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Vehicle 59603

Class 127

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square / Red Triangle
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30522
Diagram: 589

Allocations

The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 51619 during the unknown period are:

12/09/59	New to	Chaddesden	- pending allocation
Dec-59	Transferred to	14A (Cricklewood)

Then the allocations for 59603 are:

17/07/83	Transferred to	TS (Tyseley)
04/10/93	Transferred to	HQ (Headquarters) RFXX
15/10/93	Withdrawn from	HQ (Headquarters) RFXX

Notes

19/05/84 - Tyseley formation 53055 / 59611 / 53116 + 53890 / 59603 / 53837 visited the Hastings area on 19 May 1984 on a working from Bicester.
07/01/91 - part of 18:23 Redditch - Lichfield TV
27/10/92 - part of 13:53 Redditch - Lichfield TV

Refurbished

At Derby Works dated 16/12/1983 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Preserved - more details.

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51619	59603	59633	51620	As delivered to Chaddesden sidings - 12th September 1959 - stabled pending allocation
	51596	59643	59603	51617	Noted 01/09/1962 - Kettering¹
	51606	59603	59648	51607	Noted 23/08/75 - at Kentish Town²
	51606	59603	59648	51607	Noted 09/09/1975 - at Luton ³
	51592	59603	59636	51646	Noted 20/03/76 - on 05.17 Bedford – St. Pancras⁴
	51622	59603	59636	51648	Noted 12/06/76 - on 05.17 Bedford – St. Pancras⁴
	51591	59603	59648	51648	Noted 15/01/79 - on 15.16 Luton – Bedford⁴
	51614	59603	59629	51645	Noted 28/04/79 - on 03.40 Cricklewood – St. Pancras⁴
	51612	59603	59629	51614	Noted 02/05/79 - on 06.15 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51612	59603	59629	51614	Noted 11/05/79 - on 15.03 Luton – Cricklewood⁴
	51612	59603	59629	51614	Noted 15/05/79 - on 05.05 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51612	59603	59629	51614	Noted 17/05/79 - on 13.09 Cricklewood – Luton⁴
	51612	59603	59629	51614	Noted 20/05/79 - on 08.20 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51614	59603	59629	51643	Noted 26/05/79 - on 23.46 Luton – Bedford⁴
	51614	59603	59629	51643	Noted 28/05/79 - on 12.09 Cricklewood – Luton with 51605 + 59609 + 59631 + 51612⁴
	51614	59603	59629	51643	Noted circa 06/1979⁵
	51614	59603	59629	51643	Noted 08/06/79 - on 19.05 St. Pancras – Cricklewood⁴
	51614	59603	59629	51643	Noted 09/06/79 - on 05.35 St. Pancras – Bedford⁴
	51614	59603	59629	51615	Noted 20/06/79 - on 21.15 Luton – Cricklewood⁴
	51606	59603	59622	51649	Noted 12/10/79 - on 12.03 Luton – Cricklewood⁴
	51606	59603	59622	51649	Noted 13/10/79 - on 22.40 Luton – Bedford⁴
	51638	59603	59622	51649	Noted 24/10/79 - on 11.00 Bedford – Luton and 15.35 St. Pancras – Bedford⁴
	51638	59603	59622	51649	Noted 25/10/79 - on 14.02 Cricklewood – St. Pancras⁴
	51638	59603	59622	51649	Noted 30/10/79 - on 07.32 St. Albans – Cricklewood⁴
	51638	59603	59622	51649	Noted 31/10/79 - on 12.42 Cricklewood – St. Pancras⁴
	51591	59603	59637	51612	Noted 19/12/79 - on 07.47 Luton – St. Albans⁴
	51612	59603	59637	51620	Noted 04/01/80 - on a Bedford – Cricklewood working⁴
	51612	59603	59637	51620	Noted 18/01/80 - on 19.52 St. Albans – Bedford⁴
	51612	59603	59637	51620	Noted 23/01/80 - on 16.05 St. Pancras – Cricklewood⁴
	51612	59603	59637	51626	Noted 11/02/80 - on 14.02 Cricklewood – St. Pancras⁴
	51635	59603	59633	51638	Noted 20/05/80 - on 15.38 St. Pancras – Bedford⁴
	51635	59603	59633	51638	Noted 20/06/80 - on 10.20 Luton – Cricklewood and 17.56 St. Albans – Bedford⁴
	51635	59603	59633	51638	Noted 25/06/80 - on 13.16 Luton – Bedford⁴
	51635	59603	59633	51638	Noted 15/07/80 - on 18.42 St. Albans – Bedford⁴
	51635	59603	59633	51638	Noted 20/07/80 - on 13.15 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51635	59603	59633	51638	Noted 13/08/80 - on 16.03 Luton – Cricklewood⁴
	51626	59603	59633	51635	Noted 10/09/80 - on 16.51 Barking – Kentish Town⁴
	51624	59603	59633	51626	Noted 18/09/80 - on 02.05 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51626	59603	59633	51644	Noted 05/10/80 - on 19.52 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51604	59603	59633	51644	Noted 24/10/80 - on 16.05 St. Pancras – Cricklewood⁴
	51604	59603	59633	51644	Noted 26/10/80 - on 16.20 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51604	59603	59633	51644	Noted 04/11/80 - on 02.30 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51644	59603	59633	51645	Noted 18/11/80 - on 16.05 St. Pancras – Cricklewood⁴
	51617	59603	59633	51644	Noted 15/12/80 - on 02.30 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51617	59603	59633	51644	Noted 18/12/80 - on 10.09 Cricklewood – Luton⁴
	51595	59603	59633	51621	Noted 04/01/81 - on 2G10 14.30 St Pancras – Bedford⁴
	51595	59603	59633	51621	Noted 19/01/81 - on 2H08 11.57 St. Pancras – Luton and 2C39 13.00 Luton – St Pancras⁴
	51595	59603	59633	51634	Noted 02/02/81 - on 2H12 16.05 St. Pancras – Luton⁴
	51593	59603	59633	51595	Noted 14/02/81 - on 2C07 05.05 Bedford – St Pancras⁴
	51593	59603	59633	51596	Noted 10/03/81 - on 2C17 07.47 Luton – St. Albans⁴
	51618	59603	59633	51638	Noted 26/03/81 - on 2C45 23.10 Bedford – St Pancras⁴
	51618	59603	59633	51638	Noted 29/03/81 - on 2G18 22.20 St Pancras – Bedford⁴
	51638	59603	59633	51646	Noted 15/04/81 - on 2C56 20.10 Bedford – St Pancras⁴
	51620	59603	59633	51638	Noted 27/04/81 - on 23.53 St. Pancras – Cricklewood⁴
	51620	59603	59633	51638	Noted 30/04/81 - on 2K05 17.44 St Pancras – St Albans⁴
	51633	59603	59621	51650	Noted 18/08/81 - on 2K05 17.44 St Pancras – St Albans⁴
	51596	59603	59639	51598	Noted 11/12/81 - on 2H10 13.57 St Pancras – Luton⁴
	51607	59603	59639	51618	Noted 18/12/81 - on 2H12 16.05 St Pancras – Luton⁴
	51607	59603	59639	51618	Noted 03/01/82 - on 12.00 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51607	59603	59639	51618	Noted 15/01/82 - on 16.05 St. Pancras – Cricklewood⁴
	51607	59603	59639	51618	Noted 23/01/82 - on 20.23 St. Pancras – Cricklewood and 23.46 Luton – Bedford⁴
	51607	59603	59639	51618	Noted 30/01/82 - on 14.14 West Hampstead – Cricklewood and 16.45 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51607	59603	59639	51618	Noted 17/02/82 - on 14.00 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51607	59603	59639	51618	Noted 26/02/82 - on 14.00 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51628	59603	59647	51642	Noted 02/06/82 - on 11.36 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51603	59603	59638	51625	Noted 05/08/82 - on 18.25 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51597	59603	59626	51624	Noted 11/08/82 - on 06.15 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51597	59603	59631	51624	Noted 21/08/82 - on 03.30 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51597	59603	59631	51624	Noted 26/08/82 - on 10.09 Cricklewood – Luton⁴
	51597	59603	59631	51624	Noted 27/08/82 - on 07.44 St. Pancras – Harpenden and 08.48 Harpenden – Bedford⁴
	51597	59603	59631	51624	Noted 01/09/82 - on 15.00 Bedford – Luton⁴
	51597	59603	59631	51624	Noted 01/09/82 - on 22.35 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51597	59603	59631	51624	Noted 03/09/82 - on 21.35 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51597	59603	59631	51624	Noted 21/09/82 - on 02.30 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51597	59603	59631	51624	Noted 05/10/82 - on 04.25 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51597	59603	59631	51624	Noted 07/10/82 - on 07.30 St. Albans – Cricklewood⁴
	51637	59603	59631	51647	Noted 10/11/82 - on 23.14 Luton – Bedford⁴
	51633	59603	59628	51649	Noted 13/01/83 - on 03.31 Cricklewood – Bedford and 22.34 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51633	59603	59628	51649	Noted 15/01/83 - on 21.45 Luton – Cricklewood⁴
	51633	59603	59628	51649	Noted 18/01/83 - on 12.39 Cricklewood – St. Pancras⁴
	51633	59603	59628	51649	Noted 21/01/83 - on 08.50 Bedford – Luton⁴
	51633	59603	59628	51649	Noted 25/01/83 - on 20.17 Cricklewood – St. Albans⁴
	51633	59603	59628	51649	Noted 29/01/83 - on 12.50 Bedford – Cricklewood⁴
	51633	59603	59628	51650	Noted circa 02/1983⁵
	51633	59603	59628	51650	Noted 03/02/83 - on 16.50 St. Pancras – Luton and 17.55 Luton – St. Pancras⁴
	51633	59603	59628	51650	Noted 04/03/83 - on 11.05 Bedford – Luton⁴
	51633	59603	59628	51650	Noted 24/03/83 - on 05.35 St. Pancras – Bedford⁴
	51603	59603	59628	51622	Noted 10/04/83 - on 23.27 Cricklewood – Bedford⁴
	51603	59603	59628	51622	Noted 11/04/83 - on 16.05 St. Pancras – Cricklewood⁴
	51603	59603	59628	51622	Noted 12/04/83 - on 23.14 Luton – Bedford⁴
	51646	59603	59643	51611	Noted circa 05/1983⁵
TS610	53837	59603	53890		Noted circa 04/1984⁵
TS610	53837	59603	53890		Noted circa 10/1984⁵
TS610	53837	59603	53890		Noted 14/02/1985⁵
TS610	53837	59603	53890		Listed at TS - May-85
TS513	53077	59603	53120		Noted 14/02/1986⁵
TS609	53853	59603	53894		Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986
TS609	53853	59603	53894		Noted circa 06/1986⁵
TS609	53853	59603	53894		Noted 06/09/86 - at Norwich²
T623	53838	59603	53893		Listed at TS - Jul-87
T417	51877	59734	59603	53893	Noted circa 07/1987⁵
T417	51877	59734	59603	53893	Formed at TS Jul-87
T417	51877	59734	59603	53893	Noted 13/09/87 - at Norwich²
T417	51877	59603	59444	53893	Noted circa 01/1988⁵
T417	51877	59444	59603	51146	Formation change - TS - 2w/e 13/03/88 - 51146 (ex-T402) replaced 53893 (to T402)
T417	51877	59444	59603	53893	Formation change - TS - circa early Apr-88 - 51146 (to T402) replaced by 53893 (ex-T402)
T417	51877	59603	59444	53893	Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
T417	51877	59603	59444	53893	Noted circa 05/1988⁵
T326	53822	59603	53881		Listed at TS - 01/09/89
T417	51877	59603	59726	53897	Listed at TS - 01/12/89
	51877	59603	59335	53897	Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot⁶
T417	51877	59335	59603	53897	Listed at TS - mid May-90
T417	51892	59603	59335	53897	Noted circa 12/1990⁵
T416	51876	59603	59648	53891	Listed at TS - Jul-91
T419	51884	59629	59603	51151	Listed at TS - Jul-91
spare	59603				Listed at TS - Aug-91
spare	59603				Listed at TS - Dec-91
T404	51853	59604	59603	53919	Noted circa 09/1992⁵
T404	51853	59603	59604	53919	Listed at TS - 24/09/92
T404	51853	59603	59604	53919	Listed at TS - November 1992
T415	53055	59603	53916	51151	Noted circa 11/1992⁵
T415	53055	59603	53916		Listed at TS - 10/12/92
	53055	59603	53101		Noted 10/12/92 - on 17:18 Longbridge - Blake Street⁷
T424	53055	59603	51151	53101	Noted 29/05/1993 - at Birmingham New Street⁸
T424	53055	59603	51329	51314	Noted circa 08/1993⁵

Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Phil Shatford
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Jeremy Goodyear
7: David Bellamy
8: Martin Lumley

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: circa May 1979

A Class 127 formed of 51614 + 59629 + 59603 + 51612 at Cricklewood. The slide process date was May 1979. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 15th July 1984

Set number: TS610

A lengthy class 116 dmu passes High Wycombe on 15 July 1984, returning empty to Tyseley. It is believed to have worked to Welshpool the previous day. Leading is set TS610, presumably 53890 + 59603 + 53837. Robert28194.

Date: April 1985

Set number: TS623

No room in the bays. This was the scene one Saturday morning in April 1985 with every bay road on the down side at Leamington Spa occupied. The train on the left has a window board reading T619 but it appears to be a single unit as was the practice at the time, preparing to head off to Stratford-upon-Avon within the next few minutes. Next in line is 58 016 which was also getting ready to move out onto the main line. This was a weekly occurrence at the time and I seem to recall that the locomotive involved may have taken over a northbound freightliner with the other engine coming off the train but I didn't make any notes and can't remember exactly what happened. To the right of 58 016 is T623, probably formed of 53893 + 59603 + 53838, and then a second class 116 with no set number visible. The latter 2 units were stabled ready to work trains to Birmingham Moor Street later in the day. Peter Tandy.

Date: 4th June 1986

Set number: TS609

Early in the morning of 4 June 1986, while waiting for the weedkiller with 47 013 to arrive I took this shot of a class 116 (TS609, presumably 53894 + 59603 (a 127) + 53853) leaving the siding to form the 06.30 to Birmingham with the driver Oliver, whose surname I forget, standing in the cab. At this time, Stratford was a signing-on and stabling point and if one was lucky a unit would have been put in this siding on the previous night. This piece of track was not regularly used and I was pleased to get this shot with the lower quadrant signal in the "off" position, even though the sun was not yet properly on the track. Peter Tandy.

Date: 29th August 1986

Set number: TS609

An interesting train on the North Warwickshire line to Birmingham in 1986 was the daily train booked to start at 08.13 from Henley-in-Arden which had arrived earlier and was routed into the bay platform; the only service so to do. This gave the rare opportunity to photograph a unit in the otherwise unused platform 3 and to take a picture with the signal in the clear position. I should like to have had a picture of the DMU nearer the signal but wanted to catch it for the onward journey. The train, formed of the usual class 116 3 car set on this occasions TS609 (presumably 53894 + 59603 (a 127) + 53853), is seen here on 29 August 1986 with the guard returning to his van in order to give the right of way to the driver. Peter Tandy.

Date: 10th March 1990

Set number: T417

Tyseley's set T417 53897 - 59335 - 59603 - 51877 at Longbridge on 10/Mar/1990 heading for Lichfield City (formed 116DMS, 116TC, 127TSL, 115DMBS), about to be passed in the opposite direction by an HST. Robert Chilton.

Date: 30th June 1990

Set number: T417

DMU set T417 (53897, 59335, 59603 and 51892) arriving at Birmingham New Street station on 30 June 1990. Keith Miller.

Date: 26th March 1993

Set number: T324

First generation DMUs were far from from common on the Birmingham to Derby line by 1993 so it was a surprise when T324 formed of 53055 (class 116) + 59603 (class 115) + 53101 (class 116) appeared at Lea Marston working a Nottingham service, if the headcode panel is to be believed, on 26 March. I can only assume that it was a replacement for an unavailable sprinter and was definitely not an ECS train as there were many passengers visible on board. Peter Tandy.

Date: 7th April 1993

Set number: T324

T324 M53055 + M59603 + M53101 on the approaches of New Street 7-4-93. Kevin Dowd.

Date: 9th September 1993

Set number: T424

T424 (53055 + 59603) with 118s 51314 + 51329 at Longbridge on an ECS to form the 16:54 to Lichfield City, 9/9/93. Gazza Prescott.

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