Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30470
Diagram: 533
05/01/59 | New to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
3w/e 04/07/59 | Transferred to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
3w/e 01/08/59 | Transferred to | 34B (Hornsey) | |
Apr-60 | Transferred to | 34G (Finsbury Park) | |
3w/e 02/07/60 | Transferred to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
w/e 01/09/62 | Transferred to | 34G (Finsbury Park) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | FP | |
07/01/77 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
3w/e 30/06/79 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) | |
17/07/83 | Withdrawn from | LO (Longsight) |
Dec-83 - Officially withdrawn, but still in traffic during December at NH.
56456 - original number
54456 - from by Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Preserved - more details.
51298 | 56456 | As delivered to 31A - 5th January 1959 | |||||||
51298 | 56456 | Transfer to 40A - 3w/e 04/07/59 | |||||||
51298 | 56456 | Transfer to 34G - w/e 01/09/62 | |||||||
51272 | 56456 | Noted 30/05/70 - at Kings Cross1 | |||||||
51472 | 56456 | Noted 09/1974 - at Kings Cross2 | |||||||
51280 | 56456 | Noted 28/09/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | |||||||
51280 | 56456 | Noted 18/10/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | |||||||
51280 | 56456 | Noted 15/11/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | |||||||
51250 | 56456 | Noted 29/11/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | |||||||
50389 | 56456 | Transfer to TS - 07/01/77 | |||||||
50389 | 56456 | 51119 | Noted 11/04/1977 - 2D66, 07.52 Wolverhampton to Chester, extended to Rhyl4 | ||||||
NH345 | 50971 | 56456 | Noted circa 10/19824 | ||||||
50971 | 56456 | Noted 13/10/1982 - Worked 07.13 Southport to Manchester Victoria via Atherton with 50454-504804 | |||||||
50971 | 56456 | Noted circa 12/19824 | |||||||
53971 | 54456 | Noted circa 05/19834 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
Coupled to a Derby built Class 108 Driving Motor Brake Second in blue & grey livery, former Eastern Region Cravens Class 105 Driving Trailer M54456 was still in rail blue at Croston on August 13th 1983. The odd couple were working the 16.15 Ormskirk to Preston service. The downgrading of the former main line from Preston to Ormskirk is evident with the abandoned platform on this once double track railway. M54456 survived the cull of these once numerous DMUs and is now on the Llangollen Railway. Martyn Hilbert.
Class 105 Cravens DTCL 56456 in the middle of a formation at Manchester Victoria on 2-5-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
Tyseley hybrid DMU set TS413 (Class 105 DMCL M50786, a Class 105 DTSL which looks like M56456 and a Class 101 DMBS) with a refurbished Class 116 on the rear is seen on a southbound ECS leaving Four Oaks on 30 May 1978. Michael Mensing.
A former Eastern Region Cravens Class 105 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50389, complete with a paraffin tail lamp, was stood in platform 3 at Preston station with a well-filled two-car Manchester Victoria to Blackpool North service on the evening of Friday August 24th 1979. Most of the local Cravens sets in the Preston area were power-twin units, but this set was a power-trailer, with Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) M56456 leading. Martyn Hilbert.