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Vehicle 59269

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 22/03/58	New to	84E (Tyseley)
01/01/63	Boundary change	84E	transferred from WR to LMR stock
Sep-63	Depot code change	2A
Dec-63	Transferred to	82B (Bristol Marsh Junction)
Dec-63	Transferred to	84A (Laira)
Nov-66	Transferred to	82A (Bristol Bath Road)
31/01/71	Transferred to	86A (Cardiff Canton)
06/05/73	Depot code change	CF
w/e 06/12/80	Transferred to	CH (Chester)
12/06/83	Withdrawn from	CH (Chester)

Notes

29th January 1958 - New at Swindon Carriage Works.

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50710	59269	50661	Noted 01/04/69 - in Birmingham New Street¹
	50710	59269	50661	Noted 05/11/70 - at Birmingham New Street¹
	50710	59269	50661	Transfer to 86A - 2w/e 09/01/71
CTN507	50710	59269	50661	Listed at Canton - circa Feb-71
C507	50710	59269	50661	Noted 31/10/72
507	50710	59269	50661	Noted 06/09/73 - in Gloucester Eastgate²
507	50710	59269	50661	Noted 06/09/73 - at Severn Tunnel Junction²
C506	50710	59269	50661	Noted 17/09/74 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven with B560
C506	50710	59269	50661	Noted 23/12/74 - on 2C46 1600 Weymouth-Cardiff with B468 + C556
C506	50710	59269	50661	Noted 31/01/75 - on 2B46 1620 Cardiff-Bristol TM with B574 + B462
C506	50710	59269	50661	Noted 03/03/75 - on 2C09 1430 Swansea-Newport with C510
C506	50710	59269	50661	Noted 05/03/75 - 2C09 1430 Swansea-Newport with C534
C506	50710	59269	50661	Noted 28/11/75 - on 2C38 1621 Weston SM-Cardiff with C605
C506	50710	59269	50661	Noted 01/12/75 - on 2B46 1625 Cardiff-Bristol TM
C610	50710	59269	50661	Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
	50710	59269	50661	Noted 04/09/76 - at Cardiff¹
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 12/09/76 - on 2C36 1700 Cheltenham-Cardiff
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 19/09/76 - on 1O69 1240 Cardiff-Salisbury with C500
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 16/02/77 - on 2C54 2132 Bristol TM-Cardiff
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 07/09/77 - at Shrewsbury²
C610	50710	59269	50661	Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 22/02/78 - on 2C56 2305 Cardiff-Swansea
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 05/06/78 - on 2C01 0549 Newport-Chepstow with C611
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 24/08/78 - working 5C99 with C612 seen at Swansea
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 01/09/78 - on 2C50 2133 Bristol TM-Cardiff with 975540 attached
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 02/12/1978 - Swansea³
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 24/03/1979 - at Swansea⁴
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 16/04/1979 - at Swansea Station⁴
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 24/06/1979 - Cardiff Canton³
C610	50710	59269	50661	Listed at CF - 03/03/80
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 06/07/1980 - at Carmarthen ³
C610	50710	59269	50661	Noted 03/09/1980 - at Bristol Temple Meads ³
C506	50710	59269	50661	Noted 27/10/1980 - At Cardiff Central⁴
	50710	59269	50661	Noted 08/09/1981 - on Chester depot ³
	50710	59269	50661	Noted 28/07/1982 - in Swindon Works³
	50710	59269	50661	Noted 26/08/1982 - at Westbury, on Weymouth service³
	50710	59269	50661	Noted 02/10/1982 - at Wolverhampton ³
	50710	59269	50661	Noted 21/11/1982 - on Chester depot ³
	50710	59269	50661	Noted circa 02/1983⁵
	53710	59269	53661	Noted circa 04/1983⁵

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

Images:

18th January 1965

An official image from the Swindon Works Accident series, negative 5AB/54. Left to right are W50868, W59269, W55019. 18/1/65. British Railways.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 4th August 1962

Set number: 504

A Swindon Cross-Country DMU (50710 + 59269 and presumably 50661) forms the 5.40pm to Birmingham Snow Hill and Honeybourne at Wolverhampton Low Level on 4 August 1962. Michael Mensing.

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