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Vehicle 56100

Class 100

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30279
Diagram: 537

Allocations

The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 50345 during the unknown period are:

Jul-57	New to	9A (Longsight)	- on loan from 64A
Jul-57	On loan to	6G (Llandudno Junction)
Aug-57	On loan to	9A (Longsight)
Sep-57	On loan to	5D (Cockshute)
w/e 02/11/57	Ex-loan back to	64A (St Margarets)

Then the allocations for 56100 are:

c. summer-58	Transferred to	Leith Central
Nov-59	Depot code change	64H
2w/e 26/10/62	Transferred to	66C (Hamilton)
2w/e 08/06/63	Transferred to	67A (Corkerhill)
3w/e 30/04/66	Transferred to	64H (Leith Central)
26/05/68	On loan to	31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 06/07/68	Transferred to	31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 28/06/69	Transferred to	32A (Norwich)
5w/e 30/08/69	Transferred to	31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 30/05/70	Transferred to	32A (Norwich)
May-73	Depot code change	NO
Sep-73	Depot code change	NR
22/02/78	Withdrawn from	NR (Norwich)

Notes

24/05/78 - withdrawn vehicles noted on Norwich depot: 51114, 51125, 51126, 56094, 56100, 79159

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50345	56100	As delivered to 9A - July 1957 - on loan from 64A
	50345	56100	Noted 16th September 1957
	50345	56100	Transfer to 64A - Oct-57
	50345	56100	Transfer to 66C - 2w/e 26/10/62
	50345	56100	Transfer to 64H - 3w/e 30/04/66
	51126	56100	Transfer to 31A - 5w/e 30/08/69
	51274	56100	Noted 23/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
70	51123	56100	Noted 10/03/73 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
	51123	56100	Noted 20/05/73
40	50167	56100	Noted 25/08/73 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
65	51114	56100	Noted 22/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
65	51114	56100	Noted 17/04/74 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
	51114	56100	Noted 18/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
65	51114	56100	Noted 17/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
	51114	56100	Noted 03/1975 - at Norwich ²
64	51478	56100	Listed at NR - 19/07/75
45	50368	56100	Noted 23/06/76 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
50	51266	56100	Noted 11/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
50	51266	56100	Noted 22/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds¹
50	51266	56100	Noted 03/06/77 - at Bury St Edmunds¹

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Peter Wallwork

Images:

17th June 1971

Dmu car E56100 is reversing at Cromer (formerly the M&GNR station of Cromer Beach, as is still shown on the nameboard) on its journey with the 13.52 from Norwich to Sheringham on 17 June 1971. Behind the train is the tower of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul. Tom Burnham.

12th September 1975

Set number: 65

Norwich set 65 (class 100 Gloucester cars 56100 and 51114) are waiting at Cambridge to form the 10.56 to Ely on 12 September 1975. The "FRI 12" notice in the cab window refers to the unit's next exam date, implying that the set would return to Norwich Crown Point by the end of the day. Jeremy Chapter.

3rd August 1976

Set number: 45

E56100, at Peterborough on 3/8/76 apparently heading for Norwich. Signs in the cab windows proclaim it's set 45 (the other vehicle appears to be a Cravens). David Underwood adds: "'4 WED' in the windscreen reflects the method by which Norwich Depot advised when the unit was next due for maintenance at Norwich, i.e. the unit had to be placed on a diagram that finished at Norwich on that day." Ian Francis.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 17th June 1971

Trains crossing at North Walsham, 17 June 1971. On the right, E51278 heads a 4-car formation on the 15.36 Norwich-Cromer, as the signalman exchanges single line tokens. On the left, E56100 heads the waiting 15.30 Sheringham-Norwich. Tom Burnham.

Date: unknown

Set number: 64

A 6-car formation seen at Norwich, from left to right are 56307 + 51111, 51115 + 56100, 51282 (105) + 56300. Circa early/mid-1970s. Tim Stubbs.

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