Vehicle 50729 / 53729 / 55949
Class 120
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30335
Diagram: 587
Allocations
| Aug-58 | New to | 86C (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Jan-61 | Depot code change | 88A | |
| Jul-63 | Transferred to | 83D (Laira) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 84A | |
| Sep-63 | Transferred to | 86A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | CF | |
| w/e 22/10/77 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
| 13/05/85 | Transferred to | DY (Derby Etches Park) | |
| Jan-86 | Withdrawn from | DY (Derby Etches Park) | |
| Feb-86 | Reinstated | DY (Derby Etches Park) | - intended for parcels sector at CH |
| Mar-86 | Withdrawn | - Reinstatement cancelled | |
| 2w/e 07/05/86 | Reinstated | DY (Derby Etches Park) | |
| 11/05/86 | Transferred to | CA (Cambridge) | |
| 06/07/86 | To Parcels Sector at | CA (Cambridge) | |
| 27/07/86 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
| 02/11/86 | Stored U. | NL (Neville Hill) | |
| 03/05/87 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50729 - original number
53729 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
55949 - from 04/04/87 (parcels conversion) - number allocated but never carried
Modifications
p/e 12/08/72 - Dual AWS fitted
p/e 14/05/77 - WR AWS removed
Disposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted circa Feb-68 - in blue grey with full yellow ends | ||||||
| CTN516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Listed at 86A - May-70 | |||||
| CTN516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71 | |||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 20/03/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiff line in formation: (50660 - 59266 - 50729) - 550231 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 05/04/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiif line in formation: 55026 - 50729 - 59266 - 506601 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 01/05/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiff line in formation: 55026 - (50660 - 59266 - 50729)1 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 24/06/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiff line in formation: 55022 - (50729 - 59266 - 50660)1 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 20/08/1971 - at Abergavenny2 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 21/08/1971 - at Newport2 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 25/08/1971 - at Cardiff2 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 26/08/1971 - at Newport2 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 18/09/1971 - at Crewe2 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 08/01/1972 - at Crewe3 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 26/05/1973 - at Crewe3 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 30/06/1973 - at Newport2 | ||||||
| C516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 03/09/73 - at Shrewsbury4 | |||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 09/02/1974 - Swansea to Cardiff service.5 | ||||||
| C516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 27/04/74 - on 06:52 Weston SM-Cardiff | |||||
| C516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 25/05/74 - on 2V67 0603 Crewe-Cardiff | |||||
| C516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 13/08/74 - on 2M67 0750 Cardiff-Crewe with 55025 + C502 + C530 | |||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 29/08/1974 - at Cardiff2 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 29/08/1974 - at Crewe3 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 02/09/74 - in Bristol Temple Meads4 | ||||||
| C516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 07/09/74 - on 2V67 1600 Crewe-Cardiff with 55026 + P556 | |||||
| C516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 12/09/74 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven with B560 | |||||
| C516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 26/08/75 - at Newport4 | |||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 26/08/75 - On Cardiff Canton depot4 | ||||||
| C516 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 28/08/75 - at Crewe4 | |||||
| C505 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Listed at CF - 01/05/1976 | |||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 04/09/76 - at Bristol6 | ||||||
| C505 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 04/09/76 - in Cardiff Central4 | |||||
| C505 | 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 22/05/1977 - Cardiff area5 | |||||
| 50729 | 59295 | 50651 | Noted 12/09/1977 - at Leicester on on service to Birmingham3 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 19/02/1978 - Chester5 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 02/09/1978 - North Wales5 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 11/02/1979 - Chester5 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 17/03/1979 - Swindon Works. Outshopped after C3 Overhaul 4/795 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 17/02/1980 - on Chester depot 5 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 22/10/1980 - Working 0833 Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton7 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted 06/06/1981 - in Swindon Works 5 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59266 | 50660 | Noted circa 05/19821 | ||||||
| 50729 | 59070 | 50660 | Noted 21/11/1982 - on Chester depot 5 | ||||||
| 53729 | 59070 | 53660 | Noted circa 04/19831 | ||||||
| 53729 | 59070 | 53660 | Noted circa 09/19841 | ||||||
| 53729 | 59070 | 53660 | Noted 01/08/85 | ||||||
| 53729 | 59070 | 53660 | Noted 01/08/85 - at Norwich, 53657 carried set number 5094 | ||||||
| 53725 | 53729 | Formation change - CA - 2w/e 14/05/86 - Parcels | |||||||
| 53725 | 53729 | Listed at Cambridge - Summer 1986 - Parcels |
Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Martin Lumley
6: Leonard Rogers
7: Shayne Lewis
Images:
10th July 1976
Set number: C505
Two Cross-Country DMUs - M50729 of set C505 leading - at Selly Oak, Birmingham, on 10 July 1976. Phillip Malin.
4th July 1981
A Class 120 Swindon Cross-Country DMU at Dovey Junction with the 16:43 Shrewsbury-Aberystwyth on 4 July 1981. Robert Thomas.
10th May 1983
Class 120/101 hybrid DMU with car 53729 leading leaving Chester at Northgate Locks, 10-5-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
14th January 1984
For a big and bustling station Crewe had it's quiet corners. Slumbering in a bay platform is class 120 53729 which, according to my notes, had been working a football special, it was a set from the Derby - Crewe services so perhaps it was a local affair. As ever with Crewe station mail bag trolleys are scattered everywhere. Geoff Dowling.
17th August 1985
The signalman at Fiskerton has already begun to open the crossing gates to road traffic. The train that has just departed Fiskerton Station is the 11.23 Lincoln - Nottingham service composed of the usual Class 120 unit, the trailing car is 53729 a Swindon DMBC. 17/08/1985. Geoff Dowling.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 13th September 1975
Set number: C516
W50660 is leading 59266 and 50729 on a Cardiff to Crewe service as it enters Newport station on 13 September 1975. Jeremy Chapter.
Date: 4th July 1981
This 4 July 1981 view of Dovey Junction station has M56354 on the 18:30 (SO) to Barmouth on the left and M50729 working the 16:43 Shrewsbury-Aberystwyth on the right. Robert Thomas.
Date: 16th May 1986
Set number: EP516
A Class 120 DMU formed of two DMBSs (M53725 + M53729) in Manchester Piccadilly on 16 May 1986. John Carter.