Vehicle 52096
Class 123
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30704
Diagram: 574
Allocations
| Feb-63 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
| Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| May 1973 | Depot code change | RG | |
| 28/02/76 | Transferred to | CF (Cardiff Canton) | |
| w/e 18/12/76 | Stored | CF (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 09/04/78 | Stored U. | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| w/e 03/12/78 | Reinstated | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 27/05/84 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Modifications
Jul-70 - Dual AWS fitted
Jul-75 - WR AWS removed
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 52086 | 59818 | 59235 | 52096 | As delivered to CDF - February 1963 | |||||
| 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Noted 25/08/69 - at Paddington1 | ||||||
| RDG515 | 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70 | |||||
| 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Noted 12/04/71 - with 52101-59818-59236-52086 / 52088-59819-52099 on 1Z35 09:05 Paddington - Plymouth footex (Fulham v Plymouth) and return departure at 18:15. | ||||||
| 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Noted 28/08/73 - in Paddington with 52087/59826/59235/521031 | ||||||
| 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Noted 29/10/1973 - at Reading2 | ||||||
| L715 | 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Noted 8th June 1974 - Noted on 1Z15 08:35 Paddington - Exeter with L709 W52104+59827+52089 L712 W52092+59820+59238+52097. | |||||
| L715 | 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak3 | |||||
| 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Noted 06/06/1975 - 1821 special from Paddington to Henley for Regatta. Part of 7 car set 52096-59822-52095 / 52097-59820-59238-52092 | ||||||
| C715 | 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Listed at CF - 01/05/1976 | |||||
| C715 | 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Noted 15/09/76 - on 2V67 1000 Crewe-Cardiff | |||||
| C715 | 52095 | 59822 | 52096 | Listed at CF - 31st December 1977 | |||||
| 52096 | 59820 | 51970 | 52090 | Noted 06/04/19804 | |||||
| 52096 | 59820 | 51970 | 52090 | Noted 08/04/19804 | |||||
| 52096 | 59820 | 51970 | 52090 | Noted 09/04/19804 | |||||
| 52090 | 59820 | 52096 | Noted 11/04/19804 | ||||||
| 52090 | 59826 | 51984 | 52096 | Noted 27/10/19804 | |||||
| 52094 | 59825 | 59235 | 52096 | Noted 18/04/1981 - Seen at Selby4 | |||||
| 52090 | 59819 | 59838 | 52096 | Noted 27/08/82 | |||||
| 52088 | 59773 | 59826 | 52096 | Noted circa 10/19824 | |||||
| 52096 | 59767 | 59818 | 52095 | Noted circa 03/19834 | |||||
| 52096 | 59834 | 59827 | 51967 | Noted circa 01/19844 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
Images:
circa 1970
Set number: 515
Swindon Inter-City set 515 (presumably 52096 closest) alongside a Hymek at Oxford, circa late 1960s / early 1970s. Location unknown. Graham Clark.
Unknown date
Set number: L715
Two three-car Swindon Class 123 Inter-City DMU sets heading westbound away from Hayes and Harlington. On the rear is L715, presumably with 52096 closest. Date is unknown, but circa early to mid-1970s before the sets moved to Cardiff in March 1976. Stuart Mackay Collection.
5th June 1979
Class 123 E52096 at Sheffield on 5 June 1979. Brian Daniels.
8th June 1979
E52096 is the closest vehicle on this Swindon-built formation at Huddersfield on June 8th, 1979. Malcolm Clements.
8th June 1979
A Class 123 set heads out of Huddersfield with 52096 on the rear on 8/6/79. Class 104 E50553 sits in the platform. Malcolm Clements.
4th July 1979
A Swindon set in Huddersfield station on July 4, 1979. E52096 is closest. Malcolm Clements.
23rd February 1980
Passing right in front of people's houses, E52096 arrives at a very dull Hull on 23rd February 1980. The semi-derelict housing along Selby Street does nothing to lift the feeling of gloom. The footbridge from which this photograph was taken is still there, but all the houses have long been demolished. Syd Young.
29th November 1980
A Class 123 DMSKL on a Sheffield - Manchester service at Ardwick on 29 November 1980. It seems to be E52096. Taken by Barrie Watkins. Stuart Mackay Collection.
19th April 1984
An EMU and DMU line-up at Manchester Piccadilly on 19 April 1984. Right to left are Class 123 E52096 (with E59824 + E59773 + E52089), Class 104 M53450 (with M59187 + M53491), the single-engined Class 104 M78601 (with M78851) and a Class 506 EMU. Keith Long.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 27th August 1982
E52090 + E59819 + E59838 + E52096 at Morecambe Promenade after an arrival from Leeds on 27 August 1982. Robert Frise.