Vehicle 50683 / 53683
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: 30334
Diagram: 586
Allocations
| Sep-58 | New to | WR Stock | |
| Nov-58 | Transferred to | 86C (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 06/12/59 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| 04/01/60 | Transferred to | 86C (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Jan-61 | Depot code change | 88A | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
| Nov-64 | Transferred to | 82A (Bristol Bath Road) | |
| 04/05/70 | Transferred to | 86A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | CF | |
| w/e 22/10/77 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
| 06/02/84 | Withdrawn from | CH (Chester) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50683 - original number
53683 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Modifications
p/e 30/12/72 - 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:
| BL515 | 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted circa Mar-68 - in blue grey with full yellow ends | |||||
| CTN501 | 50683 | Listed at 86A - May-70 - Other two vehicles unknown | |||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 06/11/70 - at Cardiff1 | ||||||
| CTN501 | 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71 | |||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 13/04/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiff line in formation: 50683 - 59294 - 50735 - 501322 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 24/04/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiff line in formation: (50683 - 59294 - 50735) - 550242 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 02/06/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiff line in formation: (50686 - 50733) - (50683 - 59294 - 50735) - 550222 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 21/08/1971 - at Newport3 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 20/11/71 - in Bristol Temple Meads1 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 08/01/1972 - at Crewe4 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 26/05/1973 - at Crewe4 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 31/08/1974 - at Newport3 | ||||||
| C501 | 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 26/08/75 - On Cardiff Canton depot5 | |||||
| 50714 | 59273 | 50683 | Noted 30/04/1976 - at Loughborough with service to Derby 4 | ||||||
| C512 | 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Listed at CF - 01/05/1976 | |||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 04/09/76 - at Cardiff1 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 19/02/1978 - Chester6 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 10/05/1978 - Toton6 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 09/07/1978 - Chester6 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 09/05/1979 - Swindon Works. Outshopped after C3 Overhaul 6/796 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted circa 08/19792 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 23/09/1979 - Chester6 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 17/02/1980 - on Chester depot 6 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 07/09/1980 - at Crewe 6 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 28/09/1981 - at Shrewsbury6 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 30/12/1981 - passing Leamington Spa, on transfer from Swindon Works to Tyseley6 | ||||||
| 50735 | 59294 | 50683 | Noted 21/08/1982 - on Chester depot 6 | ||||||
| 53735 | 59294 | 53683 | Noted circa 04/19832 | ||||||
| 53735 | 59294 | 53683 | Noted circa 12/19832 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Gerald Brown
6: Martin Lumley
Images:
30th May 1978
Three Class 120s inside Chester depot, including M50683 in the centre road. On the right is a Class 103 DMBS minus it's front bogie. May 30th, 1978. Rex Holt.
March 1983
A Chester allocated Class 120 seen at Wolverhampton in March 1982. Closest is M50683, the centre car is presumably M59294. Another Class 120 is on the left. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 12th May 1989
Set number: 533
120533 (53700+59532+53683) at Glasgow Central on 12-05-1989. My favourite 1st generation dmu - enjoying an 'Indian summer' on Strathclyde suburban services, shortly before the takeover of class 156 was completed. Gordon Thomson.