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Vehicle 59281


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

2w/e 14/06/58 New to 86C (Cardiff Canton)
by Oct-60 Transferred to 84E (Tyseley)
01/01/63Boundary change84Etransferred from WR to LMR stock
Sep-63Depot code change2A
Jan-64 Transferred to 82A (Bristol Bath Road)
Jun-64 Transferred to 86A (Cardiff Canton)
Feb-65 Transferred to 82A (Bristol Bath Road)
4w/e 31/05/69 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
May-73Depot code changeDY
15/05/83 Withdrawn from DY (Derby Etches Park)
Feb-85 Reinstated DY (Derby Etches Park)
Jan-86 Withdrawn from DY (Derby Etches Park) - also reported as Aug-85
Feb-86 Reinstated DY (Derby Etches Park)
16/02/86 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
Aug-86 Reinstated AY (Ayr) - from?
Feb-87 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
Oct-87 Withdrawn

Notes

Dec-83 - Officially withdrawn, but still in traffic during December at DY.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


TYS508 50725 59281 50680 Listed at TYS - circa Oct-60
EP485 50725 59281 50680 Noted circa Jun-69
50709 59281 50652 Noted 02/01/71
50709 59281 50652 Noted 06/03/1971 - at Birmingham New Street1
50709 59281 50652 Noted 04/06/71 - at Sheffield2
50697 59281 50671 Noted 03/08/1971 - at Derby1
50713 59281 50667 Noted 12/08/72 - at Peterborough3
50720 59281 50667 Noted 24/11/72 - at Ipswich4
50720 59281 50667 Noted 24/03/73 - in Birmingham New Street2
50720 59281 50667 Noted 27/04/73 - at Derby2
50720 59281 50687 Noted 11/05/73 - in Birmingham New Street2
50700 59281 50659 Noted 25/07/73 - on 1202 Swansea-Shrewsbury with 50702 + 50664
EP598 50731 59281 50692 Noted 25/08/74 - at Leicester3
50736 59281 50650 Noted 24/10/75 - at Norwich3
50725 59281 50685 Noted 31/07/76 - on 1532 Lincoln St Marks-Crewe
EP527 50703 59281 50685 Listed at DY - circa Jun-82
EP527 53703 59281 53685 Noted circa 06/1983 - Also labelled EP5885
53725 59281 53685 Noted circa 05/19845
53708 59281 53654 Noted 16/01/86 - on 21:20 Crewe - Grantham service6
506 53708 59281 53654 Formed at AY Feb-86
53708 59281 53654 Noted 24/02/86
53708 59281 53654 Noted 2nd April 1986
51248 59281 53672 Noted 7th July 1986
520 53711 59281 53672 Listed at Ayr - August 1986
spare 59281 Formation change - circa Oct-86
53706 59281 53652 Noted 07/11/19865
534 53732 59281 53686 Listed at HA - 23/03/87
534 53732 59281 53686 Noted circa 04/19875
534 53732 59281 53686 Noted 29/05/19875

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Gerald Brown
4: Ipswich Transport Society
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Martin Baumann

Images:

Class 120 DMU at Snailwell

4th September 1988

Swindon Cross-Country centre-car 59281 is seen at Snailwell on September 4, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 6th April 1985

Set number: 509

Derby Etches Park allocated Class 120 DMU set 509 (M53657 + M59281 + M53725) in Lincoln St Marks station on 6 April 1985. Phil Bevan.

DMU

Date: 15th November 1986

Set number: 617

53706 + 59281 + 53652 at Falkirk Grahamston, having arrived with the 12:08 from Glasgow Queen Street on the 15th November 1986. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: 19th March 1987

Set number: 534

Swindon Cross Country DMU set 534 departs from Stirling Station on March 19, 1987. 53732, presumably with 59281 + 53686. David Christie.

DMU

Date: 16th April 1987

Set number: 534

Class 120 set 534 (Sc53686 + 59281 + Sc53732) are amongst many other DMU vehicles stabled at Thornton on the 16th April 1987. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: August 1987

Set number: 534

Swindon class 120 Cross Country set 534 (53686 + 59281 + 53732) are seen rasping through Princes Street Gardens with a service for Kirkcaldy late one afternoon in August 1987/ Murray Liston.

DMU

Date: August 1987

Set number: 534

Smoking towards Fife. A Swindon Cross Country class 120 set (534, presumably 53732 + 59281 + 53686) smokes into Haymarket tunnel one afternoon in August 1987 on an Edinburgh to Kirkcaldy stopping service. Murray Liston.