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Vehicle 56449 / 54449

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

29/11/58	New to	40A (Lincoln)
2w/e 31/05/59	Transferred to	34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60	Transferred to	34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73	Depot code change	FP
2w/e 01/05/77	Transferred to	SF (Stratford)
07/07/85	Withdrawn from	SF (Stratford)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56449 - original number
54449 - from 11/04/83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

51291	56449	As delivered to 40A - 29th November 1958
50367	56449	Noted 31/03/73 - at Ipswich¹
51270	56449	Noted 07/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
51270	56449	Noted 10/08/1974 - at Kings Cross³
51220	56449	Noted 18/08/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
51281	56449	Noted 09/1974 - at Kings Cross³
51270	56449	Noted 10/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
51270	56449	Noted 10/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
51270	56449	Noted 09/09/1975 - at Kings Cross ³
51275	56449	Noted 21/02/76 - at Bury St Edmunds²
51275	56449	Noted 28/02/76 - at Bury St Edmunds²
51472	56449	Noted 03/07/76 - at Bury St Edmunds²
51294	56449	Noted 07/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds²
51258	56449	Noted 20/01/77 - on Cambridge depot²
56449		Noted 17/02/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle²
56449		Noted 24/02/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle²
56449		Noted 03/03/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle²
50365	56449	Noted 01/07/78 - at Stratford⁴
50368	56449	Noted 29/08/1979 - At Wickford Essex Bay Platform⁵
50362	56449	Noted 24/08/1982 - on Stratford depot⁴
53362	54449	Noted circa 07/1983⁶
53362	54449	Noted 14/10/1983 - Romford with 10.23 to Upminster⁷
53362	54449	Noted circa 01/1984⁶

Formation Sources
1: Ipswich Transport Society
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Martin Lumley
5: Shayne Lewis
6: Eddie Knorn
7: Alan N Walker

Images:

1st August 1978

The interior of 56449 while at Southminster on the 1st of August 1978. Robert Chilton.

circa August 1983

A view from the bufferstop at Sudbury station circa August 1983. In the station is a Class 105 DMU formed of E54449 + E53362 which was on a railtour named "The Great Eastern" that ran from London Liverpool Street. Stuart Mackay Collection.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: circa August 1983

A Cravens DMU (E53362 + E54449) at Needham Market on a railtour named 'The Great Eastern'. The slide process date was August 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: circa August 1983

A Class 105 DMU (vehicles E53362 + E54449) on the "The Great Eastern" railtour in Sudbury station circa August 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: circa August 1983

A Class 105 DMU (vehicles E53362 + E54449) on the "The Great Eastern" railtour in Sudbury station circa August 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 3rd September 1983

Class 105 DMU comprising vehicles 53362 and 56449 about to leave Romford on 3 September 1983 with the 14.23 to Upminster. Robert28194.

Date: 12th April 1985

A couple of hundred feet away from this location - Dalston Western Junction - was my Junior school (St Judes) - I had special permission from the Headmaster to be the only boy allowed to carry out my trainspotting hobby in the girls playground on the roof of the school ...!! In those days the only passenger trains over the route during school hours were the Broad St - Richmond services operated by Class 501 EMUs on the nearest tracks. There was no station (Dalston Kingsland) behind the signal box as that route was freight only and there was plenty of it with Classes 15/20/25/31/33/37 and 47s a regular sight. Scroll on 15 years or so to 12th April 1985 and here is the 1343 North Woolwich - Gospel Oak service accelerating away from the Dalston Kingsland stop, passing the box at Western Jn, formed of a Class 105 with E53360 + E54449. Known as the "Crosstown Linkline" service it ran from Camden Road - North Woolwich and operated from 14th May 1979 - 11th May 1985. Nigel Mack.

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