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Vehicle 56291


Class 122

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30420
Diagram: 538

Allocations

3w/e 05/07/58 New to 81C (Southall)
by Jun-61 Transferred to 84E (Tyseley)
01/01/63Boundary change84Etransferred from WR to LMR stock
Sep-63Depot code change2A
4w/e 30/06/68 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
Oct-68 Transferred to 60A (Inverness)
Jan-69 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
Mar-72 Transferred to 65A (Eastfield)
May-73Depot code changeED
4w/e 02/07/77 Stored
11/08/77 Withdrawn

Notes

14/09/78 - A Glasgow Works visit found 56291, 56297 and 56299, all withdrawn, distributed around the yard. Also 50745, W in 1976, 51447, W in 9/77, and 51803, which was recorded as being a “wreck”, and stored 51784.

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


55002 56291 Noted 27/05/70 - at Glasgow Central1
55002 56291 Noted 15/08/70 - on Hamilton depot1
02 55002 56291 Listed at 66C - 1972
55002 56291 51536 Noted 05/08/19742
55007 56291 Noted 05/09/76 - at Stirling3
50254 56291 51532 Noted 30/03/1977 - 08:45 Springburn to Cumbernauld service2

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown

Images:

Class 122 DMU at Motherwell

circa 1968

GRC&W DTC 56291 arrives into Motherwell station - no date, but the M predix should date it to soon after transfer from Tyseley to Hamilton in June 1968. Also in the formation is a GRC&W bubble, a three-car Derby Heavyweight (later Class 107) and possibly at least one more vehicle. Graham Clark.

Class 122 DMU at Rutherglen

circa 1968

GRC&W DTC M56291 and three GRC&W bubble cars at Rutherglen. Date unknown, but probably circa late 1968 after the DTC had been transferred from Tyseley to Hamilton. Graham Clark.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 2nd February 1976

A hybrid Class 101 set at Springburn on February 2nd 1976. It has a Class 122 DTS for a centre car, Eastfield had three at the time - 56291, 56297 and 56299. Arnie Furniss.

DMU

Date: unknown

A withdrawn Class 122 DTS (either SC56291 or SC56297) awaiting disposal at Glasgow Works. To the right is Sc79479. Malcolm Clements.

DMU

Date: unknown

SC79479 is one of several 79xxx Swindon Inter-City vehicles built for the Edinburgh - Glasgow services that were transferred to work with the later Ayrshire 5xxxx sets. It is seen here in Glasgow Works. To the left is Class 122 DTS (either SC56291 or SC56297), to the right a Mk1. Undated. Malcolm Clements.

DMU

Date: January 1982

Many DMUs sat around at Millerhill awaiting journeys south for scrapping. SC56299 plus another (56291 or 56297) and a Mk.1 sleeping car sit in the slush of a winter's day in January 1982. Alistair Ness.