Vehicle 59775
Class 124
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30606
Diagram: 562
Allocations
| 09/08/60 | New to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 25/03/67 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
| 26/10/75 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Notes
18/01/76 - 59775/6/7/8/9 and 79111 noted at Botanic Gardens depot, withdrawn, awaiting removal for scrap. All noted there again on 21/2/76.
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51953 | 51972 | 59766 | 59775 | 51973 | 51954 | As delivered to 55H - 9th August 1960 | |||
| 51961 | 51968 | 51971 | 59766 | 59775 | 59768 | 51980 | 51967 | Noted 30/08/1964 - enhanced formation for a BR / RERPS Cumbrian Scenic tour | |
| 51956 | 51972 | 59767 | 59775 | 51960 | Noted 30/07/73 - on 1610 Liverpool-Hull | ||||
| 51961 | 51981 | 59773 | 59775 | 51980 | 51963 | Noted 29/08/74 - on Hull Botanic Gardens depot1 | |||
| 51952 | 51983 | 59770 | 59775 | 51984 | 51960 | Noted 10/09/75 - at Brough2 | |||
| 51951 | 51984 | 59775 | 59770 | 51972 | 51956 | Noted 15/09/75 - at Brough2 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 6th May 1976
Class 124 Trans-Pennine buffet car E59779 (and E59775) on Hull Botanic Gardens depot, 6 May 1976. It had been withdrawn the previous October but would not be scrapped for another five years. Brian Daniels.