59098 Class 126 Trailer Buffet First Lavatory (Scrapped)

Last Location	North Yorkshire Moors Railway	Location History	North Yorkshire Moors Railway Apr 73-May 94
Current Status	Scrapped at MC Metals 1994
Last Livery
Partner Vehicle(s)	59099
Record Last Updated	15 March 2013
Preservation Modifications Body grounded in 1979. Extensive alterations internally for use as a camping coach.
Preservation Information 59098 was preserved on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in April 1973, not as a DMU vehicle in its own right but to provide volunteer facilities. 59098 was converted into a camping coach at Goathland and never saw any passenger service during its preservation life. In 1979 the vehicle gave up its bogies to be used under BR Pullman coaches 'Opal' and 'Garnet' and continued to be used as a grounded body. Contaminated with asbestos and becoming a liability, 59098 donated some remaining fittings to surviving vehicle 79443, and was then scrapped at MC Metals in May 1994, along with 59099 which had also been in use at Goathland. The disposal of these two vehicles (the last Class 126 buffet cars) left a non buffet Class 126 centre car and a similar Edinburgh & Glasgow buffet in preservation. This was not seen as a problem however as in any event there was only a single surving pair of Class 126 powercars at this point, so there was a surplus of trailer cars.