Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30707
Diagram: 569
May-63 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Canton) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
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08/08/70 | Withdrawn from | 81A (Old Oak Common) | |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-73 | Depot code change | OC | |
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circa late 1986 | Withdrawn from | WR |
59828 - original number
975327 - from circa 1974 (departmental stock)
Staff & dormitory coach first for OC breakdown train (ADB prefix), then for rail profiler DX79105 (DB prefix) From 1974 to 1987.
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
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
Ex-Class 123 59828, now 975327 seen at Old Oak Common on 30/4/77. Tony Willmore.
Hiding amongst the wagons at Worcester Shrub Hill is 975327, a former Class 123 buffet car. Paul James.