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Vehicle 56306


Class 100

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30445
Diagram: 537

Allocations

w/e 30/11/57 New to 64A (St Margarets)
c. summer-58 Transferred to Leith Central
Aug-59 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
4w/e 21/11/59 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 67A (Corkerhill)
3w/e 02/07/66 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
May-68 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
2w/e 30/04/72 Transferred to 64B (Haymarket) - 64H closed
23/01/73 Withdrawn from 64B (Haymarket)

Disposal

Scrapped by TW Ward, Inverkeithing

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51114 56306 As delivered to 64A - November 1957
51114 56306 Transfer to Hamilton - Aug-59 - from Leith Central
51123 56306 Transfer to 64H - 4w/e 21/11/59
51114 56306 Transfer to 67A - 4w/e 07/05/66
51124 56306 Noted 16/08/70 - at Leith Central1
51127 56306 Noted 11/09/71 - on Leith Central depot1
51110 56306 Noted 06/04/72 - in Edinburgh Waverley1
51110 56306 Noted 29/07/1972 - at Edinburgh Waverley2

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork

Images:

Class 100 DMU at Lundin Links

10th July 1965

A GRC&W twin at Lundin Links on the Fife Coast line on 10 July 1965. SC56306 is noted as the closest vehicle which was a Leith Central vehicle at the time. Stuart Mackay Collection.