Vehicle 59827
Class 123
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-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
| Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
| 28/02/76 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) | |
| w/e 18/12/76 | Stored | CF (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 09/04/78 | Stored U. | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| w/e 08/10/78 | Reinstated | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 20/05/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 52095 | 59827 | 59832 | 52105 | As delivered to CDF - June 1963 | |||||
| RDG509 | 52089 | 59827 | 52104 | Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70 | |||||
| 509 | 52089 | 59827 | 52104 | Noted 25/10/1971 - at Paddington1 | |||||
| 52089 | 59827 | 52104 | Noted 29/10/1973 - at Reading1 | ||||||
| L709 | 52104 | 59827 | 52089 | Noted 8th June 1974 - Noted on 1Z15 08:35 Paddington - Exeter with L715 W52095+59822+52096 and L712 W52092+59820+59238+52097. | |||||
| 52087 | 59827 | 52104 | Noted 03/06/1975 - at Birmingham New Street on 19:55 to Reading?2 | ||||||
| L709 | 52089 | 59827 | 52104 | Noted 08/1975 - at Solihull on a weekday between 11th and 15th August 19752 | |||||
| 52089 | 59827 | 52104 | Noted 25/04/76 - at Crewe3 | ||||||
| C709 | 52089 | 59827 | 52104 | Listed at CF - 01/05/1976 | |||||
| 52089 | 59827 | 52104 | Noted 04/09/76 - at Cardiff3 | ||||||
| C709 | 52089 | 59827 | 52104 | Listed at CF - 31st December 1977 | |||||
| 710 | 52090 | 59827 | 52100 | Noted 03/02/79 | |||||
| 52090 | 59827 | 52100 | Noted 03/02/1979 - Noted on a Hull service at Sheffield | ||||||
| 52090 | 59827 | 52100 | Noted 03/02/1979 - Noted on a Hull service at Sheffield | ||||||
| 52104 | 59827 | 51978 | 52100 | Noted 10/11/19794 | |||||
| 52103 | 59833 | 59827 | 51957 | Noted circa 04/19824 | |||||
| 51954 | 59768 | 59827 | 52091 | Noted circa 09/19824 | |||||
| 52094 | 59827 | 59818 | 52102 | Noted circa 19834 | |||||
| 52098 | 59827 | 59770 | 52095 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||
| 51957 | 59773 | 59827 | 52094 | Noted circa 03/19834 | |||||
| 51954 | 59841 | 59827 | 52104 | Noted circa 09/19834 | |||||
| 52096 | 59834 | 59827 | 51967 | Noted circa 01/19844 | |||||
| 51961 | 59834 | 59827 | 52097 | Noted 03/01/1984 - at Manchester Picc4 | |||||
| 51964 | 59768 | 59827 | 52094 | Noted 24/04/19844 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Eddie Knorn
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 22nd December 1979
Set number: 710
on December 22, 1979 E52100 + E59827 + E51974 + E51952 are seen at Mexborough with the 12:35 Doncaster - Manchester Piccadilly. John Carter.
Date: 18th April 1981
A mixed rake of Swindon-built Class 123 and 124 vehicles at Grimsby Town on April 18 1981, visible being 51954, 59827 and 59833. John Carter.
Date: 29th October 1983
A Swindon-built DMU formation departs from Sheffield with a Manchester - Cleethorpes service on 29 October 1983. The formation is 52102 + 59827 + 59772 + 52091, three being Class 123 vehicles and the fourth a Class 124 Trans-Pennine. Stuart Mackay Collection.