Vehicle 59458 / 975993
Class 125
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Orange Star
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30463
Diagram: 597
Allocations
| 13/02/59 | New to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 5w/e 31/05/69 | Transferred to | 34G (Finsbury Park) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | FP | |
| 02/12/76 | Withdrawn from | FP (Finsbury Park) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
59458 - original number
975993 - from circa Nov-82 (departmental stock)
Department Use as RDB975993
Battery storage coach at RTC then fire tests coach From 12/82 to 1985.
Disposal
Scrapped by Bird Group, Long Marston
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50997 | 59458 | 51163 | As delivered to 30A - 13th February 1959 | ||||||
| 50988 | 59458 | 51154 | Noted 28/08/69 - at Stratford1 | ||||||
| 51168 | 59458 | 50990 | Noted 25/09/71 - in Kings Cross1 | ||||||
| 51156 | 59458 | 50998 | 59449 | 51169 | Noted 04/11/1972 - R.C.T.S. / Peterborough Railway Circle Nene Valley Special / Last Train to Oundle | ||||
| 51159 | 59458 | 50988 | Noted 10/08/1974 - at Kings Cross2 | ||||||
| 51160 | 59458 | 50989 | Noted 20/04/75 - on Stratford depot1 | ||||||
| 51156 | 59458 | 50995 | Noted 09/09/1975 - at Kings Cross2 | ||||||
| 51161 | 59458 | 50990 | Noted 09/04/77 - on March depot, withdrawn3 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
Images:
April 1985
RDB 975993 was formerly Class 125 TS 59458. Its departmental use was as a fire test coach, and is seen in Derby St Marys in April 1985. Ian Francis.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 22nd June 1978
A number of Class 125 DMU vehicles in March yard on 22 June 1978. These had been withdrawn from Finsbury Park (FP) depot a few months earlier, presumably following the electrification of the suburban lines out of Kings Cross, and the introduction of new Class 313 emus. The vehicles pictured were scrapped at Doncaster Works, Booths (Rotherham) or Birds (Long Marston). I think some of these vehicles were at March for a few years, as I saw a report that 5 of the driving trailers present (51001/51004/51006/51163/51169/51173) were in Doncaster Works awaiting scrapping in March 1981. A full list of the other stock present was: 50991/50994/50995/51155/51160 (all five seen or just seen in the image), 59449/59454/59457/59458/59459/59461/59463/59465/59467/59468. 59468 is nearest the camera in my photo. This had been new, from Derby Works in September 1959 and was withdrawn (from FP) in January 1977. 59468 was scrapped at Booths. Lewis Bevan.