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Vehicle 50366 / 53366


Class 105

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: 30280
Diagram: 525

Allocations

12/01/57 New to 53C (Hull Springhead)
30/11/58 Transferred to 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) - (53C closed)
Jan-60Depot code change50C
4w/e 09/10/65 On loan to 31A (Cambridge)
w/e 16/10/65 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 30/05/70 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-71 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
Feb-72 On loan to 1E (Bletchley) - 'to ease the electrical load during the power crisis'
Feb-72 Ex-loan back to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
Apr-73 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
w/e 23/04/78 Transferred to SF (Stratford)
24/03/85 Transferred to NC (Norwich)
12/10/86 Withdrawn from NC (Norwich)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50366 - original number
53366 - from 21/04/83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50366 56121 As delivered to 53C - 12th January 1957
50366 56121 Transfer to 31A - 4w/e 09/10/65 - On loan from NER
50366 56376 Noted 18/09/70 - at Peterborough1
50366 56128 Transfer to 1E - Feb-72 - on loan from 50C
42 50366 56137 Noted 31/05/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56137 Noted 07/06/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56137 Noted 03/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56137 Noted 21/12/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56124 Noted 18/01/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56124 Noted 22/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56436 Noted 26/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56436 Noted 01/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56436 Noted 02/06/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 Listed at NR - 19/07/75 - plus unknown trailer
42 50366 56443 Noted circa 08/1975 - at Solihull with Norwich set 883
42 50366 56443 Noted 24/10/75 - on Norwich depot2
42 50366 56307 Noted 03/03/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56119 Noted 30/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
42 50366 56185 Noted 25/02/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2
50366 56133 Noted circa 04/19834
53366 54455 Noted circa 07/19834
53366 54143 Transfer to NR - 24/03/85
53366 54143 Noted 29/05/85 - at Norwich2
34 53366 54421 Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
34 53366 54421 Listed at NC - Dec-85
34 53366 54421 Noted 12/04/19864
34 53366 54421 Listed at Norwich - Summer 1986
34 53366 54421 Noted 11/07/86
34 53366 54421 Noted 13/08/86

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

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Norwich

28th July 1973

Set number: 42

Two Cravens DMUs in Norwich station on 28 July 1973. Closest is set 42 (presumably 50366 + 56137) on the 11:50 to Yarmouth, set 48 is on the 11:40 to Sheringham. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Custom House

1st June 1979

A Cravens unit (E50366 leading with E56122) enters Custom House station on 1st June 1979, where considerable rebuilding is in progress. The train is the 19.24 from Camden Road to North Woolwich. The Brunswick Wharf (Blackwall) power station is in the background - it was decommissioned in 1984. Tom Burnham.

Class 105 DMU at Sheringham

circa 1985

Set number: 34

Two DMU at Sheringham circa 1985, the closest being set 34, presumably 53366 + 54421, the DMBS still carrying its non-standard headlamps from its time at Stratford (it moved from Stratford to Norwich in March 1985). David Faircloth.

Class 105 DMU at Leicester

13th March 1986

Set number: 34

Arriving at Leicester is a terminating service from Market Harborough on the 13th March 1986 with 53366 at the front. Dennis Taylor.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 15th March 1986

Set number: 34

At Norwich on 15/3/86 is Sheringham bound Set 30 on the left (E54125 closest) alongside Set 34, a relatively recent arrival at Norwich depot, but destined to be one of the final seven sets based there. Formed of E54421 & E53366, the set number is shown in the old destination indicator on the trailer which is possibly unique. Photo by Philip Mott. Gerard Fletcher.

DMU

Date: 11th July 1986

Set number: 34

Cravens unit E54421 and E53366 (Norwich set 34) on a Peterborough to Cambridge working passing Kiln Lane, Ely. 11.07.86. Nicholas Youngman.

DMU

Date: 13th August 1986

Set number: 34

Norwich allocated Cravens class 105 dmu made up of cars E54421 + E53366 is seen running along the River Yare, nearing Haddiscoe with a Norwich-Lowestoft service, 13th August 1986. Andrew J Crowther.