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<- 56130 | 56131 | 56132 ->

Vehicle 56131 / 54131

Class 105

BR Diagram 526

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30283
Diagram: 526

Allocations

18/03/57 New to 53C (Hull Springhead)
30/11/58 Transferred to 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) - (53C closed)
Jan-60Depot code change50C
3w/e 27/11/65 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73Depot code changeFP
w/e 02/10/77 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
Dec-83Depot code changeNC
01/06/86 Transferred to CA (Cambridge)
22/06/86 Withdrawn from CA (Cambridge)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56131 - original number
54131 - from Feb-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50376 56131 As delivered to 53C - 18th March 1957
50376 56131 Transfer to 31A - 3w/e 27/11/65
50376 56131 Transfer to 34G - 3w/e 30/04/66
51255 56131 Noted 18/09/70 - at Cambridge1
50367 56131 Noted 06/08/19742
51472 56131 Noted 25/05/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
50387 56131 Noted 17/04/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
50387 56131 Noted 08/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
50387 56131 Noted 22/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51271 56131 Noted 20/01/77 - on Cambridge depot3
51271 56131 Noted 27/01/77 - on Cambridge depot3
51271 56131 Noted 24/02/77 - on Cambridge depot3
51269 56131 Noted 01/10/77 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51269 56131 Transfer to NR - w/e 02/10/77
38 51292 56131 Noted 04/03/78 - at Bury St Edmunds3
38 51292 56131 Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
79 50597 56131 Noted 13/12/80
79 50597 56131 Noted 29/12/80 - at Bury St Edmunds3
40 51293 54131 Noted 17/03/83 - at Norwich3
40 51293 54131 Noted circa 01/19844
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 service5
51293 54131 Noted 18/01/86 - on 21:20 Crewe - Grantham service5
40 51293 54131 Noted circa 02/19864
Spare 54131 Listed at Cambridge - Summer 1986

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Martin Baumann

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Kings Cross

July 1967

A pair of Cravens Local Passenger (later Class 105) 2-car dmu's Nos. E56131 (141), E51257 (105/2) in Rail Blue livery with all-yellow front end and Nos.E51256 (105/2), E56424 (141) in green livery with small yellow warning panel arriving at Kings Cross from Hatfield on a service for which the class was not designed - intensive suburban passenger, 07/67. Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 105 DMU at Norwich

29th July 1981

Set number: 63

E56131 + E51268 at Norwich with the 16:45 to Peterborough, 29/7/81. John Carter.

Class 105 DMU at Ipswich

9th July 1983

Set number: 40

A Class 105 Cravens DMU with DTC E54131 nearest in Platform No1 of Ipswich station, 9th July 1983. Paul James.

Class 105 DMU at Oakham

June 1984

Set number: 40

E54131 at the front of Norwich based Cravens set 40 departing from Oakham with a Cambridge service in June 1984. Mel Smith.

Class 105 DMU at Cambridge

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.

Class 105 DMU at Snailwell

31st July 1988

Class 105 DTCL E54131 at Snailwell on 31 July 1988. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 105 DMU at Snailwell

6th August 1988

E54131 at Snailwell on 6 August 1988. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 13th December 1980

The 12.38 Doncaster - Cambridge dmu passes Whitemoor Jn on December 13th 1980. Class 114 Derby 'heavyweight' set E56013 + E50039 is leading a hybrid Norwich set no. 79 consisting of Class 104 BRCW motor car E50597 and Cravens built Class 105 trailer E56131. Many of the Lincoln allocated class 114s had been repainted and refurbished by this time, but this set is still in BR standard blue. Gerard Fletcher.

DMU

Date: 29th July 1981

Set number: 58

E51255 + E56130 / E51268 + E56131 with the 1645 ex-Norwich at Peterborough on 27/7/81. John Carter.

DMU

Date: 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.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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