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Vehicle 50371

Class 105

BR Diagram 525

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

18/02/57 New to 53C (Hull Springhead)
30/11/58 Transferred to 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) - (53C closed)
Jan-60Depot code change50C
Feb-72 On loan to 9A (Longsight) - 'to ease the electrical load during the power crisis'
Feb-72 Ex-loan back to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
Nov-72 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
11/09/83 Withdrawn from NR (Norwich)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50371 56126 As delivered to 53C - 18th February 1957
50371 56135 Noted 15/08/19701
50371 56394 Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster2
50371 56128 Transfer to 32A - Nov-72
31 50371 56128 Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds3
31 50371 56123 Noted 30/06/73 - at Ipswich4
31 50371 56123 Noted 25/08/73 - at Stowmarket3
31 50371 56123 Noted 02/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds3
31 50371 56119 Noted 02/04/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
50371 56119 Noted 04/04/1974 - at Birmingham New Street 1
31 50371 56119 Noted 03/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
31 50371 56119 Noted 23/10/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
31 50371 56119 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
31 50371 56366 Noted 26/09/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
31 50371 56134 Noted 20/10/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
31 50371 56467 Noted 18/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds3
31 50371 Listed at NR - Autumn 1978 - with spare
50371 56139 Noted 17/01/79 - at Norwich3
50371 56140 Noted 22/02/80 - on 18:26 Harwick Town - Leicester
50371 56469 Noted 24/05/80 - at Norwich3
50371 56419 Noted 17/10/1981 - Bitton Railway Company Ltd The Bitton East Anglian Railtour 56419+50371+56119+51478
50371 56419 Noted 08/05/1982 - Observed at Spalding, train worked unclear

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Ipswich Transport Society

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Diss

circa early / mid-1970s

Set number: 31

Three 2-car Class 105s heading away from the camera towards Norwich at Diss on the Ipswich to Norwich line. Date unknown, but between the introduction of set numbers at Norwich in 1971 and the end of the use of headcodes in 1976. Closest is almost certainly the regular DMBS in set 31 at the time, E50371. The image was originally part of the Steve Davies Collection. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Cambridge

5th April 1979

Set number: 32

A pair of 105s, DMBS E50371 to the right, in the northern bay platforms at Cambridge on 5 April 1979. Note the slightly unusual vent on the front of set 75. Kevin Lane.

Class 105 DMU at North Walsham

13th July 1979

Set number: 32

Cravens Class 105 DMU set 32 arrives into North Walsham on 13 July 1979. The closest vehicle is believed to be E50371. Robert Forsythe.

Class 105 DMU at Ipswich

29th January 1983

Set number: 32

50371 with 56419 arriving at Ipswich. Phil Bidwell.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 10th March 1979

Set number: 32

During the morning of 10th March 1979 a Cravens class 105 unit No.E56139-E50371 eases into March station forming a Peterborough to Cambridge service. How the railway has changed when you look at the platform; Nestle chocolate vending machines, a porter's trolley, even a porter coming out of his office, not to mention flares and long hair. I wonder if that DMU was a 'cop' for the young enthusiast? The favourite vantage point, the road overbridge for looking into Whitemoor Yard, can be seen between the station chimneys. There is also some spoil offloading activity from rail wagons going on adjacent to the GN&GE Joint line platform. Happy days! Gordon Edgar.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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