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Vehicle 59583


Class 120

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Lot Number: 30517
Diagram: 572

Allocations

Jan-61 New to 84E (Tyseley)
by Jun-62 Transferred to 83D (Laira)
Sep-63Depot code change84A
May-69 Transferred to 82A (Bristol Bath Road)
Nov-70 Transferred to 84A (Laira)
May-73Depot code changeLA
30/06/74 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
3w/e 07/05/77 Transferred to LA (Laira)
2w/e 12/01/80 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
Mar-80 Transferred to LA (Laira)
2w/e 10/05/80 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
04/01/82 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
11/05/86 Withdrawn from NH (Newton Heath)

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51577 59583 51586 Noted 12/08/68
BL513 51577 59583 51586 Noted circa Dec-69 - in blue grey livery
51577 59583 51586 Transfer to 84A - 5w/e 05/12/70
LA500 51577 59583 51586 Noted March 1971
LA500 51577 59583 51586 Listed at Laira - circa May-71
51577 59583 51586 Noted 18/11/1973 - Plymouth Railway Circle The Didcot Railtour
P556 51577 59583 51586 Noted 24/08/74 - on 2B16 0800 Cardiff-Bristol TM
P556 51577 59583 51586 Noted 07/09/74 - on 2V67 1600 Crewe-Cardiff with 55026 + C516
C556 51577 59583 51586 Noted 23/12/74 - on 2C46 1600 Weymouth-Cardiff with B468 + C506
C556 51577 59583 51586 Noted 08/01/75 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven with C512
C556 51577 59583 51586 Noted 19/06/75 - on 2B46 1615 Cardiff-Bristol TM
C556 51577 59583 51586 Noted 02/08/75 - on 2C54 2035 Weston SM-Cardiff with C311 and P800
C556 51577 59583 51586 Noted 26/08/75 - at Newport1
C556 51577 59583 51586 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
51577 59583 51586 Noted 30/08/76 - on 2Z75 1035 Newport-Cardiff Relief
51577 59583 51586 Transfer to LA - 3w/e 07/05/77
P556 51577 59583 51586 Listed at LA - 31st December 1977
556 51577 59583 51586 Transfer to CF - 2w/e 12/01/80
556 51577 59583 51586 Transfer to LA - Mar-80
P556 51577 59583 51586 Listed at LA - 03/03/80
556 51577 59583 51586 Transfer to CF - 2w/e 10/05/80
NH463 51577 59583 51586 Noted circa 05/19822
NH463 51586 59583 51577 Noted circa 10/1982 - operating from Newton Heath, previously C5562
51577 59583 51586 Noted 21/02/19832
51577 59583 51586 Noted 11/03/1984 - LCGB Staffordshire Ranger Railtour 53974-59387-51934 + 51586-59583-51577
53728 59583 53681 Formation change - NH - circa Sep-85
53728 59583 53681 Noted 14/01/86

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 120 DMU at Vic Berrys

29th June 1986

M59583 is one of several DMU vehicles to be seen at Vic Berry's yard in Leicester on 29/6/86, as well as M29566M. Ian Francis.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 8th September 1973

Set number: P556

Swindon Cross-Country DMU set P556 (presumably 51586 + 59583 + 51577) is calling at Axminster with the 18.03 from Exeter on 8 September 1973. Tom Burnham.

DMU

Date: 16th August 1975

Set number: C556

Class 120 Swindon Cross-Country DMU set C556 (W51586 and presumably 59583 + 51577) departs from Whitland on 18 August 1975 with the 13:33 service to Pembroke Dock. Robert Thomas.

DMU

Date: 15th July 1977

Set number: P556

Swindon Cross-Country Class 120 DMU set P556 (presumably 51577 + 59583 + 51586) at Dawlish on 15 July 1977. George Woods.

DMU

Date: 24th February 1979

Set number: P556

Plymouth-allocated class 120 Swindon Cross-Country DMU P556 (presumably 51586 + 59583 + 51577) in the platform at St Ives on February 24, 1979. Jeremy Chapter.

DMU

Date: 28th April 1979

Set number: P556

Class 120 DMU set P556 (51586 and presumably 59583 + 51577) in Newton Abbot station on Saturday 28 April 1979. David Russon.

DMU

Date: 30th April 1979

Set number: P556

At Newquay on 30 April 1979 is Laira set P556 that which that day comprised W51577, W59583 and W51586 which we had taken up the branch from Par. Alistair Ness.

DMU

Date: 3rd June 1982

Set number: C556

Still carrying a Cardiff set number and W prefixes, W51577 + W59583 + W51586 are seen at York on June 3, 1983. They had been transferred to Newton Heath that January. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 10th March 1984

On 10 March 1984, the LCGB "Staffordshire Ranger" rail tour is seen at Cheddleton station with a three-car Swindown Works "cross-country" and a Derby Works class 108 three-car. Six Bells Junction notes the vehicles as 51586 + 59583 + 51577 / 53974 + 59387 + 51934. Jeremy Chapter.