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Vehicle 51481

Class 105

BR Diagram 548

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

20/03/59 New to 61A (Kittybrewster)
Jan-62 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
May-73Depot code changeHN
w/e 01/06/74 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
Nov-81 Withdrawn

Notes

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.

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


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
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

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Haymarket depot

15th March 1981

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.

Class 105 DMU at Burntisland

4th April 1981

Set number: 105376

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.

Class 105 DMU at North Queensferry

23rd July 1981

Set number: 101376

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.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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