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British Rail Class 499
In service1968
ManufacturerEastleigh Works
Number built6
Formationsingle car
OperatorsBritish Rail
Specifications
Maximum speed90 mph (145 km/h)

British Rail allocated Class 499 to a fleet of six luggage vans used in electric multiple unit formations on boat train services between London and Dover. They were allocated Southern Region class TLV (meaning Trailer Luggage Van).

They were converted from former Brake Gangwayed (BG) vehicles in 1968 to supplement the Class 419 Motor Luggage Van fleet. However, following the decline of boat train traffic, they were all stored in 1975. After a period in use as match wagons for transferring new Class 432 and 491 units from York Works, they were all taken into departmental stock initially as stores vans, but later as breakdown train tool vans.

Number Status
As EMU Previous Departmental
68201 80915 ADB975611 Scrapped (2011)
68202 80918 ADB975613 Scrapped (2011)
68203 80922 ADB975612 Scrapped (2011)
68204 80925 ADB975614 Scrapped (1996)
68205 80942 ADB975610 Scrapped (1996)
68206 80951 ADB975615 Scrapped (2008)

Registered London Underground Stock

Main article: London Underground rolling stock

From 1994, Railtrack allocated the Class 499 designation on TOPS to London Underground electric multiple units that operate on its lines. This does not involve any renumbering of the stock involved, and is only for electronic recording purposes.[1][2]

TOPS Number LU Type LU Line Section Status Image
499/0 D78 District Gunnersbury to Richmond Withdrawn
East Putney to Wimbledon
499/1 C69/77 Withdrawn
499/2 1972 Bakerloo Queen's Park to Harrow & Wealdstone In service
499/5 S7 District Gunnersbury to Richmond In service
East Putney to Wimbledon

References

  1. ^ LUL stock given TOPS numbers The Railway Magazine issue 1145 September 1996 page 57
  2. ^ "Rolling Stock Unit formations and Asset list" (PDF). What do they Know. 31 March 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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