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Vehicle 56130 / 54130

Class 105

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30283
Diagram: 526

Allocations

11/03/57	New to	53C (Hull Springhead)
30/11/58	Transferred to	53B (Hull Botanic Gardens)	- (53C closed)
Jan-60	Depot code change	50C
May-73	Depot code change	BG
2w/e 01/05/77	Transferred to	GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
2w/e 17/12/78	Transferred to	NR (Norwich)
Dec-83	Depot code change	NC
20/05/84	Withdrawn from	NC (Norwich)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56130 - original number
54130 - from May-84 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50375	56130	As delivered to 53C - 11th March 1957
	50381	56130	Noted 29/08/70 - at Brough¹
	51229	56130	Noted 05/08/1974 - at Sheffield ²
	50370	56130	Noted 05/01/75 - on Botanic Gardens depot³
	51236	56130	Noted 12/09/75 - at Brough¹
	51236	56130	Noted 08/10/75 - at Brough¹
	51236	56130	Noted 01/11/75 - at Brough¹
	50385	56130	Noted 17/01/76 - at Brough¹
	50381	56130	Noted 11/02/76 - at Brough¹
	50381	56130	Noted 10/04/76 - at Brough¹
	50382	56130	Transfer to NR - 2w/e 17/12/78
	50382	56130	Noted 02/04/79 - at Norwich³
	50382	56130	Noted 25/08/1979 - on 14:00 Norwich to Lowestoft service with 50377 & 56434²
	51124	56130	Noted 23/02/80 - on 08.50 Norwich – Yarmouth⁴
	51260	56130	Noted 28th August 1982
72	53379	54130	Noted circa 03/1984⁵

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Phil Shatford
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

5th April 1981

A Cravens two-car Class 105 DMU formed of cars E56130 & E51255 was stood at a forlorn looking Sudbury, awaiting the 11 mile return trip to Marks Tey situated the Great Eastern main line on an overcast Sunday 5th April 1981. The rusty rails in the foreground lead to the stop block at the end of the branch. Until 1967, Sudbury was a through station on a cross-country route to Cambridge. Martyn Hilbert.

Unknown date

Set number: 66

Norwich Cravens set 66 with a Class 101 at Scunthorpe, date unknown. DTCL E56130 is closest. Paul Redmond.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 27th April 1980

Set number: 36

With Victorian looking buildings either side, Cravens two-car Class 105 formed of cars E50382 & E56130 was stood at Norwich TMD on April 27th 1980. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 29th March 1981

On a overcast Spring Sunday afternoon in the market town of Sudbury in Suffolk, the run-down looking station was seeing some activity with the arrival of a Cravens Class 105 Two-Car DMU formed of cars E51255 & E56130 with the branch service along the Stour Valley route from Marks Tey on the Great Eastern main line from Liverpool St to Norwich on March 29th 1981. Since 1967 Sudbury has been the end-of-the-line, the station once being on a through route to Shelford and Cambridge. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 5th April 1981

A Cravens Class 105 two-car DMU formed of cars E51255 & E56130 had arrived at the market town of Sudbury, with a service from Colchester & Marks Tey on an overcast Sunday April 5th 1981. Much disused and abandoned infrastructure is visible in this scene, a legacy from the days when prior to 1967, Sudbury was a through station on a route to Cambridge. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 29th July 1981

Set number: 58

E51255 + E56130 / E51268 + E56131 with the 1645 ex-Norwich at Peterborough on 27/7/81. John Carter.

Date: 31st December 1982

Set number: 31

The 2-car class 105 'Cravens' DMU sets were synonymous with East Anglia in the BR era as Norwich Thorpe depot had a large allocation. This scene on December 31, 1982 depicts an afternoon gathering of the class at Ipswich where five Norwich sets are captured line a breast but only four were placed conveniently side by side. Set 61 in the platform with people boarding was working 2R22 the 12.52 via the East Suffolk line to Lowestoft. The line up left to right comprises; set 31. 53375+54468, set 52. 51299+54429, set 66. 51260+54130, set 61. 51290+54462, and 51478 on the very left. Adrian Nicholls.

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