Vehicle 59779
Class 124
Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Trans Pennine
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Lot Number: 30606
Diagram: 562
Allocations
| 25/10/60 | New to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| 4w/e 25/03/67 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
| 26/10/75 | Withdrawn from | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) |
Notes
18/01/76 - 59775/6/7/8/9 and 79111 noted at Botanic Gardens depot, withdrawn, awaiting removal for scrap. All noted there again on 21/2/76.
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51961 | 51978 | 59770 | 59779 | 51979 | 51962 | As delivered to 55H - 25th October 1960 | |||
| 51958 | 51978 | 59769 | 59779 | 51981 | 51964 | Noted 17/10/1969 - Leeds, on 13.40 Hull to Liverpool service1 | |||
| 51961 | 51982 | 59779 | 59768 | 51975 | 51959 | Noted 12/01/1970 - Leeds to Hull service, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51964 | 51976 | 59767 | 59779 | 51981 | 51960 | Noted 21/02/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51967 | 51981 | 59779 | 59766 | 51984 | 51953 | Noted 14/03/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51957 | 51972 | 59779 | 59769 | 51984 | 51959 | Noted 29/04/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51962 | 51976 | 59767 | 59779 | 51978 | 51951 | Noted 27/10/1970 - Leeds, recorded by A S Fowkes. Source data obtained via BR Coaching Stock Group.2 | |||
| 51967 | 51974 | 59771 | 59779 | 51957 | Noted 09/11/1971 - York, on 15.07 service to Manchester Victoria1 | ||||
| 51955 | 59769 | 59779 | 51984 | 51508 | Noted 05/01/75 - on Botanic Gardens depot3 | ||||
| 51957 | 51968 | 59771 | 59779 | 51984 | 51508 | Noted 09/01/75 - at Selby3 |
Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Gerald Brown
Images:
6th May 1976
Class 124 Trans-Pennine buffet car E59779 (and E59775) on Hull Botanic Gardens depot, 6 May 1976. It had been withdrawn the previous October but would not be scrapped for another five years. Brian Daniels.