Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30281
Diagram: 526
01/01/57 | New to | 53C (Hull Springhead) | |
30/11/58 | Transferred to | 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) | - (53C closed) |
Jan-60 | Depot code change | 50C | |
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) | |
Oct-68 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
May-71 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | BG | |
w/e 18/10/75 | Transferred to | LN (Lincoln) | |
30/01/77 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
w/e 01/05/77 | Transferred to | BY (Bletchley) | |
circa Feb-82 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
28/02/82 | Withdrawn |
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
50365 | 56120 | As delivered to 53C - 1st January 1957 | |||||||
50365 | 56120 | Transfer to 31A - 4w/e 09/10/65 - On loan from NER | |||||||
50365 | 56120 | Transfer to 50C - 3w/e 27/11/65 | |||||||
51125 | 56120 | Noted 21/12/70 - at Norwich1 | |||||||
50379 | 56120 | Noted 30/08/1974 - at Doncaster2 | |||||||
50388 | 56120 | Noted 08/09/75 - at Brough1 | |||||||
50388 | 56120 | Noted 11/09/75 - at Brough1 | |||||||
50388 | 56120 | Noted 06/10/75 - at Brough1 | |||||||
50388 | 56120 | Transfer to LN - w/e 18/10/75 | |||||||
50388 | 56120 | Transfer to NH - 31/01/77 | |||||||
50388 | 56120 | Noted 09/04/1977 - at Preston 2 | |||||||
50388 | 56120 | Transfer to BY - w/e 01/05/77 | |||||||
50388 | 56120 | Noted 26/08/77 - at Bletchley3 | |||||||
50393 | 56120 | Noted circa 19784 | |||||||
50393 | 56120 | Noted 09/09/1978 - Worked 12.42 Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey4 | |||||||
50393 | 56120 | Noted circa 19804 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
A Cravens set with E56120 closest at Diss, date unknown. With both the driver and tail lamp at this end, the DMU is probably changing platforms. Steve Davies Collection.
56120 boarded up at Vic Berry's scrapyard. Date unknown, but it spent several years there before being cut. Malcolm Clements.
56120 at Vic Berry's scrapyard on the 17th February 1991. It arrived there nearly seven years earlier, on the 27/7/84! Kevin Dowd.
M56149 (and 56120 behind) seen at Vic Berry's on the 3rd April 1988. Malcolm Clements.