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Vehicle 59236

Class 123

BR Diagram 568

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30706
Diagram: 568

Allocations

Feb-63 New to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
Sep-63Depot code change86A
Feb-68 Transferred to 81D (Reading)
May 1973Depot code changeRG
28/02/76 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
26/06/77 Stored U. LN (Lincoln)
3w/e 01/07/78 Reinstated BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
20/05/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52087 59819 59236 52097 As delivered to CDF - February 1963
52086 59236 59818 52101 Noted 08/04/70 - at Royal Oak1
RDG506 52086 59236 59818 52101 Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70
52086 59818 59236 52101 Noted 11/08/70 - at Royal Oak1
52086 59818 59236 52101 Noted 11/02/71 - at Royal Oak1
52086 59236 52101 Noted 12/04/71 - with 52088-59819-52099 / 52095-59822-52096 on 1Z35 09:05 Paddington - Plymouth footex (Fulham v Plymouth) and return departure at 18:15.
506 52086 59818 59236 52101 Noted 26/10/1971 - at Paddington2
52086 59236 59818 52101 Noted 29/10/1973 - at Reading2
L706 52086 59818 59236 52101 Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak1
51960 59236 51980 52099 Noted 09/06/19793
51955 59236 51978 51960 Noted 30/08/1979 - at Manchester Piccadilly4
52092 51978 59236 51955 Noted 27/10/19803
51957 51973 59236 51966 Noted 05/05/1981 - at Hull4
51967 59236 59823 52087 Noted circa 09/19823
51956 59838 59236 51952 Noted circa 10/19823
52099 59840 59236 51965 Noted circa 02/19833
51954 59238 59236 52092 Noted 16/11/1983 - at Sheffield3
51952 59772 59236 52095 Noted 08/05/19843

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Peter Wallwork

Images:

Inside a Class 123 DMU

16th February 1963

An official image (Swindon Works negative 5CR/258) showing one of the second class saloons in TSL W59236. British Railways.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: November 1965

BR (Swindon) Inter-City (later Class 123) Standard Mk.I 4-car dmu Nos. W52088 (123/2), W59818 (183), W59236 (182) and W52097 (123/1) in BR lined green livery with yellow gangway panel at Dare Jct, Newport on a Portsmouth - Cardiff (General) service, 11/65. Hugh Llewelyn.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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