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Vehicle 51255

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: 30469
Diagram: 532

Allocations

31/05/58	New to	40A (Lincoln)
4w/e 24/01/59	Transferred to	31A (Cambridge)
3w/e 04/07/59	Transferred to	34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60	Transferred to	34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73	Depot code change	FP
w/e 13/02/77	Transferred to	NR (Norwich)
Dec-83	Depot code change	NC
07/10/84	Withdrawn from	NC (Norwich)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51255	56413	As delivered to 40A - 31st May 1958
	51255	56413	Transfer to 31A - 4w/e 24/01/59
	51255	56436	Noted 25/08/69 - at Finsbury Park¹
	51255	56424	Noted 30/05/70 - at Kings Cross¹
	51255	56131	Noted 18/09/70 - at Cambridge¹
N162	51255	56057	Noted 07/01/75 - at York, set number only on 56057²
	51255	56451	Noted 27/01/77 - on Cambridge depot²
	51255	56451	Noted 15/02/77 - at Bury St Edmunds²
58	51255	56451	Noted 25/04/77 - at Bury St Edmunds²
55	51255	56451	Noted 18/02/78 - at Bury St Edmunds²
	51255	56439	Noted 20/03/78 - at Bury St Edmunds being hauled by 31325²
58	51255	56439	Noted 03/08/78 - on Norwich depot²
58	51255	56439	Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
	51255	56439	Noted 10/01/79 - at Norwich²
58	51255	56439	Noted 08/04/79 - on Norwich depot²
	51255	56429	Noted circa 04/1982³
58	51255	56429	Noted 28/10/82
58	51255	56429	Noted 24/08/1983³
58	51255	54429	Noted circa 01/1984³
58	51255	54429	Noted 10/04/84 - at Norwich²

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn

Images:

11th April 1979

Set number: 58

Class 105 at Felixtowe Town on 11 April 1979. E51255 at the end of the line. Alistair Ness.

29th March 1981

On a overcast Spring Sunday afternoon in the market town of Sudbury in Suffolk, the run-down looking station was seeing some activity with the arrival of a Cravens Class 105 Two-Car DMU formed of cars E51255 & E56130 with the branch service along the Stour Valley route from Marks Tey on the Great Eastern main line from Liverpool St to Norwich on March 29th 1981. Since 1967 Sudbury has been the end-of-the-line, the station once being on a through route to Shelford and Cambridge. Martyn Hilbert.

5th April 1981

A Cravens Class 105 two-car DMU formed of cars E51255 & E56130 had arrived at the market town of Sudbury, with a service from Colchester & Marks Tey on an overcast Sunday April 5th 1981. Much disused and abandoned infrastructure is visible in this scene, a legacy from the days when prior to 1967, Sudbury was a through station on a route to Cambridge. Martyn Hilbert.

21st April 1981

Set number: 58

51255 at Felixstowe, 21st August 1981. Chris Lings.

29th July 1981

Set number: 58

E51255 + E56130 / E51268 + E56131 with the 1645 ex-Norwich at Peterborough on 27/7/81. John Carter.

28th October 1982

Set number: 58

On a very bright Thursday October 28th 1982, the 11.47 Peterborough - Cambridge service pauses at Whittlesea with (left to right) Cravens Class 105 sets 58 (E51255/E56429) and 47 (E56135/E51295). Gerard Fletcher.

23rd June 1984

Class 105 DMBS 51255 is one half of a set seen passing Saltley on it's way to Norwich, 23.06.1984. Andy Cole.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: July 1966

A pair of Cravens Local Passenger (later Class 105) 2-car dmu's E56424 (141) with E51255 (105/2) and E56457 (141) with E51264 (105/2) departing Kings Cross to Hatfield on a service for which the class was not designed - intensive suburban passenger, July 1966. Hugh Llewelyn.

Date: 5th March 1980

Set number: 77

A scene during the tenure of BRCW Class 104 dmus at Norwich. The first BRCW sets arrived from Neville Hill in October 1975 and some were in poor condition compared with the Metro-Cammell sets which they replaced. At their most prolific, there were 9 x 3 car sets and 5 twin units. Eventually refurbished Metro Cammell sets replaced them from 1980 onwards, the last BRCW cars soldiering on until 1982. The twin sets were often hybrids paired with Cravens Class 105 cars. On 5th March 1980, Set 55 led by BRCW car E56189 and paired with Cravens power car E51255 is ready to depart with the 12.45 to Yarmouth. This unit continued in the diagram operating the 13.50 Yarmouth - Norwich, 14.33 Norwich - Ely, 17.24 Ely - Cambridge and 17.51 Cambridge - Stamford. On the right are BRCW set 77 E56188 + E50594 and behind it set 79 comprising cars E50597 + E56187. Gerard Fletcher.

Date: 5th April 1981

A Cravens two-car Class 105 DMU formed of cars E56130 & E51255 was stood at a forlorn looking Sudbury, awaiting the 11 mile return trip to Marks Tey situated the Great Eastern main line on an overcast Sunday 5th April 1981. The rusty rails in the foreground lead to the stop block at the end of the branch. Until 1967, Sudbury was a through station on a cross-country route to Cambridge. Martyn Hilbert.

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