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Vehicle 59824


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

May-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)
w/e 18/12/76 Stored CF (Cardiff Canton)
09/04/78 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
20/05/84 Withdrawn from BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


52092 59824 59829 52102 As delivered to CDF - May 1963
52090 59829 59824 52091 Noted 19/09/64 - at Gloucester
514 52094 59824 52102 Noted circa Jan-70 - Reading set
52094 59824 52102 Noted 08/04/70 - at Royal Oak1
RDG514 52094 59824 52102 Listed at 81D - circa Aug-70
52092 59824 52094 Noted 19/11/70 - at Paddington2
52094 59824 52102 Noted 11/02/71 - at Royal Oak1
L714 52094 59824 52102 Noted 30/04/75 - at Royal Oak1
C714 52094 59824 52102 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
C714 52094 59824 52102 Noted 26/09/76 - on 2V67 1345 Crewe-Cardiff with C600
C714 52094 59824 52102 Listed at CF - 31st December 1977
52088 59824 52100 Noted 17/09/19783
51962 51981 59824 52097 Noted 15/09/19793
52098 59824 52093 Noted 27/10/19793
52098 51983 59824 52100 Noted 19/07/19803
52091 59824 59770 52098 Noted 27/10/19803
52092 59824 59770 51964 Noted 01/11/19803
52097 59771 59824 52092 Noted 03/01/19813
52092 59768 59824 51956 Noted circa 19833

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Eddie Knorn

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 31st August 1979

E52104 + E59824 + E51977 and E50379 + E56473 at Selby with a Hull-Leeds service on 1979-08-31. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 25th April 1983

51962 + 59824 + 59237 + 52088 at Doncaster with a Manchester - Cleethorpes service on 25 April 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 19th April 1984

An EMU and DMU line-up at Manchester Piccadilly on 19 April 1984. Right to left are Class 123 E52096 (with E59824 + E59773 + E52089), Class 104 M53450 (with M59187 + M53491), the single-engined Class 104 M78601 (with M78851) and a Class 506 EMU. Keith Long.