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Vehicle 59827


Class 123

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

Jun-63 New to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
Sep-63Depot code change86A
Apr-68 Transferred to 81D (Reading)
May 1973Depot code changeRG
28/02/76 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
w/e 18/12/76 Stored CF (Cardiff Canton)
09/04/78 Stored U. BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
w/e 08/10/78 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20/05/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)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:


52095 59827 59832 52105 As delivered to CDF - June 1963
RDG509 52089 59827 52104 Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70
509 52089 59827 52104 Noted 25/10/1971 - at Paddington1
52089 59827 52104 Noted 29/10/1973 - at Reading1
L709 52104 59827 52089 Noted 8th June 1974 - Noted on 1Z15 08:35 Paddington - Exeter with L715 W52095+59822+52096 and L712 W52092+59820+59238+52097.
52087 59827 52104 Noted 03/06/1975 - at Birmingham New Street on 19:55 to Reading?2
L709 52089 59827 52104 Noted 08/1975 - at Solihull on a weekday between 11th and 15th August 19752
52089 59827 52104 Noted 25/04/76 - at Crewe3
C709 52089 59827 52104 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
52089 59827 52104 Noted 04/09/76 - at Cardiff3
C709 52089 59827 52104 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
710 52090 59827 52100 Noted 03/02/79
52090 59827 52100 Noted 03/02/1979 - Noted on a Hull service at Sheffield
52090 59827 52100 Noted 03/02/1979 - Noted on a Hull service at Sheffield
52104 59827 51978 52100 Noted 10/11/19794
52103 59833 59827 51957 Noted circa 04/19824
51954 59768 59827 52091 Noted circa 09/19824
52094 59827 59818 52102 Noted circa 19834
52098 59827 59770 52095 Noted circa 02/19834
51957 59773 59827 52094 Noted circa 03/19834
51954 59841 59827 52104 Noted circa 09/19834
52096 59834 59827 51967 Noted circa 01/19844
51961 59834 59827 52097 Noted 03/01/1984 - at Manchester Picc4
51964 59768 59827 52094 Noted 24/04/19844

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 22nd December 1979

Set number: 710

on December 22, 1979 E52100 + E59827 + E51974 + E51952 are seen at Mexborough with the 12:35 Doncaster - Manchester Piccadilly. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 18th April 1981

A mixed rake of Swindon-built Class 123 and 124 vehicles at Grimsby Town on April 18 1981, visible being 51954, 59827 and 59833. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 29th October 1983

A Swindon-built DMU formation departs from Sheffield with a Manchester - Cleethorpes service on 29 October 1983. The formation is 52102 + 59827 + 59772 + 52091, three being Class 123 vehicles and the fourth a Class 124 Trans-Pennine. Stuart Mackay Collection.