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Vehicle 59818

Class 123

BR Diagram 567

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30705
Diagram: 567

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)
2w/e 09/07/77 Stored CF (Cardiff Canton)
09/04/78 Transferred to 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20/05/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)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:


52086 59818 59235 52096 As delivered to CDF - February 1963
52093 59828 59818 52098 Noted 03/08/67 - at Southampton Central1
52069 59818 52079 Noted 20/07/68 - in Manchester Victoria1
52086 59236 59818 52101 Noted 08/04/70 - at Royal Oak2
RDG506 52086 59236 59818 52101 Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70
52086 59818 59236 52101 Noted 11/08/70 - at Royal Oak2
52086 59818 59236 52101 Noted 11/02/71 - at Royal Oak2
506 52086 59818 59236 52101 Noted 26/10/1971 - at Paddington3
52086 59236 59818 52101 Noted 29/10/1973 - at Reading3
L706 52086 59818 59236 52101 Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak2
C706 52086 59818 52101 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
C706 52086 59818 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
51951 51975 59818 52102 Noted 27/10/19804
51951 51975 59818 52102 Noted 02/01/19814
51962 59822 59818 52088 Noted 26/06/1982 - Worked 17.12 Leeds to Morecambe service4
52094 59827 59818 52102 Noted circa 19834
52096 59767 59818 52095 Noted circa 03/19834
51961 59818 59770 52089 Noted circa 09/19834

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

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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.

DMU

Date: 16th June 1983

Swindon vehicles E51965, E59766, E59818, E52093 at Doncaster on 16-06-83. Vincent Haworth.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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