Vehicle 56317
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 23/02/58 | New to | 64A (St Margarets) | |
| c. summer-58 | Transferred to | Leith Central | |
| Nov-59 | Depot code change | 64H | |
| 3w/e 30/04/66 | 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 30/05/70 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NO | |
| Sep-73 | Depot code change | NR | |
| 11/10/73 | Withdrawn from | NR (Norwich) | |
| p/e 29/12/73 | Reinstated | NR (Norwich) | - (store) |
| w/e 04/05/74 | Withdrawn from | NR (Norwich) |
Disposal
Preserved - more details.
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51125 | 56317 | As delivered to 64A - February 1958 | |||||||
| 51125 | 56317 | Transfer to 66C - 4w/e 07/05/66 | |||||||
| 51114 | 56317 | Noted 18/08/69 - at Peterborough1 | |||||||
| 50417 | 56317 | Noted circa Sep-70 - at Ipswich2 | |||||||
| 50346 | 56317 | Noted 18/09/70 - at Peterborough1 | |||||||
| 51123 | 56317 | Noted 03/09/71 - at Ipswich1 | |||||||
| 49 | 50365 | 56317 | Noted circa 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | ||||||
| 51 | 50249 | 56317 | Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | ||||||
| 58 | 51282 | 56317 | Noted 07/04/73 - on Norwich depot2 | ||||||
| 51120 | 56317 | Noted 20/05/73 | |||||||
| 63 | 51284 | 56317 | Noted 23/06/73 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | ||||||
| 65 | 51114 | 56317 | Noted 22/09/73 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | ||||||
| 65 | 51114 | 56317 | Noted 01/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds3 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Ipswich Transport Society
3: Gerald Brown
Images:
6th September 1962
A GRC&W twin DMU in Craiglockhart station on Edinburgh Inner Circle service on 6 September 1962. DTCL Sc56317 is closest, allocated to Leith Central depot (64H) at the time. Stuart Mackay Collection.
2nd May 1964
SC56317 leads a Gloucester twin on a North Berwick service at Drem Junction on 2 May 1964. Stuart Mackay Collection.
22nd November 1975
Class 100 DTCL E56317 is seen stabled in a siding at Carmarthen on 22 November 1975 awaiting movement to a new life in preservation on the Gwili Railway. The vehicle had spent just 16 years in service with BR, it would stay on the Gwili Railway for almost 20 years. This was followed by 20 years of storage at a variety of other sites before disposal in 2016. Robert Thomas.
8th May 1976
Class 100 DTCL E56317 stabled at Carmarthen on 8 May 1976. It was awaiting movement to preservation. Note the roof has been painted in two different shades.From memory the other side was painted red as part of a livery experiment. Robert Thomas.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 7th April 1974
Views of the experimental liveries applied to E56315 (white-orange) and E56317 (blue) at Wolverton on 7th April 1974. Keith Gunner.
Date: 7th April 1974
Experimental liveries applied to E56315 (yellow) and E56317 (red), seen at Wolverton on 7th April 1974. Neither vehicle seems to have returned to passenger traffic, 56315 became part of the Fisons weedkiller train in July '74 and 56317 was in preservation by 1975 at the Gwilli Railway. Keith Gunner.