Vehicle 51476

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

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown

Images:

July 1979

Class 105 DMBS Sc51476 at Haymarket depot in July 1979. Alan Rintoul.

Unknown date

Set number: 377

One of the few Class 105 vehicle to appear in Blue and grey livery - SC51476 - working with two Class 101 vehicle as seen 377 passing through Princes Street Gardens, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

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Withdrawn DMU vehicles at Falkland Yard, Ayr, circa mid-1982 boarded up because of asbestos contamination and awaiting their final journey - to the scrapyard.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.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Recently withdrawn Swindon Intercity DMUs were boarded up (due to asbestos contamination) and dumped at Falkland Yard - a short distance from their former home of Ayr Depot -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 Sc51033 was withdrawn from service 3/1982.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

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.