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Vehicle 56429 / 54429

Class 105

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

Allocations

08/08/58	New to	31A (Cambridge)
3w/e 04/07/59	Transferred to	34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60	Transferred to	34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73	Depot code change	FP
w/e 13/03/77	Transferred to	GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
26/07/81	Transferred to	NR (Norwich)
Dec-83	Depot code change	NC
07/10/84	Transferred to	LN (Lincoln)
07/07/85	Transferred to	NC (Norwich)
01/06/86	Transferred to	LN (Lincoln)
08/06/86	Stored S.	LN (Lincoln)
22/06/86	Reinstated	LN (Lincoln)
12/10/86	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56429 - original number
54429 - from Jan-85 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51271	56429	As delivered to 31A - 8th August 1958
	51278	56429	Noted 03/09/71 - at Cambridge¹
	51263	56429	Noted 01/01/1972 - at Kings Cross²
	51271	56429	Noted 15/06/74 - in Kings Cross¹
	51271	56429	Noted 16/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	50376	56429	Noted 04/08/74 - on Cambridge depot³
	50375	56429	Noted 03/1975 - at Kings Cross ²
	50376	56429	Noted 08/03/75 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	50376	56429	Noted 01/06/75 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	51260	56429	Noted 10/08/75 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	51261	56429	Noted 06/02/76 - on Cambridge depot³
	56429	51471	Noted 30/10/1976 - LCGB The Greater London & Southminster Railtour 56429-51471+56447-51260
	51471	56429	Noted 25/11/76 - on Cambridge depot³
	56429		Noted 27/01/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle³
	51276	56429	Noted 11/04/77 - at Newcastle¹
	51282	56429	Noted 30/05/81
47	51295	56429	Noted 09/09/81
	51255	56429	Noted circa 04/1982⁴
58	51255	56429	Noted 28/10/82
58	51255	56429	Noted 24/08/1983⁴
58	51255	54429	Noted circa 01/1984⁴
58	51255	54429	Noted 10/04/84 - at Norwich³
	51299	54429	Noted 14/06/1985 - 1238 Nottingham - Skegness⁵
	51299	54429	Transfer to NR - 07/07/85 - from LN
52	51299	54429	Noted 28/08/85 - at Norwich³
52	51265	54429	Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
52	51299	54429	Listed at NC - Dec-85
52	51299	54429	Noted 15/02/1986⁴
	51299	54429	Noted 28/10/1986 - at Ely on 08.45 Cambridge to Leicester.⁶

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: MidlandDeltic
6: Nicholas Youngman

Images:

30th May 1981

Cars E56429 E51282 are seen at Gateshead East approaching Newcastle with a service from South Shields on 30/5/81, the last day of British Rail services on the South Tyneside branch prior to conversion to the Tyneside Metro system. Against the backdrop of Newcastle's skyline, a Class 47 can be seen approaching the station on the ECML. Graeme Phillips Collection.

30th May 1981

A Class 105 (E56429 E51282) arriving at South Shields from Newcastle, on 30/05/1981, the last day of BR services prior to conversion to Tyneside Metro system. Graeme Phillips Collection.

April 1983

Set number: 58

A Cravens unit enters Mistley station, working between Harwich and Manningtree in April 1983. The signal box was later moved to the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel & Wakes Colne. The DTC closest is possibly 56429. Kevin Lane.

19th October 1985

Evidence of imminent resignalling is obvious in this photograph at Ely North taken on 19 October 1985 as a class 105 led by E54429 arrives at its destination. The light had all but caved in by this time but looking at the slides of classes 20, 31, 37 and 45 I took at March it had cleared by the time we reached there. Peter Tandy.

12th June 1986

A Cravens set (54429 closest) and a Class 141 outside Doncaster Works on 12-6-86. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 9th September 1981

Set number: 47

Many people disliked the Cravens Class 105s intensely because of their noisy ride. To me this just added to the 'experience'. To get a Cravens twin with the needle off the clock (over 70mph) was exhilarating to say the least and also quite commonplace. Here Norwich set no. 47 (E51295 + E56429) awaits its next duty on September 9th 1981. Gerard Fletcher.

Date: 28th October 1982

Set number: 58

On a very bright Thursday October 28th 1982, the 11.47 Peterborough - Cambridge service pauses at Whittlesea with (left to right) Cravens Class 105 sets 58 (E51255/E56429) and 47 (E56135/E51295). Gerard Fletcher.

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.

Date: 27th September 1986

A scene at York station on 27 September 1986 - with one of the distinctive-looking Cravens units. The unit was about to work the 16.42 local service to Doncaster - vehicle numbers E51299 and E54429. The station staff stage-left had just blown his whistle, and on this occasion I even primed my 'ghetto blaster' and made a recording of the departure: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-10193594/class-105-2-car-dmu-e51299-e54429-leaves-york-on-a-local-service-to-doncaster-27sep1986. Chris McKee.

Date: 23rd April 1987

A Cravens unit stands at Lincoln Central on 23rd April 1987. I rarely noted DMU numbers but on this occasion I recorded this unit as nos. 51299 and 54429. Andrew Walker.

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