Vehicle 51474
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: 30503
Diagram: 548
Allocations
| 21/02/59 | New to | 61A (Kittybrewster) | |
| 3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | HN | |
| w/e 01/06/74 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
| Nov-81 | Withdrawn |
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51474 | 56463 | As delivered to 61A - 21st February 1959 | |||||||
| 51474 | 56463 | Transfer to 66C - 3w/e 30/04/66 | |||||||
| 35 | 51474 | 56463 | Listed at 66C - 1972 | ||||||
| 51474 | 56463 | Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central1 | |||||||
| 11 | 51474 | 56463 | Noted 04/09/73 - on Hamilton depot2 | ||||||
| 51474 | 56480 | 51484 | Noted 31/12/75 - in Edinburgh Waverley3 | ||||||
| 51474 | 56386 | 50159 | Noted 05/09/76 - on Haymarket depot2 | ||||||
| 200 | 51248 | 56406 | 51474 | Noted 13/08/77 - on Haymarket depot2 | |||||
| 205 | 51474 | 59047 | 51480 | Noted 08/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley4 | |||||
| 202 | 51474 | 59047 | 51480 | Noted 12/07/80 - on "Forth Valley Wanderer" railtour | |||||
| 376 | 51474 | 59574 | 51481 | Listed at HA - 01/02/81 | |||||
| 202 | 51474 | 59088 | 51806 | Noted circa 03/19814 | |||||
| 51474 | 59088 | 51806 | Noted 15/03/81 - on Haymarket depot3 | ||||||
| 342 | 51474 | 59553 | 50748 | Noted 10/08/81 - in Edinburgh Waverley |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Eddie Knorn
Images:
Unknown date
Cravens DMBS Sc51474 is working in a set with two Class 101 vehicles when seen entering Princes St Gardens, from the short tunnel that separates it from Edinburgh Waverley. Circa 1978. Malcolm Clements.
circa 1980
Set number: 202
Blue / grey Cravens DMBS SC51474 as part of hybrid set 202 in Edinburgh Waverley circa 1980. The centre car is probably 59047. John Law.
12th July 1980
Set number: 202
51474 + 59047 + 51480 at Grangemouth No.3 on the 12th July 1980 with the "Forth Valley Wanderer" railtour. Hamish Stevenson.
12th July 1980
Set number: 202
51474 + 59047 + 51480 in North Berwick station on the 12th July 1980 with the "Forth Valley Wanderer" railtour. Hamish Stevenson.
12th July 1980
Class 105 Leith South 12 July 1980. The Edinburgh City Transport Welfare Association ran The Forth Valley Wanderer Railtour around freight lines Edinburgh area. The set, formed 51474 + 59047 + 51480, included a Class 101 centre car. Alistair Ness.
12th July 1980
On 12th July 1980 the “Forth Valley Wanderer” railtour visited a number of lines in Edinburgh, Grangemouth and Fife. A photo stop at the original Alloa station in the afternoon shows the unusual dmu formation a class 101 Met Camm centre car 59047 sandwiched by two of the few class 105 Cravens units to receive blue / grey livery, 51474 and 51480. Murray Liston.
5th November 1980
51474 outside Haymarket mpd, 5th November 1980. Graham Johnston.
10th August 1981
Set number: 342
Sc51474 + 59553 + 50748 Edinburgh Waverley, August 10, 1981. John Carter.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 15th February 1969
Set number: 35
A Cravens DMU comprising vehicles SC56463 + SC51474 (Hamilton set 35) is seen in Midcalder station on Saturday 15 February 1969. Where is it going? It is in the Edinburgh platform but with Glasgow on the destination blind. There is no tail lamp - or driver - at this end... Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 28th October 1979
A 105/101/105 DMU set in Haymarket depot on 28 October 1979. Closest is SC51480, a vehicle that spent its whole career in Scotland allocated to Kittybrewster, Leith Central, Hamilton and Haymarket. Within a few months it would become one of the very few 105s to carry blue and grey livery, and would be withdrawn in November 1981. The other two vehicles are presumably 59047 and 51474. Brian Daniels.
Date: 12th July 1980
Class 105 Bilston Glen Colliery Sidings 12 July 1980. The Edinburgh City Transport Welfare Association ran The Forth Valley Wanderer Railtour around freight lines Edinburgh area. The set, formed 51480 + 59047 + 51474, included a Class 101 centre car. Alistair Ness.
Date: 12th July 1980
Class 105 Granton Oil Terminal 12 July 1980. The Edinburgh City Transport Welfare Association ran The Forth Valley Wanderer Railtour around freight lines Edinburgh area. The set, formed 51480 + 59047 + 51474, included a Class 101 centre car. Alistair Ness.
Date: 12th July 1980
Class 105 Newington 12 July 1980. The Edinburgh City Transport Welfare Association ran The Forth Valley Wanderer Railtour around freight lines Edinburgh area. The set, formed 51480 + 59047 + 51474, included a Class 101 centre car. Alistair Ness.
Date: 12th July 1980
Class 105 North Berwick 12 July 1980. The Edinburgh City Transport Welfare Association ran The Forth Valley Wanderer Railtour around freight lines Edinburgh area. The set, formed 51480 + 59047 + 51474, included a Class 101 centre car. Alistair Ness.
Date: 12th July 1980
On 12th July 1980 the “Forth Valley Wanderer” railtour visited the Granton branch in Edinburgh, seen here approaching Trinity station, which was closed as far back as 1925 and remains open as a private house. The North British Railway fixed distant signal was in place here until the line here was dismantled in 1986. The DMU used was formed of two blue/grey Class 105 DMBSs and a 101 centre car, 51474 + 59047 + 51480. Murray Liston.
Date: 12th July 1980
51480 + 59047 + 51474 in North Berwick station on the 12th July 1980 with the "Forth Valley Wanderer" railtour organised by the Edinburgh City Transport Welfare Association. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: 12th July 1980
51480 + 59047 + 51474 at Fouldubs Junction, between Grangemouth and Falkirk, during a stop of the "Forth Valley Wanderer" railtour on the 12th July 1980. Hamish Stevenson.
Date: 15th March 1981
A general view of the DMU sidings at the east end of Haymarket depot on the afternoon of Sunday 15.3.81. Notice the mixture of classes (122, 101 and 105) present. From the left and from front to rear, the following are visible : 55000/59074/50160, 51476/59072/..., 51473, 51806/59088/51474. Also to notice is how, from around late 1978 onwards, once the decision had been made to ditch plain blue on multiple units with any sort of life expectancy, St Rollox just went ahead and painted everything in blue/grey, including classes 104 and 105. On the Eastern and Midland these tended to remain in plain blue on the whole because of their short life expectancy. Leonard Rogers.
Date: circa 1982
Set number: 126403
Recently withdrawn Swindon Intercity DMUs were boarded up (due to asbestos contamination) and dumped at Falkland Yard - a short distance from their former home of Ayr Depot - prior to transport to Meyer Newman (Snailwell) for scrapping. Sc51033 was withdrawn from service 3/1982. The Swindon Diesel Preservation Society received permission to remove parts from these units for the preserved Class 126 unit as long as we did not enter the vehicles or remove parts that would affect braking. Behind are two Cravens cars, 51476 and 51474, then Class 126 centre car 59394. Andrew McConnell.
Date: circa 1982
Withdrawn DMU vehicles at Falkland Yard, Ayr, circa mid-1982 boarded up because of asbestos contamination and awaiting their final journey - to the scrapyard. On the left is Class 126 51033, to its right Class 105 51476 and partially seen is another blue grey Class 105 DMBS 51474. John Horne.
Date: circa 1982
Class 105 DMBS 51474 (and 51476 partially seen) and Class 126 centre car 59394 await movement to Snailwell for disposal at Falkland Yard, Ayr, circa mid-1982. John Horne.