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Set 63


These formations have been noted:

51284 56442 Noted circa late 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56114 Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56317 Noted 23/06/73 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56126 Noted 11/08/73 - at Norwich1
51284 56126 Noted 13/10/73 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56126 Noted 16/02/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56126 Noted 02/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56126 Noted 26/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56126 Noted 01/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56140 Noted 26/04/75 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56366 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
51490 56463 Noted 11/12/75 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51284 56128 Noted 10/07/76 - on Norwich depot1
51284 56128 Noted 24/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51268 56435 Noted 06/08/78 - at Norwich1
51268 56435 Noted 13/08/78 - on Norwich depot1
51268 56435 Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
51268 56435 Noted 08/01/79 - at Norwich1
51268 54422 Noted circa 05/19842
51268 54422 Noted 22/12/84
51268 54422 Noted circa 04/19852
51268 54422 Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
51268 54422 Listed at NC - Dec-85
51268 54422 Noted circa 01/19862
51268 54422 Listed at Norwich - May 1986
51268 54422 Noted 14/06/86 - at Norwich1
51268 54422 Noted 26/06/1986 - at Chettisham on 12.05 Cambridge to Peterborough.3
51428 54218 Formation change - Norwich - circa Nov-86
51428 54218 Noted 11/12/86 - at Norwich1
51428 54218 Listed at NC - Apr-87
51428 54218 Noted 20/06/19872
51428 54218 Listed at NC - Dec-87
51428 54218 Noted circa 09/19882
51428 54218 Listed at NC - Feb-90
51180 54061 Noted circa 09/19912
51180 54061 Listed at CA - Dec-91

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Nicholas Youngman

Class 105 DMU at Lowestoft

circa 1971

Cravens set number 63 sits in Lowestoft station circa 1971. John Law.

Class 105 DMU at Sheringham

April 1976

Cravens DMU set 63 in Sheringham station in April 1976 after arriving on a service from Norwich (Thorpe) via Cromer. The closest vehicle is presumably E51284. Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 105 DMU at Ipswich

5th March 1980

Wednesday would usually be my day off from work around the time this photograph was taken, so quite often I would buy an Anglia Day Ranger ticket and do a circular tour from March or King's Lynn. This was the case on 5/3/80 when this was the scene alongside Ipswich station at 11.25 that morning. Set 63 with Felixstowe on the blinds comprised E56432 with power car E51268 at the rear. The most interesting aspect of this shot though, are the two dmu cars in the background. Set 70 has obviously had some incident befall it, as Gloucester RCW Class 100 power car E51127 has been separated from its partner Cravens Class 105 trailer E56134. Some of the Gloucester RCW units had charmed lives and E51127 had already survived being withdrawn in 1972 and stored in 1974 on its native Scottish Region, before being sent down to Norwich in May 1975. It lasted here until October 1980 when it was dispatched to the LMR ending up at Tyseley and finally Newton Heath from where it was retired in Dec. 82. Gerard Fletcher.

Class 105 DMU at Norwich

29th July 1981

E56131 + E51268 at Norwich with the 16:45 to Peterborough, 29/7/81. John Carter.

Class 105 DMU at Thetford

May 1984

Class 105 DMU set 63 (presumably 54422 + 51268) with an Ely service at Thetford in May 1984. Bill Fraser.

Class 105 DMU at West Runton

4th August 1984

Two twin car Norwich allocated Cravens class 105 dmu's both still with their 1st Class accommodation, pull out of West Runton after calling with a Norwich - Sheringham service on 4th August 1984. Closest is probably 51268. Andrew J Crowther.

Class 105 DMU at Cambridge

19th October 1985

On a journey from Leamington Spa to Ely on 19 October 1985 we stopped at Cambridge where I photographed all-blue class 105 DMU, 51268 + 54422, receding from the camera probably making a shunt move between platforms at the station. Peter Tandy.

Class 101 DMU at Peterborough

24th February 1987

Class 101 set 63 is seen in BR blue and grey livery at Peterborough on 24.02.1987 with 51428 closest. Andy Cole.

Class 101 DMU at Colchester

24th January 1988

E51428 at Colchester (at 15:45) on Sunday 24th January 1988. Colin Brooks.

Class 101 DMU at Colchester

24th January 1988

Norwich set 63 at Colchester (at 15:30) on Sunday 24th January 1988. The DMBS is 51428, closest is presumably 54218. Colin Brooks.

Class 101 DMU at Ipswich

15th April 1988

Parked up in the sidings adjacent to Ipswich Station on 15th April 1988 is a Class 101 formed of 54218 + 51428. AndrewHA.

Class 101 DMU at Norwich Station

31st July 1988

Class 101 DMBS E51428 and DTCL E54218 are stabled in Norwich Station on the 31st July 1988. Locally based at Norwich Crown Point TMD they form Set No. NC63. DTCL E54218 would be an early withdrawal victim in March 1992 while the DMBS vehicle E51428 would go on to complete nearly 42 years active service prior to withdrawl during September 2001. Bob Woolnough.

Class 101 DMU at Ely

21st May 1989

Set 63 E54218 + E51428 and Set 72 E51201 + E54347 seen on a Norwich to Cambridge working north of Ely around 4pm on 21st May 1989. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 101 DMU at Halvergate Marsh

4th July 1989

By 1989, the Metro-Cammell twin units had ousted the Cravens type at Norwich and here set 63 is now formed of E51428 and (I think) the anagrammatical E54218 on July 4, 1989. The location is an abandoned platelayers hut at Halvergate Marsh to get this rather nice portrait of a train from Yarmouth. Copyright Chris Burton. Gerard Fletcher.

Class 101 DMU at Acle

28th July 1990

Class 101 Set 63 on a Great Yarmouth - Norwich service about to pass 37 219 on the 0800 Liverpool Lime St - Great Yarmouth at Acle on Saturday 28th July 1990. Colin Brooks.


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