Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30470
Diagram: 533
26/09/58 | New to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
4w/e 30/05/70 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NO | |
Sep-73 | Depot code change | NR | |
2w/e 25/03/78 | Transferred to | SF (Stratford) | |
w/e 30/07/78 | Transferred to | LN (Lincoln) | |
2w/e 01/10/78 | Transferred to | NR (Norwich) | |
Dec-83 | Depot code change | NC | |
27/07/86 | Withdrawn from | NC (Norwich) | |
03/08/86 | Reinstated | NC (Norwich) | |
28/09/86 | Withdrawn from | NC (Norwich) |
31st October 1987 - Seen at Tinsley Yard
27th December 1987 - Seen in Tinsley Yard
56436 - original number
54436 - from Aug-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
51278 | 56436 | As delivered to 31A - 26th September 1958 | |||||||
51278 | 56436 | Noted 1st June 1963 | |||||||
51255 | 56436 | Noted 25/08/69 - at Finsbury Park1 | |||||||
50364 | 56436 | Noted 21/12/70 - at Ely1 | |||||||
50375 | 56436 | Noted 17/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
69 | 51120 | 56436 | Noted circa 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
58 | 51282 | 56436 | Noted 07/08/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
62 | 51283 | 56436 | Noted 13/10/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
62 | 51283 | 56436 | Noted 22/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
49 | 50365 | 56436 | Noted 27/05/74 - 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 | ||||||
75 | 51213 | 56436 | Listed at NR - 19/07/75 | ||||||
46 | 50359 | 56436 | Noted 23/11/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
32 | 50375 | 56436 | Noted 31/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
49 | 50365 | 56436 | Noted 13/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
46 | 50359 | 56436 | Noted 30/06/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
54 | 51254 | 56436 | Noted 16/12/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
51484 | 56436 | Transfer to LN - w/e 30/07/78 | |||||||
51484 | 56436 | Transfer to NR - 2w/e 01/10/78 | |||||||
49 | 51271 | 56436 | Noted 22/02/79 - at Norwich2 | ||||||
56 | 51472 | 54436 | Noted circa 12/19833 | ||||||
39 | 51294 | 54436 | Noted 07/07/85 | ||||||
39 | 51294 | 54436 | Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85 | ||||||
39 | 51294 | 54436 | Listed at NC - Dec-85 | ||||||
45 | 53365 | 54436 | Noted circa 02/19863 | ||||||
45 | 53365 | 54436 | Noted 06/08/86 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
Cravens DMU set 49 (E56436 + E50365) head through the fens north of Postland GN & GE with a Cambridge to Doncaster passenger service on 02.05.77. Phil Bevan.
Running 'wrong line' at Saxmundham after a snow shower on Wednesday February 8th 1978 is Norwich based Cravens twin set no. 54 (E56436 + E51254) forming the 10.50 Lowestoft - Ipswich. Still retaining the twin headcode boxes, this original style of front end was rapidly disappearing by 1978 as cars went through Doncaster Works, reappearing with flush fronts. Photograph by Michael Bryant. Gerard Fletcher.
Norwich set 45 E54436 + E53365 passes Padnal with the 14.30 Norwich to Ely, August 6, 1986. Nicholas Youngman.
Norwich Cravens set 39 E51294 + E54436 in platform 3 of Ely station waiting to form 2P20 to Norwich on July 7, 1985. Nicholas Youngman.
Getting a long way from its home depot is Norwich based class 105 'Cravens' set no.39 (51294+54436) arriving at Worksop with train 2B16 the 12.18 Lincoln Central to Sheffield Midland on 18/09/85. Adrian Nicholls.