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Vehicle 59494


Class 117

Builder: Pressed Steel
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30547
Diagram: 601

Allocations

Apr-60 New to 81C (Southall)
Jul-66 Transferred to 81D (Reading)
Jun-71 Transferred to 82A (Bristol Bath Road)
06/05/73Depot code changeBR
28/02/76 Transferred to RG (Reading)
18/09/92 Transferred to OO (Old Oak Common) NWRX
01/07/93 Transferred to HQ (Headquarters) NWRX
06/07/93 Withdrawn from HQ (Headquarters) NWRX

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 30/12/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Preserved - more details.

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51342 59494 51384 As delivered to Southall - April 1960
SHL304 51342 59494 51384 Listed at Southall - circa Oct-60
405 51342 59494 51384 Listed at Reading - Apr-68 - was R337, gangwayed set
51342 59494 51384 Noted 25/08/69 - at Paddington1
51342 59494 51384 Transfer to 82A - Jun-71
51342 59494 51384 Noted 21/08/1971 - at Newport2
51342 59494 51384 Noted 20/11/71 - in Bristol Temple Meads1
51342 59494 51384 Noted 03/03/73 - at Weymouth3
51342 59494 51384 Noted 30/06/1973 - at Newport2
51342 59494 51384 Noted 02/07/1973 - at Swindon2
51342 59494 51384 Noted 06/09/73 - at Gloucester Eastgate3
51342 59494 51384 Noted 29/08/1974 - at Cardiff2
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - 01/05/1976
L407 51342 59494 55031 Noted 05/1977 - Oxford Didcot Reading area4
L407 51342 59494 51384 Noted 14/05/1977 - Oxford Station4
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - 31st December 1977
L407 51342 59494 51384 Noted 14/01/1978 - At Oxford Station4
L407 51342 59494 51384 Noted 24/07/1978 - Reading Station4
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - 03/03/80
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - 15/12/1982
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - 01/01/85
L407 51342 59494 51384 Noted 20/04/1985 - Monmouthshire Railway Society The Maerdy Gras Railtour L407+L413+55021
L407 51342 59494 51384 Noted circa 02/19865
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at Reading - Summer 1986
L407 51342 59494 51384 Noted 21/06/19865
55021 59494 51384 Noted circa 09/19865
55021 59494 51384 Noted 13/09/1986 - at Reading6
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - Aug-87
L407 51342 59494 51384 Noted circa 04/19885
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - 15/05/89
L407 51342 59494 51384 Noted circa 01/19915
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - 21/01/91
51342 59494 51384 Noted 09/04/92 - on 11:05 Bedwyn - Reading7
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - 24/02/92 - NSE NWRX pool
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at RG - 12/08/92
L407 51342 59494 51384 Noted circa 10/19925
L407 51342 59494 51384 Listed at OO - November 1992 - Sector NWRX

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Robert Chilton
7: David Bellamy

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 23rd July 1976

Set number: L407

L407 (presumably 51342 + 59494 + 51384) and L404 at Ealing Broadway, 23 July 1976. Nigel Menzies.

DMU

Date: 5th March 1979

Set number: L407

Two Class 117 DMUs in Oxford station with a service for Paddington on 5 March 1979. Closest is set L407 - presumably 51384 + 59494 + 51342. Brian Daniels.

DMU

Date: 26th January 1980

Set number: L407

Class 117 set L407 (presumably 51342 + 59494 + 51384) arrives into Taplow station on January 26, 1980. Steve Davies Collection.

DMU

Date: June 1983

Set number: L407

W51342 at the head of L407, presumably with 59494 + 51384, at Southall in June 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 20th April 1985

Set number: L407

Taken eight months before the line closed forever in December 1985 this 7-car DMU formation made up of two class 117 sets L407 (51342 + 59494 + 51384) + L413 and class 121 set L121 (55021) are seen at the limit of BR working around the site of Blaengarw station which closed on 9/2/1953. The train was the Monmouthshire Railway Society 'Maerdy Gras' tour on April 20, 1985. The line continued a short distance beyond here to serve Garw colliery and the once famous Ocean colliery but tracks beyond here would be considered to be mineral railway so this train came to a stand at the first set of facing points before reversing. Adrian Nicholls.

DMU

Date: 10th July 1985

Set number: L407

Class 117 set L407 (presumably 51342 + 59494 + 51384) passes the loop at Malvern Wells with a Hereford bound service on 10th July 1985. Paul James.

DMU

Date: 25th August 1985

Set number: L407

Class 117 set no L407 (presumably 51342 + 59494 + 51384) is seen at Northolt Waste Transfer Terminal having arrived from Southall with the "Coupler" shuttle on 25 August 1985. Robert28194.

DMU

Date: 6th February 1988

Set number: L407

Class 117 Pressed Steel Co 3-car DMU set L407 (51384 + 59494 + 51342) Paddington, 6-2-88. On Tour With The Class 13 Army.

DMU

Date: circa March 1988

Set number: L407

Two Class 117 sets, the closest L407 is presumably formed 51342 + 59494 + 51384, approaches Southall circa March 1988. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 5th May 1988

Set number: L411

Class 117s at Maidenhead on 5 May 1988. On the left sits L411, presumably with 51346 + 59498 visible, while L407 (presumably 51342 + 59494 + 51384) arrives - many doors already open. Andrew Malloy.

DMU

Date: 23rd November 1988

Set number: L407

Class 117 DMU L407 (51342+59494+51384) heading away from Southall on 23-11-88. On Tour With The Class 13 Army.

DMU

Date: 1989

Set number: L407

Class 117 set L407 (presumably 51342 + 59494 + 51384) in 1989, possibly between Radley and Oxford, looking south from the footbridge near Kennington Road. Walter Burt.

DMU

Date: 20th March 1990

Set number: L407

L407 (51342 + 59494 + 51384) at Reading, 20/3/90. Sparegang.