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
06/06/58 | 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 | |
2w/e 01/05/77 | Transferred to | NR (Norwich) | |
25/07/82 | Withdrawn from | NR (Norwich) |
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
51256 | 56414 | As delivered to 40A - 6th June 1958 | |||||||
51256 | 56414 | Transfer to 31A - 4w/e 24/01/59 | |||||||
51256 | 56447 | Noted 17/06/72 - at Ipswich1 | |||||||
51256 | 56427 | Noted 30/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51256 | 56427 | Noted 17/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51256 | 56427 | Noted 17/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51256 | 56427 | Noted 01/06/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51256 | 56427 | Noted 05/07/1975 - at Nottingham3 | |||||||
51256 | 56424 | Noted 27/03/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51256 | 56424 | Noted 30/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51256 | 56424 | Noted 06/06/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51256 | 56432 | Noted 27/11/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51256 | 59361 | 50906 | Noted 20/01/77 - on Cambridge depot2 | ||||||
56 | 51256 | 56462 | Noted 25/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
56 | 51256 | 56439 | Noted 03/09/77 | ||||||
56 | 51256 | 56187 | Noted 11/03/78 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
56 | 51256 | 56116 | Noted 03/08/78 - at Norwich2 | ||||||
56 | 51256 | 56116 | Listed at NR - Autumn 1978 | ||||||
56 | 51256 | 56116 | Noted 06/09/1980 - Fakenham & Dereham Railway Society GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour 56116 + 51256 with 56125 + 51271 | ||||||
56 | 51256 | 56134 | Noted 29/12/80 - at Bury St Edmunds2 |
Formation Sources
1: Ipswich Transport Society
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
Cravens Local Passenger (Class 105) 2-car dmu in Rail Blue livery with all-yellow front ends passing Potters Bar on a Welwyn Garden City - Kings Cross service, 06/76. The DMBS appears to be E51256. Hugh Llewelyn.
Cravens Class 105 DMU set 56 with E51256 closest (and presumably with E56134) at Worksop, date unknown. Paul Redmond.
A pair of Cravens Local Passenger (later Class 105) 2-car dmu's Nos. E56131 (141), E51257 (105/2) in Rail Blue livery with all-yellow front end and Nos.E51256 (105/2), E56424 (141) in green livery with small yellow warning panel arriving at Kings Cross from Hatfield on a service for which the class was not designed - intensive suburban passenger, 07/67. Hugh Llewelyn.
On 6 September 1980, the Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour ran with a pair Cravens dmu sets. Nearest the camera at March is 56116, then should come 51256, 56125 and 51271. Having visited Wisbech, the tour then ran to Sleaford, Bardney, Shirebrook and Lincoln before returning to March. Jeremy Chapter.
Bardney station in Lincolnshire was only open for occasional sugar beet traffic by 1980. On 6 September of that year, the Fakenham & Dereham Railway Society ran a railtour which visited the branch. Another railtour in February 1981 was the last passenger train to reach this point where passenger trains had been withdrawn in 1970. Car 51271 is nearest the camera, paired with 56125, behind is 51256 and 56116. Jeremy Chapter.
On 6 September 1980 the Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society ran their "GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour" using a pair of Class 105 Cravens-built two-car diesel units, seen here at Wisbech Goods. The full formation as 56116 + 51256 + 56125 + 51271. Jeremy Chapter.