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Class 112/3 Cravens 2-car DMUs


Non-Passenger Use

No vehicles entered departmental service but three mechanical vehicles were resold by the scrapyards for further use.

The Bird Group sold DMBSs 51691/2 to BSC Shotton where they became part of the P/W train until circa 1982.

The bodyshell of DMCL 51729 would be resold by A.King and the rear half would end up as a store on an offshore gas platform. This was located on the Hewett Gas Field, 25 miles east of Great Yarmouth, where it sat on the unmanned platform 52/5A where the white box is on the front left of the linked image.

The front half of the bodyshell would find use as a paint store in the yard of a warehouse adjacent to the disused Great Yarmouth South Town station. It was painted grey, although chipped paint revealed that this car had once been blue.

51729  Paint Store

It still remained there in 1981, now painted black.

No vehicles were preserved.

Thanks to Andrew Dyson for additional information.