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Vehicle 56185

Class 104

Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30405
Diagram: 581

Allocations

15/05/58	New to	50A (York)
2w/e 31/05/58	Transferred to	56G (Hammerton Street)
3w/e 30/08/58	Transferred to	51A (Darlington)
w/e 03/01/59	Transferred to	50A (York)
3w/e 19/03/60	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)
w/e 04/03/67	Transferred to	52J (South Gosforth)
3w/e 31/10/70	Transferred to	50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73	Depot code change	BG
w/e 18/10/75	Transferred to	NR (Norwich)
31/05/81	Withdrawn from	NR (Norwich)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50594	56185	As delivered to 50A - 15th May 1958
	50594	56185	Transfer to 56G - 2w/e 31/05/58
	50594	56185	Transfer to 51A - 3w/e 30/08/58
	50594	56185	Transfer to 55H - 3w/e 19/03/60
	50595	56185	Noted 12/08/1971 - at York¹
	50594	56185	Noted 26/08/74 - at York²
H10	50594	56185	Noted 02/01/75 - at Selby, set number on 50594²
	51225	56185	Noted 10/09/75 - at Brough³
	51225	56185	Noted 11/09/75 - at Brough³
	50594	56185	Noted 24/10/75 - at Norwich²
H10	50594	56185	Noted 01/11/75 - at Bury St Edmunds, 56185 had set number H11²
	50594	56185	Noted Jun-76 - at Sheffield³
	50378	56185	Noted 02/10/76 - at Bury St Edmunds²
42	50366	56185	Noted 25/02/77 - at Bury St Edmunds²
55	51265	56185	Noted 24/05/78 - on Norwich depot²
55	51265	56185	Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
49	51271	56185	Noted 15/07/79
	50594	56185	Noted 24/05/80 - at Norwich²
	51293	56185	Noted 11/05/1981 - at Cambridge with 09:50 to Ipswich⁴

Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Peter Wallwork

Images:

2nd May 1959

E50594 was recorded for this image - a DMBS, the vehicle closest is presumably its partner for the first few years E56185. They are see stabled at Selby on 2nd May 1959. To the right of the marker light it has text painted on which should read "YK Set". Keith Long.

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