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Vehicle 56307

Class 100

BR Diagram 537

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
Nov-59Depot code change64H
Jul-60 On loan to 66C (Hamilton)
3w/e 19/11/60 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
2w/e 28/01/61 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 67A (Corkerhill)
3w/e 02/07/66 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
3w/e 17/06/67 On loan to South Gosforth
2w/e 01/07/67 Transferred to South Gosforth
3w/e 15/03/69 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 28/06/69 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
Mar-79 Withdrawn from NR (Norwich)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51115 56307 As delivered to 64A - November 1957
51115 56307 Transfer to 67A - 4w/e 07/05/66
50362 56307 Noted 18/09/70 - at Cambridge1
50152 56307 Noted 21/12/70 - at Norwich1
50152 56307 Noted circa 04/1971 - at Water Orton2
51277 56307 Noted 17/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51277 56307 Noted 01/09/71 - at Norwich1
51277 56307 Noted 03/09/71 - at Bury St Edmunds1
64 51111 56307 Noted circa 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds3
64 51111 56307 Noted 28/06/73 - at Bury St Edmunds3
48 50364 56307 Noted circa mid-1973 - at Bury St Edmunds3
40 50218 56307 Formation change - circa Oct-73 - replacing 50167 + 561004
69 51120 56307 Noted 01/12/73 - at Bury St Edmunds3
69 51120 56307 Noted 18/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
69 51120 56307 Noted 20/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
69 51120 56307 Noted 30/10/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
46 50359 56307 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
42 50366 56307 Noted 03/03/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
58 51282 56307 Noted 26/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
71 51125 56307 Noted 09/04/77 - on March depot3

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

Images:

Class 100 DMU at Norwich depot

circa 1973

Set number: 64

Ex-works Class 100 set 64 in Norwich DMU shed circa 1973. Thought to be E56307 + E51111. Tim Stubbs.

Class 100 DMU at Saxmundham

circa 1972 / 3

Set number: 64

With Lowestoft showing on the destination blind, GRC&W set 64 heads away from the camera past a Neptune System track machine in the siding to the north east of Saxhumdham station. With bars over the passenger door droplights, this was a vehicle that had previously spent time at South Gosforth and is likely E56307, which dates to circa 1972/3. The regular power car at the time was E51111. Image was from the Steve Davies Collection. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 100 DMU at Norwich

Unknown date

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.

Class 100 DMU at Brampton

16th July 1976

Set number: 58

An Ipswich to Lowestoft service approaching Brampton on the East Suffolk Line on 16 July 1976. The vehicles are E56307 (presumably with E51282) and E51277 + E56125. Phil Bevan.

Class 100 DMU at Cambridge

3rd August 1976

Set number: 58

56307 is seen at Cambridge on 3/8/76. Ian Francis.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 3rd April 1971

A hybrid DMU set arrives into Dovercourt Bay station on 3 April 1971 formed of Class 101 DMBS 50152 and Class 100 DTCL 56307. Nicholas T Smith.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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