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Vehicle 51274

Class 105

BR Diagram 532

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

09/09/58 New to 31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 30/05/70 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
w/e 06/02/77 Transferred to GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
20/07/81 Withdrawn from HT (Heaton)

Notes

Nov-74 - 51274 transfer to FP published then cancelled, 51279 sent instead.
23/10/81 - withdrawn vehicles noted on Norwich depot with parts removed: 50382, 50383 (damaged), 51254, 51274 and 51482 (before official withdrawal)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51274 56432 As delivered to 31A - 9th September 1958
51274 56432 Noted 1965
51274 56432 Noted 18/08/69 - at Peterborough1
51274 56054 Noted 18/09/70 - at Cambridge1
51274 56365 Noted 21/12/70 - at Norwich1
51274 56100 Noted 23/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56143 Noted circa e1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56121 Noted circa late 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56303 Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51274 56303 Noted 03/03/73 - on Stratford depot2
54 51274 56441 Noted 05/10/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56441 Noted 26/10/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56454 Noted 09/02/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56454 Noted 09/03/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56454 Noted 20/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56454 Noted 24/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56454 Noted 01/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51274 56454 Noted 01/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56128 Noted 16/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56128 Noted 27/03/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56128 Noted 02/04/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56401 Noted 05/07/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56401 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
54 51274 56401 Noted 02/08/1975 - at Birmingham New Street 3
54 51274 56126 Noted 10/07/76 - on Norwich depot2
51274 56459 Noted 02/03/77
51274 56084 Noted 22/01/78
51274 56084 Noted 15/04/1978 - at Newcastle 3
51274 56119 Noted 30/05/81
51274 56474 Noted 02/07/81 - on Norwich depot2

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Manors

22nd January 1978

E51274 and E56084 seen at Manors on 22 January 1978. Ian Francis.

Class 105 DMU at Newcastel

31st January 1981

E51274, E50209, E51441 and E50210 form a nice DMU line-up at Newcastle on January 31, 1981. John Carter.

Class 105 DMU at Jarrow

30th May 1981

Cars E51274 E56119 are seen departing Jarrow with a Newcastle - South Shields service on 30/5/81, the final day of British Rail services on the South Tyneside branch, prior to conversion to Tyneside Metro operation. Graeme Phillips Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 15th July 1972

Class 03 D2006 (with a conflat L to avoid getting lost on the cross over track circuits) shunts Cravens DMBS E51274 at Cambridge Mill Road on 15 July 1972. The ex-works Finsbury Park allocated vehicle had arrived in a train of coaching stock hauled by Brush 2 5664 with an LNER TPO at the front. Nicholas T Smith.

DMU

Date: 2nd March 1977

E56459 and E51274 at Pelaw on the 2nd March 1977. Ian Francis.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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