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Vehicle 51472

Class 105

BR Diagram 548

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: 30503
Diagram: 548

Allocations

09/02/59 New to 40A (Lincoln)
3w/e 01/08/59 Transferred to 34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
3w/e 02/07/60 Transferred to 40A (Lincoln)
4w/e 29/06/63 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73Depot code changeFP
w/e 12/02/78 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
03/10/82 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
Dec-83Depot code changeNC
27/07/86 Withdrawn from NC (Norwich)
03/08/86 Reinstated NC (Norwich)
w/e 04/08/86 Transferred to LN (Lincoln)
Sep-86 Withdrawn from LN (Lincoln)

Notes

31st October 1987 - Seen at Tinsley Yard
27th December 1987 - Seen in Tinsley Yard

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51472 56461 As delivered to 40A - 9th February 1959
51472 56461 Transfer to 34G - 4w/e 29/06/63
50377 51472 Noted 21/07/66
51472 56423 Noted 01/01/1972 - at Kings Cross1
51472 56421 Noted 20/07/73 - at Ipswich2
51472 56456 Noted 09/1974 - at Kings Cross1
51472 56131 Noted 25/05/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51472 56115 Noted 14/09/75 - at Kings Cross
51472 56423 Noted 17/01/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51472 56449 Noted 03/07/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51472 56458 Noted 28/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51472 Noted 20/01/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle3
56 51472 56450 Noted 30/10/82 - at Bury St Edmunds3
56 51472 54436 Noted circa 12/19834
56 51472 54417 Noted circa 04/19854
56 51472 54417 Noted 04/05/1985 - Hertfordshire Railtours Craven Image (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrc31176/4989117077/)
56 51472 54417 Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
56 51472 54417 Listed at NC - Dec-85
51472 54420 Noted 15/03/86
56 51472 54420 Noted 22/03/19864
56 51472 54420 Listed at Norwich - Summer 1986
51472 54420 Noted 02/08/86
56 51472 54420 Noted 27/09/1986 - 0738 Cambridge to Peterborough (https://tinyurl.com/uygsgqy)

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Ipswich Transport Society
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Cambridge

15th July 1972

Class 03 D2006 (with a conflat L to avoid getting lost on the cross over track circuits) shunts Cravens DMBS E51274 at Cambridge Mill Road on 15 July 1972. The ex-works Finsbury Park allocated vehicle had arrived in a train of coaching stock hauled by Brush 2 5664 with an LNER TPO at the front. Nicholas T Smith.

Class 105 DMU at Norwich Thorpe

16th July 1984

Set number: 56

Class 105 Cravens DMUs awaits their next duties at Norwich Thorpe, L to R F to B 51472 + 54125, 51247 (Met Cam) + 53380, 16-7-84. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

Class 105 DMU at Saltley

4th August 1984

A Class 105 set with 51472 closest is seen passing Saltley on it's way from New Street to Norwich on 04.08.1984. Andy Cole.

Class 105 DMU at Ely

2nd August 1986

E51472 + E54420 and Metro Cammel M51197 + M54336 with the 14.18 Ely To Norwich service near Ely on August 2, 1986. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 15th March 1986

E54420 + E51472 with the 14.10 Ely to Norwich at Ely, March 15th 1986. Nicholas Youngman.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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