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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-60	Depot code change	50C
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-73	Depot code change	NO
Sep-73	Depot code change	NR
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12/10/86	Withdrawn from	NC (Norwich)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:

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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