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Vehicle 59819


Class 123

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30705
Diagram: 567

Allocations

Feb-63 New to 88A (Cardiff Canton)
Sep-63Depot code change86A
Apr-68 Transferred to 81D (Reading)
May 1973Depot code changeRG
28/02/76 Transferred to CF (Cardiff Canton)
2w/e 09/07/77 Stored RTC (Derby RTC)
09/04/78 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
19/02/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52087 59819 59236 52097 As delivered to CDF - February 1963
52088 59819 52099 Noted 08/04/70 - at Royal Oak1
52088 59819 52099 Noted 11/02/71 - at Royal Oak1
52088 59819 52099 Noted 12/04/71 - with 52101-59818-59236-52086 / 52095-59822-52096 on 1Z35 09:05 Paddington - Plymouth footex (Fulham v Plymouth) and return departure at 18:15.
L708 52088 59819 52099 Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak1
C708 52088 59819 52099 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
C708 52088 59819 52099 Noted 31/08/76 - on 2M67 0532 Cardiff-Crewe
C708 52088 59819 52099 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
52088 59819 52098 Noted May-78
52092 51970 59819 52103 Noted 15/09/19792
52093 59770 59819 52094 Noted 19/07/19802
51955 59819 51973 51953 Noted 01/11/19802
52099 59837 59819 51952 Noted circa 04/19822
52099 59837 59819 51952 Noted 13/04/1982 - R.C.T.S. (West Midlands Branch) The Bevercotes Collier Railtour 56407-50218 + 52099-59837-59819-51952
52090 59819 59838 52096 Noted 27/08/82
52090 59238 59819 51960 Noted circa 08/19832
52102 59819 59767 52094 Noted circa 01/19842

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 123 DMU at Swindon Works

16th February 1963

Official image (Swindon Works negative 5CR259) of trailer composite W59819 on 16th February 1963. British Railways.

Inside a Class 123 DMU

16th February 1963

Official image (Swindon Works negative 5CR260) of a first class compartment in trailer composite W59819 on 16th February 1963. Note the MkII style luggage racks. British Railways.

Class 123 DMU at Selby

10th July 1978

Swindon Inter-City Class 123 Trailer Composite E59819 at Selby on July 10, 1978. It contained four first class and three second class compartments. Malcolm Clements.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 30th May 1978

A three-car Class 123 set in Leeds station on May 30th 1978 formed of 52088 + 59819 + 52098. Rex Holt.

DMU

Date: 13th April 1982

The Bevercotes Collier railtour at Bevercotes Colliery, 13/4/82. It's formed 51952, 59819, 59837, 52099 and 50218, 56407. Shayne Lewis.

DMU

Date: 13th April 1982

The Bevercotes Collier railtour at Bevercotes Colliery, 13/4/82. It's formed 51952, 59819, 59837, 52099 and 50218, 56407. Shayne Lewis.

DMU

Date: 13th April 1982

"The Bevercotes Collier" railtour at Bevercotes Colliery, 13/4/82. It's formed 51952, 59819, 59837, 52099 and 50218, 56407. Chris Lings.

DMU

Date: 13th April 1982

A fine study of 51952 (with 59819 behind) at Bevercotes Colliery while on the RCTS "The Bevercotes Collier" railtour from Doncaster, 13/4/82. Chris Lings.

DMU

Date: 27th August 1982

E52090 + E59819 + E59838 + E52096 at Morecambe Promenade after an arrival from Leeds on 27 August 1982. Robert Frise.