Vehicle 59831 / 69108
Class 123
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Inter City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30707
Diagram: 569
Allocations
| Jun-63 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
| Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| 3w/e 02/05/70 | Stored | 81A (Old Oak Common) | |
| 08/08/70 | Withdrawn from | 81A (Old Oak Common) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
59831 - original number
69108 - from Jul-72 (to EMU stock)
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 52094 | 59826 | 59831 | 52104 | As delivered to CDF - June 1963 |
Images:
1973
A Class 309 arrives into Colchester with a Clacton service sometime in 1973. Why add an EMU image to a DMU website? The third vehicle is 69108 which started life as Class 123 buffet car 59831. John Law.
9th April 1978
Swindon-built former Class 123 DMU Buffet car 59831 in its new life as E69108 in a AM9 (Class 309) Clacton EMU. Taken in Liverpool Street on April 9 1978. Mark Leving.