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
20/03/59 | New to | 61A (Kittybrewster) | |
Jan-62 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | HN | |
w/e 01/06/74 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
Nov-81 | Withdrawn |
15/04/63 - Sc51481 and Sc56470 were one of the many sets operating a Six Lochs Land Cruise on Monday 15/4/63.
28th April 1981 - Seen carrying unit no. 105 376.
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
51481 | 56470 | As delivered to 61A - 20th March 1959 | |||||||
51481 | 56470 | Transfer to 66C - Jan-62 | |||||||
51481 | 56470 | Noted 15/04/63 | |||||||
51481 | 56470 | Noted 11/09/71 - on Hamilton depot1 | |||||||
42 | 51481 | 56470 | Listed at 66C - 1972 | ||||||
51481 | 56470 | Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central2 | |||||||
220 | 51481 | Noted 26/08/74 - on HA depot, partner(s) unknown3 | |||||||
51481 | 56406 | Noted 30/12/75 - in Edinburgh Waverley1 | |||||||
51481 | 56478 | Noted 04/04/1976 - at Edinburgh Haymarket4 | |||||||
51481 | 56480 | Noted 05/09/76 - on Haymarket depot3 | |||||||
51481 | Noted 13/08/77 - on Haymarket depot, loose vehicle3 | ||||||||
206 | 51481 | 59071 | 50159 | Noted 08/08/1978 - at Edinburgh Waverley5 | |||||
51461 | 59047 | 51481 | Noted 07/04/80 - on 07.50 Edinburgh – Stirling6 | ||||||
376 | 51474 | 59574 | 51481 | Listed at HA - 01/02/81 | |||||
51477 | 59567 | 51481 | Noted 15/03/81 - on Haymarket depot, power cars blue/grey centre car plain blue | ||||||
51477 | 59567 | 51481 | Noted 15/03/81 - on Haymarket depot1 | ||||||
51479 | 51480 | 51481 | Noted 7th November 1981 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Phil Shatford
At the west end of Haymarket depot on 15.3.81 sit two hybrid class 105 triples. On the left, freshly-outshopped from St Rollox in blue/grey and complete with ScR six-figure unit number (105 37x), is 51481/59567(cl.101)/51477, while further back, apparently on loan from Newton Heath, is 50782/59159(cl.104)/50789. See the comments in the caption to the photo of 55000 and others from the same occasion about the ScR's application of blue/grey to 105's. Notice too how the home-based unit contains two DMBS's : this was a result of the Region's policy in the 1970's of standardising on triples. Driving trailers from former two-car units of classes 101 and 105 were swapped with the Eastern Region for class 101 centre trailers and DMC's. However, this left the ScR with an excess of class 105 DMBS's which had to double up in triples for a while. Leonard Rogers.
2L32 09.25 Edinburgh to Dundee formed of a hybrid 3 car unit led by class 105 DMBS Sc51481 approaches Burntisland on 4th April 1981. Bruce Galloway.
In blue/grey livery, Cravens Class 105 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) SC51481, was passing through North Queensferry with a six-car mixed rake of DMU cars, bound for Edinburgh on July 23rd 1981. The Cravens is formed into Haymarket set 105376, the other vehicles being Metro-Cammell Class 101 cars. Presumably, the Cravens had been finished in blue/grey to match the rest of the three-car set. SC51481 spent its entire working life in Scotland, it was one of a batch of twenty-two x 2 car Power/Trailer sets supplied new in 1959. It would eventually be withdrawn from service in November 1981 and was scrapped by Mayer Newman at Snailwell, Cambridgeshire in 1982. Martyn Hilbert.