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Vehicle 59828 / 975327


Class 123

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30707
Diagram: 569

Allocations

May-63 New to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
Sep-63Depot code change86A
Apr-68 Transferred to 81D (Reading)
3w/e 02/05/70 Stored 81A (Old Oak Common)
08/08/70 Withdrawn from 81A (Old Oak Common)
May-73Depot code changeOC
Jun-74 To departmental stock OC (Old Oak Common) - as breakdown train mess vehicle
by 01/01/85 Transferred to WR - no longer allocated to a depot, RCE staff and dorm coach for rail grinder DX79105
circa late 1986 Withdrawn from WR

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

59828 - original number
975327 - from circa 1974 (departmental stock)

Department Use as ADB / DB975327

Staff & dormitory coach first for OC breakdown train (ADB prefix), then for rail profiler DX79105 (DB prefix) From 1974 to 1987.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52091 59823 59828 52101 As delivered to CDF - May 1963
52093 59828 59818 52098 Noted 03/08/67 - at Southampton Central1
975327 Noted 20/07/75 - on Old Oak Common depot2

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown

Images:

Class 123 DMU at Old Oak Common

30th April 1977

Ex-Class 123 59828, now 975327 seen at Old Oak Common on 30/4/77. Tony Willmore.

Class 123 DMU at Worcester Shrub Hill

October 1984

Hiding amongst the wagons at Worcester Shrub Hill is 975327, a former Class 123 buffet car. Paul James.