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: 30280
Diagram: 525
12/01/57 | New to | 53C (Hull Springhead) | |
30/11/58 | Transferred to | 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) | - (53C closed) |
Jan-60 | Depot code change | 50C | |
4w/e 09/10/65 | On loan to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
w/e 16/10/65 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
4w/e 30/05/70 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
May-71 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
Feb-72 | On loan to | 1E (Bletchley) | - 'to ease the electrical load during the power crisis' |
Feb-72 | Ex-loan back to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
Apr-73 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NO | |
Sep-73 | Depot code change | NR | |
w/e 23/04/78 | Transferred to | SF (Stratford) | |
24/03/85 | Transferred to | NC (Norwich) | |
12/10/86 | Withdrawn from | NC (Norwich) |
50366 - original number
53366 - from 21/04/83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
50366 | 56121 | As delivered to 53C - 12th January 1957 | |||||||
50366 | 56121 | Transfer to 31A - 4w/e 09/10/65 - On loan from NER | |||||||
50366 | 56376 | Noted 18/09/70 - at Peterborough1 | |||||||
50366 | 56128 | Transfer to 1E - Feb-72 - on loan from 50C | |||||||
42 | 50366 | 56137 | Noted 31/05/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56137 | Noted 07/06/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56137 | Noted 03/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56137 | Noted 21/12/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56124 | Noted 18/01/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56124 | Noted 22/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56436 | Noted 26/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56436 | Noted 01/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56436 | Noted 02/06/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | Listed at NR - 19/07/75 - plus unknown trailer | |||||||
42 | 50366 | 56443 | Noted circa 08/1975 - at Solihull with Norwich set 883 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56443 | Noted 24/10/75 - on Norwich depot2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56307 | Noted 03/03/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56119 | Noted 30/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
42 | 50366 | 56185 | Noted 25/02/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
50366 | 56133 | Noted circa 04/19834 | |||||||
53366 | 54455 | Noted circa 07/19834 | |||||||
53366 | 54143 | Transfer to NR - 24/03/85 | |||||||
53366 | 54143 | Noted 29/05/85 - at Norwich2 | |||||||
34 | 53366 | 54421 | Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85 | ||||||
34 | 53366 | 54421 | Listed at NC - Dec-85 | ||||||
34 | 53366 | 54421 | Noted 12/04/19864 | ||||||
34 | 53366 | 54421 | Listed at Norwich - Summer 1986 | ||||||
34 | 53366 | 54421 | Noted 11/07/86 | ||||||
34 | 53366 | 54421 | Noted 13/08/86 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
Two Cravens DMUs in Norwich station on 28 July 1973. Closest is set 42 (presumably 50366 + 56137) on the 11:50 to Yarmouth, set 48 is on the 11:40 to Sheringham. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Cravens unit (E50366 leading with E56122) enters Custom House station on 1st June 1979, where considerable rebuilding is in progress. The train is the 19.24 from Camden Road to North Woolwich. The Brunswick Wharf (Blackwall) power station is in the background - it was decommissioned in 1984. Tom Burnham.
Two DMU at Sheringham circa 1985, the closest being set 34, presumably 53366 + 54421, the DMBS still carrying its non-standard headlamps from its time at Stratford (it moved from Stratford to Norwich in March 1985). David Faircloth.
Arriving at Leicester is a terminating service from Market Harborough on the 13th March 1986 with 53366 at the front. Dennis Taylor.
At Norwich on 15/3/86 is Sheringham bound Set 30 on the left (E54125 closest) alongside Set 34, a relatively recent arrival at Norwich depot, but destined to be one of the final seven sets based there. Formed of E54421 & E53366, the set number is shown in the old destination indicator on the trailer which is possibly unique. Photo by Philip Mott. Gerard Fletcher.
Cravens unit E54421 and E53366 (Norwich set 34) on a Peterborough to Cambridge working passing Kiln Lane, Ely. 11.07.86. Nicholas Youngman.
Norwich allocated Cravens class 105 dmu made up of cars E54421 + E53366 is seen running along the River Yare, nearing Haddiscoe with a Norwich-Lowestoft service, 13th August 1986. Andrew J Crowther.