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<- 56119 | 56120 | 56121 ->

Vehicle 56120

Class 105

BR Diagram 526

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30281
Diagram: 526

Allocations

01/01/57 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)
3w/e 27/11/65 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
Oct-68 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-71 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73Depot code changeBG
w/e 18/10/75 Transferred to LN (Lincoln)
30/01/77 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
w/e 01/05/77 Transferred to BY (Bletchley)
circa Feb-82 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
28/02/82 Withdrawn

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50365 56120 As delivered to 53C - 1st January 1957
50365 56120 Transfer to 31A - 4w/e 09/10/65 - On loan from NER
50365 56120 Transfer to 50C - 3w/e 27/11/65
51125 56120 Noted 21/12/70 - at Norwich1
50379 56120 Noted 30/08/1974 - at Doncaster2
50388 56120 Noted 08/09/75 - at Brough1
50388 56120 Noted 11/09/75 - at Brough1
50388 56120 Noted 06/10/75 - at Brough1
50388 56120 Transfer to LN - w/e 18/10/75
50388 56120 Transfer to NH - 31/01/77
50388 56120 Noted 09/04/1977 - at Preston 2
50388 56120 Transfer to BY - w/e 01/05/77
50388 56120 Noted 26/08/77 - at Bletchley3
50393 56120 Noted circa 19784
50393 56120 Noted circa 19804

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

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Diss

Unknown date

A Cravens set with E56120 closest at Diss, date unknown. With both the driver and tail lamp at this end, the DMU is probably changing platforms. Steve Davies Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Vic Berrys

Unknown date

56120 boarded up at Vic Berry's scrapyard. Date unknown, but it spent several years there before being cut. Malcolm Clements.

Class 105 DMU at Vic Berry&#039;s

17th February 1991

56120 at Vic Berry's scrapyard on the 17th February 1991. It arrived there nearly seven years earlier, on the 27/7/84! Kevin Dowd.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 3rd April 1988

M56149 (and 56120 behind) seen at Vic Berry's on the 3rd April 1988. Malcolm Clements.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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