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Vehicle 59260


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 22/02/58 New to 86C (Cardiff Canton)
Jan-61Depot code change88A
Sep-63Depot code change86A
06/05/73Depot code changeCF
w/e 13/12/80 Transferred to DY (Derby Etches Park)
15/05/83 Withdrawn from DY (Derby Etches Park)

Notes

29th January 1958 - New at Swindon Carriage Works.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


CDF510 50699 59260 50662 Listed at CDF - circa Sep-60
CTN524 50699 59260 50662 Listed at 86A - May-70
CTN524 50699 59260 50662 Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71
50699 59260 50662 Noted 23/08/1971 - at Newport1
50699 59260 50662 Noted 26/08/1971 - at Newport1
524 50699 59260 50662 Noted 02/11/72
50699 59260 50662 Noted 05/07/1973 - at Bristol Temple Meads1
C507 50699 59260 50662 Noted 23/06/74 - on 2B46 15:30 Cardiff-Bristol TM
50699 59260 50662 Noted 25/08/1974 - at Carmarthen1
50699 59260 50662 Noted 28/08/1974 - at Swansea1
C524 50699 59260 50662 Noted 03/09/74 - at Swansea High Street2
C507 50699 59260 50662 Noted 09/09/74 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven with C508
C526 50699 59260 50682 Noted 18/09/74 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven with C503
C611 50699 59260 50662 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
50699 59260 50662 Noted 04/09/76 - at Cardiff3
C611 50699 59260 50662 Noted 07/10/77 - on 2C82 0912 Pembroke Dock-Swansea
C611 50699 59260 50662 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
C611 50699 59260 50662 Noted 05/06/78 - on 2C01 0549 Newport-Chepstow with C610
C611 50699 59260 50662 Noted 15/07/78 - on 2V93 1541 Shrewsbury-Swansea
C611 50699 59260 50662 Noted 27/08/1978 - West Wales Area4
C611 50699 59260 50662 Noted 21/11/78 - on 2C71 0525 Cambridge-Swansea
C611 50699 59260 50662 Listed at CF - 03/03/80
50699 59260 50658 Noted 10/05/82 - at Norwich2
EP507 50699 59260 50658 Listed at DY - circa Jun-82
BX488 53449 59260 53522 Noted 23/12/1983 - at Manchester Picc5

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

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 3rd May 1979

Set number: C611

Cardiff allocated Swindon Cross-Country set C611 (presumably 50699 + 59260 + 50662) at Milford Haven on 3 May 1979. We had taken this from Whitland. Alistair Ness.

DMU

Date: 5th May 1979

Set number: C611

In the early morning sunlight of 5th May 1979 class 120 set C611 (50662, 59260 & 50699) complete with Central Wales Line headlight at Carmarthen. Ian Buck.

DMU

Date: 1980

Set number: c611

50662,59260 & 50669 stand at Llandeilo on the Central Wales line. The train is working a Shrewsbury to Swansea Service Peter Shoesmith.