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Vehicle 56314

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 02/02/58 New to 64A (St Margarets)
c. summer-58 Transferred to Leith Central
Nov-59Depot code change64H
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
4w/e 30/06/67 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
2w/e 30/04/72 Transferred to 64B (Haymarket) - 64H closed
22/10/72 Withdrawn from 64B (Haymarket)

Disposal

Scrapped by TW Ward, Inverkeithing

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51122 56314 As delivered to 64A - January 1958
51122 56314 Transfer to 66C - 4w/e 07/05/66
51124 56314 Noted 06/04/72 - in Edinburgh Waverley1

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers

Images:

Class 100 DMU at Corstorphine

3rd February 1958

Only a few days after delivery, GRC&W twin set Sc56314 + Sc51122 sits in Corstorphine station with a North Berwick service on 3 February 1958. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 100 DMU at Piershill

7th April 1958

A Gloucester twin, headed by 56314, departs Piershill on a Corstorphine - North Berwick service, 7th April 1958. Hamish Stevenson.

Class 100 DMU at Glasgow St Enoch

6th June 1958

Sc56314 at the head of a 5.28pm Glasgow St.Enoch to Girvan excursion on 6/6/58, leaving St.Enoch station. Hamish Stevenson.

Class 100 DMU at Drem

14th July 1958

A GRC&W twin set at Drem on July 14 1958. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 100 DMU at Princes Street Gardens

Unknown date

A two-car Gloucester DMU passes through Princes Street Gardens on the last part of its journey to Edinburgh Waverley. Date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 100 DMU at Polmont

1966

A busy seen at Polmont on a day in 1966. The GRC&W set with SC56314 closest has Falkirk Grahamston on the desination blind. The KDH Archive.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 3rd February 1958

Delivered the week before, GRC&W twin set Sc51122 + Sc56314 sits in Corstorphine station with a North Berwick service on 3 February 1958. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 3rd February 1958

GRC&W twin set Sc51122 + Sc56314, just a few days after delivery, sits in Corstorphine station with a North Berwick service on 3 February 1958. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 3rd February 1958

The staff have a chit-chat before departure time for the North Berwick service at Corstorphine on 3 February 1958. The train is formed of GRC&W twin set Sc51122 + Sc56314, delivered new just the week before. Stuart Mackay Collection.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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