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Vehicle 52094

Class 123

BR Diagram 566

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: Albion 230hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30703
Diagram: 566

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 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
19/08/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Modifications

14/11/73 - Dual AWS fitted
Jun-75 - WR AWS removed

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52094 59826 59831 52104 As delivered to CDF - June 1963
52094 59821 52098 Noted 03/07/66 - at Salisbury
52094 59821 52098 Noted 4th August 1966 - Noted on 2T43 at Cardiff/Newport.
514 52094 59824 52102 Noted circa Jan-70 - Reading set
52094 59824 52102 Noted 08/04/70 - at Royal Oak1
RDG514 52094 59824 52102 Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70
52092 59824 52094 Noted 19/11/70 - at Paddington2
52094 59824 52102 Noted 11/02/71 - at Royal Oak1
L714 52094 59824 52102 Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak1
C714 52094 59824 52102 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
C714 52094 59824 52102 Noted 26/09/76 - on 2V67 1345 Crewe-Cardiff with C600
C714 52094 59824 52102 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
C714 52094 59824 52102 Noted 09/04/1978 - Swindon Works3
52094 51977 59820 51954 Noted 10/11/19794
52094 51977 59766 51952 Noted 03/1980 - at Hull Paragon 3
52093 59770 59819 52094 Noted 19/07/19804
52094 59823 59769 52099 Noted 27/10/19804
52094 59822 59769 52099 Noted 01/11/19804
52094 59825 59235 52096 Noted 18/04/1981 - Seen at Selby4
52094 59827 59818 52102 Noted circa 19834
51957 59773 59827 52094 Noted circa 03/19834
52094 59769 59821 52099 Noted circa 10/19834
51961 59823 59235 52094 Noted 16/11/1983 - at Sheffield4
52102 59819 59767 52094 Noted circa 01/19844
51957 59235 59821 52094 Noted 03/01/1984 - at Manchester Picc4
51964 59768 59827 52094 Noted 24/04/19844

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Martin Lumley
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Inside a Class 123 DMU

14th June 1965

An official image from the Swindon Works Accident series, negative 5AB/104. It shows the damage inside the van area of Inter-City DMBS W52094 on 14/6/65. The wooden door leads into the cab. British Railways.

Class 123 DMU at Swindon Works

14th June 1965

An official image from the Swindon Works Accident series, negative 5AB/105. Inter-City DMBS W52094 on 14/6/65. British Railways.

Class 123 DMU at Southampton

12th March 1967

W52094 at the end of a six-car Swindon Inter-City DMU formation seen in Southampton station on 12 March 1967. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 123 DMU at Manchester Piccadilly

18th March 1979

Set number: 714

Having arrived in platform 1 at Manchester Piccadilly with a service from Sheffield, former Western Region Class 123 Driving Car E52094 (Complete with its oil tail lamp) was bringing up the rear of a hybrid three-car set on March 18th 1979. At the opposite end was a Class 124 Trans-Pennine car. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 123 DMU at Doncaster

October 1981

Set number: 714

A Class 123/4 hybrid DMU seen at Doncaster in October 1981. DMBSL E52094 is closest. George Woods.

Class 123 DMU at Sheffield

Unknown date

Set number: 714

A Swindon DMU formation with Class 123 E52094 closest seen at Sheffield, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

Class 123 DMU at Hull Botanic Gardens depot

circa 1983

DMUs, including Class 123 E52094 and Class 101 E54389, on Hull Botanic Gardens depot, circa 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 10th August 1982

51967+59835+59238+52094 at Barnetby. Phil Bidwell.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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