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Vehicle 59284

Class 120

BR Diagram 561

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 12/07/58 New to 86C (Cardiff Canton)
Jan-61Depot code change88A
Sep-63Depot code change86A
Oct-65 Transferred to 82A (Bristol Bath Road)
02/05/71 Transferred to 84A (Laira)
04/10/71 Transferred to 82A (Bristol Bath Road)
06/05/73Depot code changeBR
30/06/74 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
w/e 08/05/76 Transferred to LA (Laira)
w/e 03/05/80 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
20/06/82 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
11/05/86 Withdrawn from NH (Newton Heath)

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50724 59284 50673 Noted 23rd May 1966
506 50724 59284 50673 Noted Nov-68 - now in blue/grey
51574 59284 51583 Transfer to 84A - May-71
51574 59284 51583 Noted 13/11/71 - at Bristol1
51574 59284 51583 Noted 11/10/72 - at Pritchatts Rd, Edgbaston1
B553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 12/04/74 - at Cardiff with B408
51574 59284 51583 Noted 30/05/1974 - at Great Malvern2
51574 59284 51583 Noted 01/06/74 - in Birmingham New Street
51574 59284 51583 Noted 29/08/1974 - at Cardiff2
B553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 02/09/74 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven with C601
B553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 12/09/74 - on 2B46 1620 Cardiff-Weymouth with C303 + B468
C553 51574 59284 51586 Noted 20/12/75 - on 2V67 0603 Crewe-Cardiff with C504
C553 51574 59284 51586 Noted 05/01/76 - on 2C08 0735 Chepstow-Cardiff
51574 59284 51583 Transfer to LA - w/e 08/05/76
P553 51574 59284 51583 Listed at LA - May-76
P553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 07/09/76 - in Plymouth station3
P553 51574 59284 51573 Noted 30/10/1977 - Plymouth4
P553 51574 59284 51583 Listed at LA - 31st December 1977
P553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 17/03/1979 - Swindon Works. Outshopped following C3 overhaul 4/794
P553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 27/08/1979 - Newton Abbot on Exeter local5
P553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 24/02/1980 - on Laira depot 4
P553 51574 59284 51583 Listed at LA - 03/03/80
P553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 22/03/1980 - on Laira depot 4
553 51574 59284 51583 Transfer to CF - w/e 03/05/80
C553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 06/07/1980 - on Cardiff Canton depot 4
C553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 09/09/1980 - at Carmarthen 4
C553 51574 59284 51583 Noted 25/01/1981 - on Cardiff Canton depot 4
C553 51574 59284 51583 Listed at CF - 01/03/81
C553 51574 59284 51583 Listed at CF - 28/11/81
C553 51574 59284 51583 Noted circa 10/1982 - operating from Newton Heath6
51574 59284 51583 Noted circa 03/19846
51574 59284 51583 Listed at NH - circa Jan-86

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Martin Lumley
5: Alan N Walker
6: Eddie Knorn

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 16th November 1973

Set number: B553

Class 120 Swindon Cross-Country DMU set B553 (presumably 51574 + 59284 + 51583) in Bristol Temple Meads with a Taunton service on 16 November 1973. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: circa April 1980

Set number: P553

With its destination box painted yellow, Class 120 DMU set P553 (presumably 51583 + 59284 + 51574) is seen at Teignmouth. The slide process date was April 1980. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 16th September 1981

Set number: 553

Class 120 set 553 (51574 59284 51583) leaves Droitwich with a train for Hereford. Behind is a class 117 unit. 16th September 1981 Steve Robinson.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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