - 15/12/1982 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at RG - 01/01/85 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at Reading - Summer 1986 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 21/06/19866 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 21/06/1986 - at West Drayton7 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 21/06/1986 - at Slough7 | |||||
| 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 04/06/87 - on 14:34 Paddington - Reading8 | ||||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at RG - Aug-87 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted circa 10/19876 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 16/04/19886 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at - 15/05/89 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted circa 10/19906 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Listed at RG - 21/01/91 | |||||
| L408 | 51343 | 59495 | 51385 | Noted 16/02/1991 - At London Paddington. 9 | |||||
| L730 | 53455 | 59495 | 51571 | Listed at RG - 12/08/92 | |||||
| L429 | 55029 | 59495 | 51409 | Listed at OO - November 1992 - Sector NWRX | |||||
| T410 | 51859 | 59495 | 59032 | 53124 | Noted circa 06/19936 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Phil Shatford
5: Shayne Lewis
6: Eddie Knorn
7: Robert Chilton
8: Martin Baumann
9: Dave Warby
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: unknown
Set number: L408
A Refurbished Pressed Steel built Class 117 set at Southall, date unknown. The DMBS is W51343, which spent its whole career allocated to Reading depot. Behind is presumably 59495. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 12th July 1980
Set number: L408
Class 117 DMU set L408 (presumably 51343 + 59495 + 51385) at Slough on 12 July 1980. Brian Daniels.
Date: 4th August 1981
Set number: L408
As L408 (presumably 51385 59495 51343) departs Maidenhead an unidentified HST approaches heading for London Paddington. 4th August 1981. Paul James.
Date: 4th August 1981
Set number: L408
Class 117 DMU L408 (presumably 51343 59495 51385) approaches Maidenhead station, 4th August 1981. Paul James.
Date: 23rd February 1983
Set number: L408
Class 117 DMU set L408 (presumably 51385 + 59495 + 51343) at Didcot North Junction on 23 February 1983. Brian Daniels.
Date: 28th April 1984
Set number: L408
Class 117 DMU L408 (presumably 51385 + 59495 + 51343) is seen from a Cross Country train in Reading station as its Class 47 locomotive (seen in the distance) runs round. The date is 28th April 1984. Bob Belcher.
Date: July 1985
Set number: L408
Class 117 DMU set L408 (W51385 and presumably W59495 + W51343) looking very clean when seen with an Oxford - Reading local at Lower Basildon, Thames Valley, in July 1985. Roger Geach.
Date: unknown
L408 (presumably 51385 + 59495 + 51343) with a second Class 117 DMU arrives at Taplow on 5 May 1990. Taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: circa January 1990
Set number: L408
Class 117 DMU set L408 (51343 and presumably 59495 + 51385) approaches Southall circa January 1990. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 17th December 1990
Set number: L408
Class 117 DMU set L408 - presumably 51385 + 59495 + 51343 - in Iver station with the 13.15 Paddington - Reading service on 17 December 1990. Dave Warby.
Date: circa late 1992
Set number: L129
55029 is a Class 117 power car stand in, working with 59495 + 51409, on the 12:48 Slough - Paddington at Hayes & Harlington. Undated, circa late 1992. Gazza Prescott.