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Vehicle 59272


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 22/03/58 New to 86C (Cardiff Canton)
Jan-61Depot code change88A
by Jun-62 Transferred to 84E (Tyseley)
30/07/62 Transferred to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
Sep-63Depot code change86A
4w/e 31/05/69 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
May-73Depot code changeDY
03/03/85 Withdrawn from DY (Derby Etches Park)

Notes

29th January 1958 - New at Swindon Carriage Works.

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50684 59272 50736 Noted 24/10/70 - at Sheffield Midland1
50684 59272 50736 Noted 30/10/70 - at Derby1
50736 59272 50684 Noted 02/01/71
50731 59272 50657 Noted 17/06/72 - at Thetford2
50709 59272 50657 Noted 24/06/72 - at Thetford2
50709 59272 50657 Noted 17/09/72 - at Stoke-on-Trent1
50709 59272 50650 Noted 14/01/73 - at Derby1
50717 59272 50650 Noted 18/08/1973 - at Peterborough with 17:45 to Birmingham New Street with 50741, 59256 and 506543
50734 59272 50684 Noted 28/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street4
50734 59272 50684 Noted 31/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street4
50709 59272 50676 Noted 06/07/1975 - at Derby3
50709 59272 50676 Noted 13/07/75 - on the RCTS East Angian Rambler railtour with 50717/59255/50655
50741 59272 50687 Noted 24/09/77 - at Nottingham2
EP512 50707 59272 50684 Listed at DY - circa Jun-82
EP512 50707 59272 50684 Noted 03/07/82 - at Norwich2
EP512 50707 59272 50684 Noted circa 09/19825
EP512 53707 59272 53684 Noted circa 06/19835
EP512 53707 59272 53684 Noted 30/08/1983 - EP512+TS401 worked tour of West Midlands, organiser unknown (www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/830830_1.htm)

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 2nd September 1982

Set number: EP512

Swindon Cross-Country set EP512, formed M50684 + M59272 + M50707 with a Birmingham New Street -Peterborough service at Melton Mowbray on September 2, 1982. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 2nd September 1982

Set number: EP512

Swindon Cross-Country set EP512, formed M50707 + M59272 + M50684 with a Birmingham New Street -Peterborough service at Melton Mowbray on September 2, 1982. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 30th August 1983

Set number: TS401

The BR organised 'West Midlands Roundabout' tour on 30 August 1983 at Stratford-upon-Avon. The Six Bells Junction website lists the vehicles as 53325 + 59528 + 53306 and 53684 + 59272 + 53707. Walter Burt.