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Vehicle 51268

Class 105

BR Diagram 532

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp / Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30469
Diagram: 532

Allocations

29/07/58 New to 31A (Cambridge)
3w/e 04/07/59 Transferred to 34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73Depot code changeFP
w/e 18/09/77 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
Dec-83Depot code changeNC
22/06/86 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
28/09/86 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr) - continued in service after withdrawal but finally taken out of traffic in December

Notes

24th April 1987 - Seen at Falkland Yard
29th April 1987 - Seen at Falkland Yard

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51268 56426 As delivered to 31A - 29th July 1958
51268 56442 Noted 01/04/69 - in Sheffield Midland1
51268 56115 Noted 30/05/70 - at Kings Cross1
51268 56138 Noted 08/08/1974 - at Kings Cross2
51268 56138 Noted 04/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51268 56138 Noted 04/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51268 56427 Noted 01/11/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51268 56427 Noted 03/04/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51268 56414 Noted 12/09/76 - at Harringay1
51268 56418 Noted 09/12/76 - on Cambridge depot3
50825 59336 51268 Noted 24/02/77 - on Cambridge depot3
63 51268 56435 Noted 06/08/78 - at Norwich3
63 51268 56435 Noted 13/08/78 - on Norwich depot3
63 51268 56435 Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
63 51268 56435 Noted 08/01/79 - at Norwich3
51268 56432 Noted 05/02/79 - at Norwich3
68 51268 54422 Noted 19/08/83 - at Norwich3
63 51268 54422 Noted circa 05/19844
63 51268 54422 Noted 22/12/84
63 51268 54422 Noted circa 04/19854
63 51268 54422 Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
51268 54422 Noted 14/12/85
63 51268 54422 Listed at NC - Dec-85
63 51268 54422 Noted circa 01/19864
63 51268 54422 Listed at Norwich - May 1986
63 51268 54422 Noted 14/06/86 - at Norwich3
63 51268 54422 Noted 26/06/1986 - at Chettisham on 12.05 Cambridge to Peterborough.5
454 51268 59785 51584 Listed at Ayr - August 1986
51268 59560 51584 Noted 28th August 1986
454 51268 59127 53730 Formation change - early Sep-86 - two vans
51268 59127 53730 Noted 5th September 1986
53730 59127 51268 Noted 11/10/1986 - working from Glasgow Queen Street to Falkirk Grahamston4

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Nicholas Youngman

Images:

Class 105 DMU at West Runton

4th August 1984

Set number: 63

Two twin car Norwich allocated Cravens class 105 dmu's both still with their 1st Class accommodation, pull out of West Runton after calling with a Norwich - Sheringham service on 4th August 1984. Closest is probably 51268. Andrew J Crowther.

Class 105 DMU at Queen Adelaide

9th January 1985

E51268 + E54422 with the 14.10 Peterborough to Cambridge passing Queen Adelaide on 9th January 1985. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 105 DMU at Cambridge

19th October 1985

Set number: 63

On a journey from Leamington Spa to Ely on 19 October 1985 we stopped at Cambridge where I photographed all-blue class 105 DMU, 51268 + 54422, receding from the camera probably making a shunt move between platforms at the station. Peter Tandy.

Class 105 DMU at Paisley Gilmour Street

circa August 1986

Set number: 454

Class 105 DMBS E51268 is on the rear of this formation leaving Paisley Gilmour Street, circa August 1986. Andrew McConnell.

Class 105 DMU at Howwood

28th August 1986

Set number: 454

Hybrid sets in a variety of liveries. Cravens DMBS 51268 (leading) is with a 107 and 120, at Howwood on August 28, 1986, with a Glasgow - Ayr service. Hamish Stevenson.

Class 105 DMU at Glasgow Central

circa September 1986

Set number: 454

105454 departing from Glasgow Central circa September 1986. Andrew McConnell.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 5th March 1980

Set number: 63

Wednesday would usually be my day off from work around the time this photograph was taken, so quite often I would buy an Anglia Day Ranger ticket and do a circular tour from March or King's Lynn. This was the case on 5/3/80 when this was the scene alongside Ipswich station at 11.25 that morning. Set 63 with Felixstowe on the blinds comprised E56432 with power car E51268 at the rear. The most interesting aspect of this shot though, are the two dmu cars in the background. Set 70 has obviously had some incident befall it, as Gloucester RCW Class 100 power car E51127 has been separated from its partner Cravens Class 105 trailer E56134. Some of the Gloucester RCW units had charmed lives and E51127 had already survived being withdrawn in 1972 and stored in 1974 on its native Scottish Region, before being sent down to Norwich in May 1975. It lasted here until October 1980 when it was dispatched to the LMR ending up at Tyseley and finally Newton Heath from where it was retired in Dec. 82. Gerard Fletcher.

DMU

Date: 29th July 1981

Set number: 58

E51255 + E56130 / E51268 + E56131 with the 1645 ex-Norwich at Peterborough on 27/7/81. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 29th July 1981

Set number: 63

E56131 + E51268 at Norwich with the 16:45 to Peterborough, 29/7/81. John Carter.

DMU

Date: May 1984

Set number: 63

Class 105 DMU set 63 (presumably 54422 + 51268) with an Ely service at Thetford in May 1984. Bill Fraser.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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