Vehicle 59828 / 975327
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
| May-63 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 86A | |
| Apr-68 | Transferred to | 81D (Reading) | |
| 20/04/70 | Stored | 81A (Old Oak Common) | |
| 08/08/70 | Withdrawn from | 81A (Old Oak Common) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | OC | |
| Jun-74 | To departmental stock | OC (Old Oak Common) | - as breakdown train mess vehicle |
| by 01/01/85 | Transferred to | WR | - no longer allocated to a depot, RCE staff and dorm coach for rail grinder DX79105 |
| circa late 1986 | Withdrawn from | WR |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
59828 - original number
975327 - from circa 1974 (departmental stock)
Department Use as ADB / DB975327
Staff & dormitory coach first for OC breakdown train (ADB prefix), then for rail profiler DX79105 (DB prefix) From 1974 to 1987.
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 52091 | 59823 | 59828 | 52101 | As delivered to CDF - May 1963 | |||||
| 52093 | 59828 | 59818 | 52098 | Noted 03/08/67 - at Southampton Central1 | |||||
| 975327 | Noted 20/07/75 - on Old Oak Common depot2 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
Images:
30th April 1977
Ex-Class 123 59828, now 975327 seen at Old Oak Common on 30/4/77. Tony Willmore.
October 1984
Hiding amongst the wagons at Worcester Shrub Hill is 975327, a former Class 123 buffet car. Paul James.