Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30470
Diagram: 533
10/10/58 | 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 | |
Dec-83 | Depot code change | NC | |
22/06/86 | Transferred to | LN (Lincoln) | |
12/10/86 | Withdrawn from | LN (Lincoln) |
56439 - original number
54439 - from Nov-84 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
51281 | 56439 | As delivered to 31A - 10th October 1958 | |||||||
51281 | 56439 | Noted 19th July 1959 | |||||||
50365 | 56439 | Noted 21/12/70 - at Norwich1 | |||||||
50249 | 56439 | Noted 03/09/71 - at Norwich1 | |||||||
65 | 51114 | 56439 | Noted circa 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
78 | 51222 | 56439 | Noted circa 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
65 | 51114 | 56439 | Noted 10/02/73 - on Norwich depot3 | ||||||
56 | 51277 | 56439 | Noted 15/08/73 - at Stowmarket2 | ||||||
56 | 51277 | 56439 | Noted 25/10/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
51277 | 56439 | Noted 03/08/1974 - at Birmingham New Street 4 | |||||||
56 | 51277 | 56439 | Noted 22/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
51277 | 56439 | Noted 28/05/75 | |||||||
56 | 51277 | 56439 | Listed at NR - 19/07/75 | ||||||
51 | 50249 | 56439 | Noted 05/06/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
50249 | 56439 | Noted 14/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
56 | 51256 | 56439 | Noted 03/09/77 | ||||||
51255 | 56439 | Noted 20/03/78 - at Bury St Edmunds being hauled by 313252 | |||||||
58 | 51255 | 56439 | Noted 03/08/78 - on Norwich depot2 | ||||||
58 | 51255 | 56439 | Listed at NR - Autumn 1978 | ||||||
51255 | 56439 | Noted 10/01/79 - at Norwich2 | |||||||
58 | 51255 | 56439 | Noted 08/04/79 - on Norwich depot2 | ||||||
51297 | 56439 | Noted 24/05/80 - at Norwich2 | |||||||
51297 | 56439 | Noted 17/04/81 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
43 | 51297 | 56439 | Noted 09/09/81 | ||||||
59 | 51258 | 54439 | Noted circa 09/19845 | ||||||
71 | 53381 | 54439 | Noted circa 04/19855 | ||||||
71 | 53381 | 54439 | Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85 | ||||||
71 | 53381 | 54439 | Listed at NC - Dec-85 | ||||||
71 | 53381 | 54439 | Noted 12/04/19865 | ||||||
71 | 53381 | 54439 | Listed at Norwich - June 1986 | ||||||
53381 | 54439 | Noted 04/08/86 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Ipswich Transport Society
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
Evening at Spalding Town. A Cravens diesel multiple unit (the vehicles are thought to be E56439 + E50249) stands at Spalding station on the evening of Saturday 24th April 1976. I would have taken this photo whilst waiting to board the return day excursion train I had travelled on from Bristol. Tom Harper.
A Class 105 Cravens DMU sitting in Felixstowe station after arriving with the 10:00 from Ipswich on 9 September 1977. Closest is DTCL E56439. Robert Thomas.
Cravens Class 105 Set 71 (E54439 closest) departs from Manningtree with the 1046 Manningtree - Harwich Town on Saturday 16th November 1985. Colin Brooks.
Cravens Class 105 Set 71 (54439 closest and presumably 53381) on the 12:30 Manningtree - Harwich Town heads away from Wrabness on Saturday 16th November 1985. Colin Brooks.
Class 105 Set 71 (54439 closest) with the 09:55 Harwich Town - Manningtree ambles towards Mistley on Saturday 16th November 1985. Colin Brooks.
Class 105 Set 71 (E54439 closest) with the 11:54 Harwich Town - Manningtree arriving at Wrabess on Saturday 16th November 1985. Colin Brooks.
E54439 + E53381 near Ely on a Cambridge to Lincoln service, 04.08.86. Nicholas Youngman.
A two-car Cravens DMU (54439 + 53381) in Doncaster station on 21 March 1987. John Law Collection.
Class 105 DMU vehicles 54439 + 53381 are seen at Doncaster, Saturday 21/03/1987. Graeme Phillips Collection.
Left to right: E56187 + E51273, E56136 + E50594, E56439 + E51297, 31259, 47135. Ipswich, 29/7/81. John Carter.
Norwich was always swarming with the busy little Cravens Class 105 dmus in the 70s & 80s. Resting between duties here is Set 43, E51297 + E56439. The old twin headcode box has been plated over which was unusual and note yet another Cravens reflected in the windows! The destination blind shows Ipswich, but strangely there was only a single dmu working along the main line through Diss at this time. This was the 17.15 Norwich - Ipswich all stations which was scheduled to run just behind a London service. 9/9/81. Gerard Fletcher.
Class 105 Set 71 (presumably 53381 + 54439) depart Wrabness on the 12:30 Manningtree - Harwich Town service on Saturday 16th November 1985. Colin Brooks.
Class 105 Set 71 (presumably 53381 and 54439) with the 10:46 Manningtree - Harwich Town arrives at Mistley on Saturday 16th November 1985. Colin Brooks.
Cravens Class 105 Set 71 (presumably 53381 + 54439) with the 10:46 Manningtree - Harwich Town approaches Mistley on Saturday 16th November 1985. Colin Brooks.
53381 and 54439 depart from Leicester with the 11:54 Leicester to Peterborough on the 5th July 1986. Dennis Taylor.
Having carried it's last passengers, Cravens Class 105 Two-Car DMU formed of cars 53381 & 54439, had been relegated to mail and parcels duties, seeing out its last few months in traffic before withdrawal. The unit was stabled with a Class 114 at Leeds Neville Hill Depot on March 15th 1987. Martyn Hilbert.