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Vehicle 51293 / 55944

Class 105

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp / Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30469
Diagram: 532

Allocations

06/12/58	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
w/e 12/02/78	Transferred to	NR (Norwich)
Dec-83	Depot code change	NC
01/06/86	To Parcels Sector at	CA (Cambridge)
16/11/86	Stored U.
03/05/87	Withdrawn from	CA (Cambridge)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

51293 - original number
55944 - from 03/03/87 (parcels conversion) - allocated but never carried

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51293	56451	As delivered to 40A - 6th December 1958
	51293	56440	Noted 02/09/67 - in Cambridge station¹
	51293	56457	Noted 25/08/69 - at Hitchin²
	51293	56448	Noted 26/06/71 - at Ipswich³
	51293	56457	Noted 17/06/72 - at Ipswich³
	51293	56424	Noted 07/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
	51293	56454	Noted 27/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
	51293	56424	Noted 08/08/1974 - at Kings Cross⁴
	51293	56418	Noted 25/03/76 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
	51293	56418	Noted 01/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
	51293		Noted 25/11/76 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle¹
	51293	56132	Noted 08/07/77 - on 0718 Kings Cross-Royston with 51471 + 56447
	51293	56123	Noted 10/10/78 - at Norwich¹
40	51293	56123	Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
	51293	56123	Noted 05/02/79 - at Norwich¹
	51293	56185	Noted 11/05/1981 - at Cambridge with 09:50 to Ipswich⁴
40	51293	56414	Noted 26/05/82 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
40	51293	54131	Noted 17/03/83 - at Norwich¹
40	51293	54131	Noted circa 01/1984⁵
40	51293	54131	Noted 25/05/84
40	51293	54131	Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
40	51293	54131	Listed at NC - Dec-85
	51293	54131	Noted 18/01/86 - on 09:22 Derby - Crewe service⁶
	51293	54131	Noted 18/01/86 - on 21:20 Crewe - Grantham service⁶
40	51293	54131	Noted circa 02/1986⁵
	51293	53362	Listed at Cambridge - Summer 1986 - Parcels
	53364	51293	Noted circa 08/1986⁵
	51293	51441	Noted 18/10/1986 - at Liverpool Street - parcels set⁷

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Ipswich Transport Society
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Martin Baumann
7: Robert Chilton

Images:

15th February 1964

E51293 leads the Cravens twin forming the 12:50pm Hatfield - Dunstable North service seen leaving Luton Hoo on 15 February 1964. Michael Mensing.

circa 1980

Set number: 40

DMBS E51293 is nearest to the camera (and seems to be carrying set number 40) leaving Beccles station, which is between Lowestoft and Ipswich in Suffolk, circa 1980. Graeme Phillips Collection.

25th May 1984

Set number: 40

Set 40 (E51293 + E54131) with the 08.55 Ipswich to Peterborough service at Stuntney on May 25th, 1984. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 105 DMU at London Liverpool Street

12th September 1986

Cravens in the Capital. Liverpool Street 12/09/86. By late 1986 the class 105 Cravens built 2-car DMU fleet was in rapid decline with only a handful of operational sets in passenger service. Several Anglia Region examples had been down graded for parcels train use with seating removed and reclassified as DPU's (Diesel Parcel Units). Seen here in London Liverpool Street station one such example a Cambridge allocated 2-car DPU set is seen waiting departure with 4H04 the 16.10 Parcels service to Cambridge. The train was booked one intermediate call at Harlow Town and was due into Cambridge at 17.33, no doubt a lively run on the mainline for the old girl. Closest is 51293, the only one of the parcel vehicles not to have the top lamp position on the dome. Adrian Nicholls.

8th May 1987

Cravens DMBS E51293 - now in parcels use - stabled at Cambridge on May 8th, 1987. Colin Brooks.

8th May 1987

08 638 shunts 105 Parcels Cravens DMBS 51293 between two Met-Camms at Cambridge (1215) May 8, 1987. Colin Brooks.

5th August 1988

Withdrawn E51293 in Whitemoor Yard on 5th August 1988. Nicholas Youngman.

1989

E51293 in Whitemoor circa 1989. E51293 was renumbered to 55944 but the number never carried. It was moved to Snailwell in December 1991. Nicholas Youngman Collection.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 29th April 1980

Set number: 39

At the northern stub of the surviving portion of the former Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GNJR) still in use as part of the national network, a Cravens Class 105 two-car DMU formed of cars E56114 & E51293 had arrived at Sheringham with a service from Norwich via a reversal at Cromer on April 29th 1980. The single platform terminus at Sheringham, complete with its BR Eastern Region dark blue enamel sign, opened on January 2nd 1967 enabling the closure of the adjacent level crossing and the original M&GNJR station (now owned by the North Norfolk Railway). The single platform was intended as a temporary station as the line was scheduled for closure. In the event, it has gone on to be upgraded to accommodate the new Greater Anglia Class 755 DMU's. A connection from the Network Rail line at Sheringham to the North Norfolk Railway was opened in 2010. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: July 1984

Set number: 40

Cravens Class 105 stands in the North Bay at Cambridge Station in July 1984. The DTC nearest the camera is E54131 and it's assumed that its normal DMBS E51293 (forming Set 40) is behind. Electric trains at Cambridge were still three years away. Simon Hadden.

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