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Vehicle 51271

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

08/08/58	New 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 16/10/77	Transferred to	NR (Norwich)
Dec-83	Depot code change	NC
01/06/86	Transferred to	LN (Lincoln)
28/09/86	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51271	56429	As delivered to 31A - 8th August 1958
	51271	56115	Noted 31/12/1971 - at Kings Cross¹
	51271	56412	Noted 23/06/1973 - at Kings Cross¹
	51271	56429	Noted 15/06/74 - in Kings Cross²
	51271	56429	Noted 16/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	51271	56461	Noted 06/08/1974¹
	51271	56420	Noted 07/05/75 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	51271	56420	Noted 08/06/75 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	51271	56420	Noted 23/08/75 - in Kings Cross³
	51271	56139	Noted 29/11/75 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	51271	56432	Noted 20/03/76 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	51271	56459	Noted 11/07/76 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	51271	56417	Noted 10/08/76 - on 0724 Kings Cross-Royston
	51271	56131	Noted 20/01/77 - on Cambridge depot³
	51271	56131	Noted 27/01/77 - on Cambridge depot³
	51271	56131	Noted 24/02/77 - on Cambridge depot³
	51271		Noted 17/03/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle³
49	51271	56468	Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
49	51271	56436	Noted 22/02/79 - at Norwich³
49	51271	56185	Noted 15/07/79
	51271	56125	Noted 06/09/1980 - Fakenham & Dereham Railway Society GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour 51256-56116 + 51271-56125
49	51271	56125	Noted 09/09/81
	51271	56470	Noted circa 08/1982⁴
49	51271	54139	Noted circa 03/1984⁴
49	51271	54463	Noted circa 04/1985⁴
46	51271	54133	Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
49	51271	54463	Listed at NC - Dec-85
49	51271	54463	Noted 18/01/1986 - at Colchester⁵
49	51271	54463	Noted 12/04/1986⁴
	51271	54133	Noted 28/06/86
	51271	54133	Noted 28th June 1986
	51271	54133	Noted circa 08/1986⁴

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton

Images:

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.

23rd July 1981

Norwich Thorpe before the wires and an impressive array of motive power and rolling stock in the scene including 47584, 03397, a BTH type 1 train heating unit and Cravens DMUs (including E51271). 23rd July 1981. Gordon Edgar.

9th September 1981

Set number: 49

Ipswich and Cravens Class 105 E51271 + E56125 forming Norwich set no. 49. The train is the 06.58 Leicester to Harwich Parkeston Quay which I'd travelled on from March on 9/9/81. Later in the day this unit was seen forming the 14.50 Ipswich to Stamford service. Some late 70s fashion still in evidence here, even if it is 1981. Gerard Fletcher.

28th July 1984

E51271 at the Doncaster Works open day, 28th July 1984. PJ Evans.

28th July 1984

51271, a Class 105 DMBS, is seen at Doncaster works open day on July 28th, 1984 in all over blue livery. Andy Cole.

21st February 1986

Set number: 49

Cravens DMU set 49 with E51271 closest in Kings Lynn station waiting to depart on a service to Ely on 21 February 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.

16th August 1986

On Saturday August 16th 1986 Lincoln's 54133+51271 were working services out of Manchester Victoria. Here they stand at Wigan Wallgate with a Manchester Victoria-Southport via Atherton service. Ian Hazlehurst.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 15th December 1979

E51271 leaves a trail of smoke behind it as it leads it's trailer out of Sudbury on the 15th December 1979. David Underwood.

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: 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.

Date: 7th July 1981

Set number: 49

The 12:29 to Norwich awaiting departure from Lowestoft station on 7 July 1981. It is formed of 56125 + 51271 (set 49) and 56188 + 51270. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 8th February 1986

Set number: 49

Cravens Class 105 DMU set 49 (54463 + 51271) waits to depart Norwich for Great Yarmouth, possibly 8-2-86. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

Date: 15th March 1986

Set number: 49

Even in 1986 some of the cross country services from Cambridge to Birmingham were still formed of classic dmus. On March 15 1M66, the 08.52 ex Cambridge, is seen here arriving at Whittlesea with a four car formation of Cravens set 49 (E54463 + E51271) leading a 2 car Metro-Cammell Class 101. Naturally we chose to sit in the leading set for maximum good vibrations! Photo by Philip Mott. Gerard Fletcher.

Date: 15th March 1986

Set number: 49

At Peterborough set 49 makes a healthy exhaust as it departs for Birmingham - you can almost hear that great Cravens cacophany. Taken on March 15th, 1986, by the end of July 1986, the number of Cravens sets in service at Norwich had reduced to just seven, the set seen here E51271 + E54463 along with six other sets went to Lincoln for a brief reprieve. Photo by Philip Mott. Gerard Fletcher.

Date: 30th March 1986

Set number: 49

Cravens DMU set 49, E54463 and presumably E51271, is seen with a Yarmouth service in at Trowse station on 30 March 1986. Trowse was closed in 1939 but re-opened in March 1986 as the line's northern terminus when Norwich station was closed for electrification works. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 28th June 1986

A Cravens set at Southport on the 28th June 1986 formed of 54133 and 51271. Jerry Glover.

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