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