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Vehicle 56422 / 54422

Class 105

BR Diagram 533

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30470
Diagram: 533

Allocations

17/07/58 New to 31A (Cambridge)
3w/e 04/07/59 Transferred to 34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73Depot code changeFP
w/e 03/04/77 Transferred to GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
w/e 22/06/80 Transferred to LN (Lincoln)
20/07/81 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
Dec-83Depot code changeNC
Jun-86 Stored
22/06/86 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
28/09/86 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)

Notes

8th August 1986 - Seen stored in Falkland Yard

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56422 - original number
54422 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51264 56422 As delivered to 31A - 17th July 1958
51299 56422 Noted 31/12/1971 - at Kings Cross1
51261 56422 Noted 02/09/72 - at Ipswich2
51262 56422 Noted 09/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51269 56422 Noted 08/08/1974 - at Kings Cross1
51301 56422 Noted 03/08/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51269 56422 Noted 11/10/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51297 56422 Noted 05/01/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51297 56422 Noted 30/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51429 56422 Noted circa 03/19794
51262 56422 Noted circa 04/19824
68 51268 54422 Noted 19/08/83 - at Norwich3
63 51268 54422 Noted circa 05/19844
63 51268 54422 Noted 22/12/84
63 51268 54422 Noted circa 04/19854
63 51268 54422 Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
51268 54422 Noted 14/12/85
63 51268 54422 Listed at NC - Dec-85
63 51268 54422 Noted circa 01/19864
63 51268 54422 Listed at Norwich - May 1986
63 51268 54422 Noted 14/06/86 - at Norwich3
63 51268 54422 Noted 26/06/1986 - at Chettisham on 12.05 Cambridge to Peterborough.5

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Ipswich Transport Society
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Nicholas Youngman

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Thetford

May 1984

Set number: 63

Class 105 DMU set 63 (presumably 54422 + 51268) with an Ely service at Thetford in May 1984. Bill Fraser.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 9th January 1985

E51268 + E54422 with the 14.10 Peterborough to Cambridge passing Queen Adelaide on 9th January 1985. Nicholas Youngman.

DMU

Date: 19th October 1985

Set number: 63

On a journey from Leamington Spa to Ely on 19 October 1985 we stopped at Cambridge where I photographed all-blue class 105 DMU, 51268 + 54422, receding from the camera probably making a shunt move between platforms at the station. Peter Tandy.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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