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Set 503


These formations have been noted:

51579 51588 Noted 03/10/69
50707 59268 50653 Noted 02/11/72
50707 59268 50653 Noted 06/09/73 - on Cardiff Canton depot1
Disbanded w/e 07/02/88 - 59565 removed, set became 403
51813 59562 51830 Formation change - NL - 2w/e 13/03/88 - 59562 replaced 59565
Disbanded circa May-88 - TS to spare and renumbered 403
51813 59249 52077 Formed at NL p/e 17/06/88
51813 59249 Listed at NL - Feb-89

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown

Class 119 DMU at Dudley

2nd May 1964

A Gloucester-built Cross-Country DMU is seen at Dudley on 2 May 1964. Closest is M51057 displaying Tyseley set number 503 in the left cab window. Michael Mensing.

Class 119 DMU at Knowle / Lapworth

summer 1964

Tyseley cross-country set 503 seen in the summer of 1964 in the Knowle / Lapworth area, headed by M51057. Michael Mensing.

Class 120 DMU at Oxford

September 1968

Two car Swindon Cross-Country set 503 (presumably 51588 + 51579) at Oxford in September 1968. The pair were spent just over a year allocated to Reading beginning April 1968. Steve Davies Collection.

Class 120 DMU at Chepstow

19th March 1972

A Swindon Cross-Country DMU in Chepstow station on the 19th of March 1972. Carrying set number 503, the vehicles are presumably 50653 + 59268 + 50707. The KDH Archive.


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