Vehicle 56319
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 15/03/58 | 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) | |
| 2w/e 31/10/66 | 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| 22/10/72 | Withdrawn from | 64B (Haymarket) |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:
| 51127 | 56319 | As delivered to 64A - March 1958 | |||||||
| 51127 | 56319 | Transfer to 66C - 4w/e 07/05/66 | |||||||
| 50340 | 56319 | Noted 17/08/70 - at Edinburgh1 | |||||||
| 51127 | 56319 | Noted 26/08/1972 - Branch Line Society Forth Man Railtour. An unidentified 2 car 101 was also part of the train |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
Images:
15th March 1958
Newly delivered GRC&W twin set Sc56319 + Sc51127 passing Craigentinny on 15 March 1958. Stuart Mackay Collection.
circa April 1961
A Gloucester twin DMU seen at Stirling with a Callander service, driver Jimmie Lapsley from Grangemouth MPD is at the controls. Circa spring 1961. British Railways.
26th August 1972
The Branch Line Society 'Forth Man' railtour at Limpetness on 26/8/72. Six Bells Junctions notes vehicles as GRCW set 56319 + 51117 and a two-car Met-Camm, and that the tour stopped here as a work to rule MOD staff prevented access to Rosyth Dockyard. Stuart Mackay Collection.