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Vehicle 51256

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

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25/07/82	Withdrawn from	NR (Norwich)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	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
	51256	56134		Noted 26/09/81 - on 15.37 Peterborough - Cambridge⁴

Formation Sources
1: Ipswich Transport Society
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Phil Shatford

Images:

June 1976

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.

Unknown date

Set number: 56

Cravens Class 105 DMU set 56 with E51256 closest (and presumably with E56134) at Worksop, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: July 1967

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.

Date: 6th September 1980

Set number: 56

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.

Date: 6th September 1980

Set number: 49

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.

Date: 6th September 1980

Set number: 56

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.

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