Builder: Pressed Steel
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30519
Diagram: 513
Jan-61 | New to | 81C (Southall) | |
Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
Apr-72 | Transferred to | 84A (Laira) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | LA | |
w/e 06/03/76 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) | |
4w/e 26/05/79 | Transferred to | RG (Reading) | |
Jun-87 | Transferred to | OO (Old Oak Common) | |
26/04/91 | Withdrawn from | OO (Old Oak Common) NXXZ |
56283 - original number
54283 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
p/e 31/03/73 - Dual AWS fitted
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
51309 | 59476 | 51324 | 56283 | Noted 25/08/69 - at Paddington1 | |||||
51363 | 59515 | 51405 | 56283 | Noted 25/10/1971 - at Paddington2 | |||||
P283 | 56283 | Noted 07/09/73 - on Laira depot3 | |||||||
56283 | Noted 02/09/74 - at Penzance, probably loose3 | ||||||||
P554 | 51575 | 51584 | 56283 | Noted 27/08/75 - at Plymouth, 56293 carrying P2833 | |||||
B283 | 56283 | Listed at BR - 01/05/1976 | |||||||
B283 | 56283 | Noted 07/09/76 - on Bristol Philips March depot, loose vehicle3 | |||||||
B283 | 56283 | Listed at BR - 31st December 1977 | |||||||
L283 | 56283 | Listed at RG - 03/03/80 | |||||||
55029 | 56283 | Noted 29/05/80 - at Oxford, 56283 carrying set number L283 | |||||||
L283 | 56283 | Listed at RG - 15/12/1982 | |||||||
L283 | 54283 | Listed at RG - 01/01/85 | |||||||
L122 | 55022 | 54283 | Noted 01/06/1985 - on Reading Depot open day shuttle from station (54283 carrying set L283) | ||||||
L283 | 54283 | Listed at Reading - Summer 1986 | |||||||
55023 | 54283 | Noted circa 06/19864 | |||||||
55027 | 54283 | Noted 13/09/19864 | |||||||
55028 | 54283 | Noted 25/02/1987 - at Old Oak Common5 | |||||||
53437 | 54283 | Noted 27/06/1987 - at Gospel Oak5 | |||||||
L283 | 54283 | Listed at OO - Aug-87 | |||||||
L283 | 54283 | Listed at OO - 15/05/89 | |||||||
51363 | 54283 | Noted circa 07/19904 | |||||||
L283 | 54283 | Listed at OO - 21/01/91 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton
Only two Class 121s received the white / blue stripe livery: W55034 and W56283. Here they both are (DTS closest) at Swindon after release from the works in late May 1979. Stuart Mackay Collection.
W56283 + W55029 at Oxford on 29 May 1980. Brian Daniels.
Arriving at Paddington on 15th August 1980 is driving trailer 56283 with a bubble and suburban set. Ian Buck.
A Class 121 DTS (54283) and DMBS enters West Drayton station, date unknown. Glyn Weigh.
W56283 - one of the Class 121 unpowered trailer cars that were used with the Bubble Cars to provide extra capacity - seen at the back of Southall shed, circa 1983. Chris McKee.
A pair of Class 121 vehicles - W56283 closest - at Oxford with a Didcot service on 5 March 1983. Brian Daniels.
W54283 at Paddington in January 1988. Malcolm Clements.
Class 121 coaches Nos. 54283 and 55024 stand at Slough working the Windsor & Eton shuttle on 26 March 1988. Brian Creasey.
Class 121 DTS 54283 working with a Class 101 DMBS at Clapham Junction sometime in 1989. Image taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.
55993 sits in the company of 59437 (left) and 56283 (right) at Stratford on the 21st February 1980. Ed Kibey.
Pressed Steel 2-car dmu set made up of Class 121 railcar No.L122 (W55022) and Class 149 Driving Trailer (designed to work with Class 121 & 122 railcars) No.L232 (W54283) in Rail Blue & Grey with all-yellow front ends departing Paddington on a service to Henley, coupled to a Pressed Steel Class 117 3-car dmu (cab just visible), 08/84. Hugh Llewelyn.