Vehicle 59362
Class 116
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30365
Diagram: 555
Allocations
| w/e 01/03/58 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Cathays) | |
| Jan-61 | Depot code change | 88B | |
| Mar-62 | Depot code change | 88M | |
| Nov-64 | Transferred to | 86A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Jan-65 | Transferred to | 84A (Laira) | |
| Jun-66 | Stored U. | 84A (Laira) | |
| Jan-67 | Reinstated | 84A (Laira) | |
| Aug-68 | Transferred to | 86A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | CF | |
| 19/04/87 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
| 14/06/87 | Withdrawn from | TS (Tyseley) |
Refurbished
At Swindon Works dated 09/06/1978 released in white/blue stripe liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50854 | 59362 | 50907 | As delivered to 88A - February 1958 | ||||||
| 50854 | 59362 | 50907 | Transfer to 84A - Jan-65 | ||||||
| 50855 | 59362 | 50908 | Transfer to 82A - Jan-66 | ||||||
| CTN314 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71 | |||||
| 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 25/08/1971 - at Cardiff1 | ||||||
| 314 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 02/11/72 | |||||
| C314 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 06/04/1974 - Monmouthshire Railway Society Ogmore and Llynfi Limited Railtour | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 06/08/74 - at Barry Island | |||||
| C314 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 26/08/75 - in Cardiff Central2 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Listed at CF - 01/05/1976 | |||||
| 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 04/09/76 - at Cardiff3 | ||||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 04/09/76 - in Cardiff Central2 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 22/05/1977 - Cardiff area4 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Listed at CF - 31st December 1977 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 09/04/1978 - Swindon Works. 4 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 25/06/1978 - Cardiff Canton4 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 02/12/1978 - Cardiff Central4 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Listed at CF - 03/03/80 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 06/07/1980 - on Cardiff Canton depot4 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 09/09/1980 - at Cardiff Central4 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Listed at CF - 01/03/81 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Listed at CF - 28/11/81 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Noted 28/03/1982 - on Cardiff Canton depot4 | |||||
| C304 | 50088 | 59362 | 50130 | Listed at CF - 15/12/1982 | |||||
| C304 | 53088 | 59362 | 53130 | Noted circa 09/19835 | |||||
| C304 | 53088 | 59362 | 53130 | Listed at CF - 01/01/85 | |||||
| 53088 | 59362 | 53130 | Noted 06/07/85 - Cardiff Central6 | ||||||
| C304 | 53088 | 59362 | 53130 | Listed at CF - Summer 1986 | |||||
| C304 | 53088 | 59362 | 53130 | Noted 05/06/19865 | |||||
| 59362 | Noted 30/08/1988 - on Ayr depot, withdrawn4 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Martin Lumley
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Martin Baumann
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 6th April 1974
Set number: C314
Class 116 DMU set C314 (50130 + 59362 + 50088) with the Monmouthshire Railway Society Ogmore & Llynfi Limited railtour at Llynfi Junction on 6.4.74. Alongside is GWR pannier 9642. George Woods.
Date: 21st August 1976
Set number: C304
Class 116 DMU set C304 (W50088 and presumably 59362 + 50130) sits in Neath station with the 08:52 (SO) Cardiff Central - Swansea service on 21 August 1976. Robert Thomas.
Date: 1982
Set number: C304
Class 116 set C304 (presumably 50130 + 59362 + 50088) at Rhiwbina in 1982. Michael Mensing.
Date: 1984
Set number: C304
Class 116 set C304 (presumably 53130 + 59362 + 53088) at Ystrad Mynach in early 1984. Michael Mensing.
Date: 1984
Set number: C304
Class 116 set C304 (presumably 53088 + 59362 + 53130) at Heath in early 1984. Michael Mensing.
Date: 1984
Set number: C304
Class 116 set C304 (presumably 53088 + 59362 + 53130) at Llanishen in early 1984. Michael Mensing.
Date: 1984
Set number: C304
Class 116 set C304 (53130 and presumably 59362 + 53088) at Caerphilly in early 1984. Michael Mensing.
Date: 1984
Set number: C304
Class 116 set C304 (53130 and presumably 59362 + 53088) at Llanishen in 1984. Michael Mensing.
Date: 1984
Set number: C304
Class 116 set C304 (53088 and presumably 59362 + 53130) arriving into Ystrad Mynach in 1984. Michael Mensing.
Date: 28th September 1985
Set number: C304
C304 (presumably 53130 + 59362 + 53088) at the rear of a 6-car formation at Barry Island, 28/9/85. Chris Lings.
Date: 10th March 1986
Set number: C304
Passing some fine GWR lower quadrant semaphores as it pulls away from Radyr on 10th March 1986 is Derby Class 116 3 car DMU set C304. Allocated to CF and wearing "Valley Lines" branding it is formed of W53088 + W59362 + W53130 and is working the 1213 Treherbert - Barry Island service. Delivered new to CF (86A) in September 1957 in its original formation of W50088 + W59038 + W50130 it was to remain working on the Western Region for just over 30 years with spells at CF, Cardiff Cathays and LA. It swapped its original trailer car for W59362 sometime around 1971 and became set C304 in 1974 after previously carrying set no's CDF 406, CTN 314, 314 and C314. The trailer vehicle 59362 was transferred away to TS on 19th April 1987 (where it lasted just under two weeks before being withdrawn) while both of the Driving vehicles were withdrawn from CF also on 19th April 1987 before being scrapped at Vic Berry's at Leicester. Nigel Mack.