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Vehicle 56116


Class 105

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30281
Diagram: 526

Allocations

02/11/56 New to 53C (Hull Springhead)
30/11/58 Transferred to 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) - (53C closed)
Jan-60Depot code change50C
4w/e 09/10/65 On loan to 31A (Cambridge)
w/e 16/10/65 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
3w/e 27/11/65 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
16/06/68 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
27/12/69 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
4w/e 30/05/70 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
w/e 26/10/80 Transferred to LO (Longsight)
22/11/82 Withdrawn from LO (Longsight)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50361 56116 As delivered to 53C - 2nd November 1956
50361 56116 Transfer to 31A - 4w/e 09/10/65 - On loan from NER
50361 56116 Transfer to 50C - 3w/e 27/11/65
50361 56116 Transfer to 34G - Nov-69
51108 56116 Noted 04/1971 - at Birmingham New Street1
51108 56116 Noted 12/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds2
50418 56116 Noted 03/09/71 - at Norwich3
46 50359 56116 Noted circa e1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2
79 51223 56116 Noted 22/10/72 - at Ipswich4
49 50365 56116 Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51278 56116 Noted 20/05/73
59 51278 56116 Noted 21/07/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
59 51278 56116 Noted 08/12/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51 50249 56116 Noted 13/04/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51 50249 56116 Noted 19/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51283 56116 Noted 03/08/74 - at Birmingham New Street 1
62 51283 56116 Noted 16/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
62 51283 56116 Noted 11/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2
62 51283 56116 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
58 51282 56116 Noted 19/06/76
64 51478 56116 Noted 10/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
64 51476 56116 Noted 24/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
64 51478 56116 Noted 24/09/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
64 51478 56116 Noted 13/02/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2
64 51257 56116 Noted 17/03/77 - on Cambridge depot2
56 51256 56116 Noted 03/08/78 - at Norwich2
56 51256 56116 Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
51256 56116 Noted 06/09/1980 - Fakenham & Dereham Railway Society GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour 51256-56116+51271-56125
51124 56116 Transfer to LO - w/e 26/10/80
51124 56116 Noted circa 01/19825

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Ipswich Transport Society
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Norwich depot

4th August 1975

Set number: 62

A summer's day at Norwich. Class 03 shunter No. 03029 and a first generation Class 105 DMU (set 62, believed to be E56116) keep each other company at Norwich depot on Monday 4th August 1975. Photo taken on day two of the "Secret Five" mystery tours: five day trips on five consecutive days to mystery destinations from Weston-super-Mare and other picking-up points in the Bristol area. Tom Harper.

Class 105 DMU at Norwich

21st April 1979

Set number: 62

The Wymondham & Dereham Rail Action Committee (WyDRAC), the Railway Development Society (RDS) and the newly-formed Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society chartered two 2-car Class 105 DMU sets to operate the 'Fakenham Flyer' on 21/Apr/1979. It ran to Dereham before heading to Fakenham and then operating a shuttle service to Ryburgh, County School, North Elmham and back to Dereham and Fakenham. Seen at Norwich. The lead car was 56116 and the rest of the formation included 51277 and 56125 but one of the DMBSs went unrecorded. Robert Chilton.

Class 105 DMU at Yaxham

21st April 1979

Set number: 62

Yaxham signalbox and level crossing os the location of this view of a Cravens class 105 dmu (56116 visible) taken on 21 April 1979. This was one of a pair of trips on the Fakenham branch organised on this date by the Wymondham, Dereham & Fakenham Railway Action Committee. Jeremy Chapter.

Class 105 DMU at Fakenham

21st April 1979

Set number: 62

The "Fakenham Flyer" railtour is seen at its destination on 21 April 1979 formed of two Norwich 2-car class 105 Cravens units, 56116, an unknown DMBS, 51277 and 56125. Jeremy Chapter.

Class 105 DMU at Hope Valley

April 1982

Three weeks road learning at Toton, most of it on single unit DB975042 until it disappeared mysteriously on the last week. Here Guide Bridge Driver Norman 'Nobby' Robinson is seen here at the helm of the replacement 2 car unit, 56116 and 51124. Taken somewhere in the Hope Valley. Note the traditional brew can lid on the window sill! Arnie Furniss.

Class 105 DMU at Chinley

April 1982

Reflections on Ernie Nield. Ernie started his railway career at Macclesfield in the dim and distant past when there was a depot there. You can tell by his face that he was of a cheery disposition. Taken through the window of the driver's compartment of DMU 56116 in April 1982, somewhere near Chinley, on our way back home to Guide Bridge from route learning at Toton. This used to be the first class compartment on this unit, it's full of first class railwaymen here! Arnie Furniss.

Inside a Class 105 DMU

April 1982

Guide Bridge Driver Bob Malpas at the controls of 56116 that we used for a few days on the route learning trips to Toton. He went on to greater things, he trained me on class 158s when I became a driver, which included using one of the first 'simulators', a complete waste of time and money. Driving one on the West coast main line North of Preston taught me all I needed to know about 158s and gave me an appreciation of those units! Arnie Furniss.

Inside a Class 105 DMU

April 1982

Manchester Victoria and Guide Bridge Driver Eddy Bright. When I took this on the route learning DMU to Toton, through the cab window of 56116 in April 1982, he was a Guide Bridge driver. It was great fun to work with this man, you can tell by his face that it was usually smiling. Arnie Furniss.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 25th August 1977

Set number: 64

A Cravens 2-car (DMBS E51257 trailing and DTCL E56116), has arrived at Leicester on the 15.40 from Peterborough and will form the 17.30 return. 25 August 1977. Kevin Lane.

DMU

Date: 6th September 1980

Set number: 56

On 6 September 1980, the Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour ran with a pair Cravens dmu sets. Nearest the camera at March is 56125, then come 51271, 56116 and 51256. Having visited Wisbech, the tour then ran to Sleaford, Bardney, Shirebrook and Lincoln before returning to March. Jeremy Chapter.

DMU

Date: 6th September 1980

Set number: 49

Bardney station in Lincolnshire was only open for occasional sugar beet traffic by 1980. On 6 September of that year, the Fakenham & Dereham Railway Society ran a railtour which visited the branch. Another railtour in February 1981 was the last passenger train to reach this point where passenger trains had been withdrawn in 1970. Car 51271 is nearest the camera, other vehicles included 56116, 51256 and 56125. Jeremy Chapter.

DMU

Date: 6th September 1980

Set number: 56

On 6 September 1980 the Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society ran their "GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour" using a pair of Class 105 Cravens-built two-car diesel units, seen here at Wisbech Goods. The full formation as 56125/51271 + 56116/51256. Jeremy Chapter.