Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30470
Diagram: 533
03/09/58 | 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 12/02/78 | Transferred to | LN (Lincoln) | |
23/09/84 | Withdrawn from | LN (Lincoln) |
56431 - original number
54431 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
51273 | 56431 | As delivered to 31A - 3rd September 1958 | |||||||
51471 | 56431 | Noted 03/06/72 - at Ipswich1 | |||||||
51301 | 56431 | Noted 02/05/73 - at Cambridge2 | |||||||
51301 | 56431 | Noted 09/06/73 - at Ipswich1 | |||||||
51289 | 56431 | Noted 30/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51263 | 56431 | Noted 10/08/1974 - at Kings Cross3 | |||||||
51290 | 56431 | Noted 12/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51290 | 56431 | Noted 12/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51290 | 56431 | Noted 17/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
51269 | 56431 | Noted 25/11/76 - on Cambridge depot2 | |||||||
51269 | 56431 | Noted 09/12/76 - on Cambridge depot2 | |||||||
51298 | 56431 | Noted 08/01/78 | |||||||
51298 | 56431 | Noted 08/01/1978 - RCTS Great Northern Outer Suburban Railtour 51301-56433+51298-56431 | |||||||
51296 | 56431 | Transfer to LN - w/e 12/02/78 | |||||||
51288 | 56431 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||||
51288 | 54431 | Noted circa 11/19834 |
Formation Sources
1: Ipswich Transport Society
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
Two Finsbury Park based class 105 sets with 56431 leading 51298, 56433 and 51301 on a RCTS special to Peterborough for the N.V.R. at a photo-stop at Royston on the 8th January 1978. Robert Chilton.
Two Finsbury Park based class 105 sets with 56431 leading 51298, 56433 and 51301 on a RCTS special to Peterborough for the N.V.R. seen at Hertford North on the 8th January 1978. Robert Chilton.
E51301 + 56433 / 51298 + 56431 on the RCTS "Great Northern Outer Suburban" at Royston on 8 January 1978 Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Class 105 56431 + 51288 Cravens 2-car DMU with set leading arriving Doncaster 23-10-82 On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
E54431 at York circa 1983/4. Curly42.
51278 (left) and 54431 (right) seen at Doncaster on the 4th December 1983. Chris Lings.
Cravens DMUs in the early Rail Blue era. The driver trailer (possibly E56431) has no sign that first class is on offer, no yellow stripe or transfers on the windows. It has yellow cab doors, the vehicle facing has another short-lived variation from this era, a small yellow panel. Date / location unknown. Graham Clark.
Two Finsbury Park based class 105 2-car sets with 51301 leading 56433, 51298 and 56431 on a RCTS special to Peterborough for the N.V.R. at London Kings Cross, alongside some Mk.1 sleepers on the 8th January 1978. Robert Chilton.
A pair of Cravens Class 105 DMUs (51301 + 56433 / 51298 + 56431) at Letchworth with the RCTS "Great Northern Outer Suburban" railtour on 8 January 1978. Stuart Mackay Collection.
At Doncaster on 23/11/80 is a Lincoln Cravens set including DTC 56431. Cleethorpes is on the destination blind. Chris Lings.
At York station on 30 September 1981 are 08197 (Rowntrees-Dringhouses trip) and E51296 + 56431 (Scarborough-Sheffield). John Carter.
On 25th Aug 1984, instead of chasing 40s across the north-west, I chose to take the only scheduled service that was still booked a Class 40, the Man Picc-Skegness (SO) and return. Here we have reached the loop at Sleaford station behind 40 012 'Aureol', after traversing the single-line curve between Sleaford North and Sleaford West Junctions. A six-car DMU set passes us heading for Nottingham Midland, made up of a 2-car Cravens unit with DMBS power trailer E51288 leading, E54431 behind, and two pairs of Lincoln-based Class 114 Derby Heavyweights. Chris McKee.