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Vehicle 59826

Class 123

BR Diagram 567

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30705
Diagram: 567

Allocations

Jun-63 New to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
Sep-63Depot code change86A
Apr-68 Transferred to 81D (Reading)
May 1973Depot code changeRG
28/02/76 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
2w/e 01/01/77 Stored CF (Cardiff Canton)
09/04/78 Stored U. BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
w/e 15/10/78 Reinstated BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
01/04/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52094 59826 59831 52104 As delivered to CDF - June 1963
507 52087 59235 59826 52103 Noted circa Jan-70 - Reading set
52087 59826 59235 52103 Noted 28/08/73 - in Paddington with 52095/59822/520961
C707 52087 59826 52103 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
52087 59826 52103 Noted 04/09/76 - on Cardiff Canton depot2
C707 52087 59826 52103 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
52093 59826 52102 12th March 1979 - Unit collided with 2-car 108 at Sheffield station.
52104 59826 51969 51953 Noted 14/07/19793
52093 59826 51957 Noted 05/04/19803
52093 59826 51957 Noted 06/04/19803
52093 59826 51957 Noted 08/04/19803
52093 59826 51957 Noted 09/04/19803
51957 59826 52093 Noted 10/04/19803
52090 59826 51984 52096 Noted 27/10/19803
52102 59766 59826 52093 Noted circa 04/19823
52095 59826 59773 52105 Noted circa 10/19823
52088 59773 59826 51958 Noted circa 10/19823
52088 59773 59826 52096 Noted circa 10/19823
51961 59766 59826 52091 Noted circa 19833
52090 59826 59238 51956 Noted circa 02/19833
51961 59766 59826 52091 Noted circa 07/19833
52088 59766 59826 52099 Noted circa 09/19833

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 123 DMU at Manchester Piccadilly

25th February 1979

Swindon built Class 123 Inter City DMU TCL E59826 at Manchester Piccadilly on February 25 1979. Mark Leving.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: August 1982

Hybrid BR (Swindon) "Trans Pennine" Standard Mk.I Class "124" 4-car dmu formed of #52089 + E59826 + E59773 + E52103 departing Manchester (Piccadilly) on a service to Stalybridge - Huddersfield - Leeds (City), 08/82. Hugh Llewelyn.

DMU

Date: August 1982

Hybrid BR (Swindon) "Trans Pennine" Standard Mk.I Class "124" 4-car dmu which include former cars from BR (Swindon) Inter City Class 123 dmu's. The set is made of Nos. E52089 (IC 123/2), E59826 (IC 183), E59773 (TP 180), E52103 (IC 123/1) with plated-up headcodes and front gangway doors in BR Inter City Rail Blue & Grey livery and all yellow front ends departing Manchester (Piccadilly) on a service to Stalybridge - Huddersfield - Leeds (City), 08/82. Hugh Llewelyn.

DMU

Date: August 1982

Hybrid BR (Swindon) Trans Pennine Standard Mk.I Class 124 4-car dmu which include former cars from BR (Swindon) Inter City Class 123 dmu's. The set is made of E52089, E59826, E59773, E52103 with plated-up headcodes and front gangway doors in BR Inter City Rail Blue & Grey livery and all yellow front ends awaiting departure at Manchester (Piccadilly) on a service to Stalybridge - Huddersfield - Leeds (City), 08/82. Hugh Llewelyn.

DMU

Date: 19th August 1982

E52103, E59773, E59826 and E52089 are seen in the old Green Eyre platform at Lancaster Castle on the 19th August 1982. Robert Frise.

DMU

Date: 19th August 1982

E52089, E59826, E59773 and E52103 in the old Green Eyre platform at Lancaster Castle on the 19th August 1982. Robert Frise.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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