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Vehicle 59263


Class 120

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Lot Number: 30336
Diagram: 561

Allocations

4w/e 22/02/58 New to 86C (Cardiff Canton)
Jan-61Depot code change88A
Sep-63Depot code change86A
w/e 28/06/69 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
May-73Depot code changeDY
Apr-79 Transferred to CH (Chester)
p/e 10/07/83 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
11/05/86 Withdrawn from NH (Newton Heath)

Notes

29th January 1958 - New at Swindon Carriage Works.

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50712 59263 50657 5865 Noted 18th June 1958
CDF506 50712 59263 50657 Listed at CDF - circa Sep-60
50709 59263 50652 Transfer to 16C - 2w/e 28/06/69
50718 59263 50663 Noted 12/08/70 - in Birmingham area1
50718 59263 50663 Noted 21/12/70 - at March2
50718 59263 50663 Noted 05/04/71 - at Peterborough2
50718 59263 50663 Noted 22/05/71 - at Derby2
50696 59263 50678 Noted 01/03/72 - in Birmingham New Street2
50696 59263 50685 Noted 09/08/1972 - at Birmingham New Street3
50696 59263 50685 Noted 11/05/73 - at Crewe2
50696 59263 50685 Noted 30/07/73 - on 1035 Lincoln St Marks-Crewe
50696 59263 50685 Noted 17/08/1973 - at Leicester on 20:35 to Birmingham New Street with 50697 50290 and 506893
50696 59263 50685 Noted 25/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street4
EP593 50718 59263 50684 Noted 02/08/1975 - at Birmingham New Street 3
50697 59263 50655 Noted 12/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50697 59263 50655 Transfer to CH - April 79
50697 59263 50655 Noted 28/08/1979 - at Dovey Junction on service to Aberystwyth3
50697 59263 50655 Noted 25/10/1980 - At Shrewsbury Station5
50655 59263 50697 Noted circa 08/19826
50697 59263 50655 Noted circa 01/19836
53697 59263 53655 Noted circa 04/19836
53697 59263 53655 Noted 19/05/85
53697 59263 53655 Listed at NH - circa Jan-86

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Jeremy Goodyear
5: Shayne Lewis
6: Eddie Knorn

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 2nd November 1969

A Swindon Cross-Country DMU formed of W50652 + W59263 + W50709 (transferred from Cardiff to Derby in June) arrive into Hinckley working wrong line on 2 November 1969. Phillip Malin.

DMU

Date: 19th May 1985

53697 + 59263 + 53655 + 51586 + 59532 + 51577 at Blackpool North with the 11:20 to Manchester on 19/5/85. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: 9th November 1985

With three different types of first generation dmu's in view, a Newton Heath allocated Swindon Cross-Country class 120 dmu set comprising of cars M53696 + M59263 + M53655, waits to leave Manchester Victoria's platform 14 with a Blackpool North service, 9th November 1985. This view has totally changed beyond recognition, all the platforms are now straight with a 21,000 seat arena built on top of them. Andrew J Crowther.