Vehicle 59454
Class 125
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Orange Star
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30463
Diagram: 597
Allocations
| 30/01/59 | New to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 5w/e 31/05/69 | Transferred to | 34G (Finsbury Park) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | FP | |
| 28/01/77 | Withdrawn from | FP (Finsbury Park) |
Notes
01/02/78 - withdrawn Class 125 vehicles at March: 50991, 50994, 50995, 51000, 51001, 51004, 51006, 51155, 51160, 51161, 51163, 51166, 51169, 51173, 59449, 59454, 59457, 59458, 59459, 59461, 59463, 59465, 59466, 59467, 59468
Disposal
Scrapped by CF Booth, Rotherham
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50993 | 59454 | 51159 | As delivered to 30A - 30th January 1959 | ||||||
| 51169 | 59454 | 51002 | Noted 10/08/1974 - at Kings Cross1 | ||||||
| 51171 | 59454 | 50992 | Noted 20/04/75 - on Stratford depot2 | ||||||
| 51171 | 59454 | 51006 | Noted 30/04/75 - on Stratford depot3 |
Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Gerald Brown
Images:
1959
A Derby Works image (negative 59/61) taken in Duffield station showing the interior of trailer second E59454 in early 1959. A series of partitions split the vehicle into five compartments. British Railways.
1959
A Derby Works image (negative 59/62) taken in Duffield station showing the interior of trailer second E59454 in early 1959. Taken inside a smoking compartment looking into a non-smoking compartment. British Railways.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 1959
A Derby Works image (negative 59/55) of E51159 + E59454 + E50993 in early 1959, presumably on the Wirksworth branch. British Railways.
Date: 1959
A Derby Works image (negative 59/56) of E50993 + E59454 + E51159 in early 1959, presumably on the Wirksworth branch. British Railways.
Date: 1959
A Derby Works image (negative 59/65) taken in Duffield station showing two triple seats along a partition in a non-smoking compartment in either TS E59454 or DMS E50993 in early 1959. The formica on the side walls was the same pattern as that being used on the Swindon Inter-City sets being build at the same time. British Railways.
Date: April 1969
Two BR (Derby) Suburban (later Class 125) 3-car dmu's Nos. E51156 (125/2), E59454 (185), E50990 (125/1) and E51159 (125/2), E59453 (185), E51005 (125/1) in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends leaving Broad Street on a Hitchin service, 04/69. Hugh Llewelyn.
Date: June 1976
Two BR (Derby) Suburban (Class 125) 3-car dmu's Nos. E50993 (125/1), E59454 (185), E51159 (125/2) and E51005 (125/1), E59466 (185), E51171 (125/2) in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends at Wood Green on a Welwyn Garden City - Kings Cross service, 06/76. Hugh Llewelyn.
Date: 22nd June 1978
A number of Class 125 DMU vehicles in March yard on 22 June 1978. These had been withdrawn from Finsbury Park (FP) depot a few months earlier, presumably following the electrification of the suburban lines out of Kings Cross, and the introduction of new Class 313 emus. The vehicles pictured were scrapped at Doncaster Works, Booths (Rotherham) or Birds (Long Marston). I think some of these vehicles were at March for a few years, as I saw a report that 5 of the driving trailers present (51001/51004/51006/51163/51169/51173) were in Doncaster Works awaiting scrapping in March 1981. A full list of the other stock present was: 50991/50994/50995/51155/51160 (all five seen or just seen in the image), 59449/59454/59457/59458/59459/59461/59463/59465/59467/59468. 59468 is nearest the camera in my photo. This had been new, from Derby Works in September 1959 and was withdrawn (from FP) in January 1977. 59468 was scrapped at Booths. Lewis Bevan.