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Vehicle 56424 / 54424

Class 105

BR Diagram 533

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30470
Diagram: 533

Allocations

29/07/58 New to 31A (Cambridge)
3w/e 04/07/59 Transferred to 34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73Depot code changeFP
30/01/77 On loan to NH (Newton Heath)
14/04/77 Ex-loan back to FP (Finsbury Park)
w/e 12/02/78 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
13/03/83 Transferred to LN (Lincoln)
06/11/83 Withdrawn from LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56424 - original number
54424 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51266 56424 As delivered to 31A - 29th July 1958
51264 56424 Noted 12th Nov 1960
51301 56424 Noted 22/04/661
51255 56424 Noted 30/05/70 - at Kings Cross1
51292 56424 Noted 12/06/1971 - Rail Tours Syndicate London Termini No.2 Railtour 56417-51296 + 56123-51270 + 56424-51292
51292 56424 Noted 03/09/71 - on Cambridge depot1
50384 56424 Noted 01/01/1972 - at Kings Cross2
51293 56424 Noted 07/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51293 56424 Noted 08/08/1974 - at Kings Cross2
51262 56424 Noted 06/12/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51256 56424 Noted 27/03/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51256 56424 Noted 30/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51256 56424 Noted 06/06/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
56424 Noted 25/11/76 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle3
56424 Noted 09/12/76 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle3
51272 56424 Transfer to FP - 14/04/77 - ex-loan LMR
51292 56424 Noted 14/01/1978 - At Kings Cross Station4
50380 56424 Noted 27/05/78 - on 1332 Hull-Sheffield and 50008 + 56028 and 50214 + 56066
51299 56424 Noted circa 02/19835
51299 56424 Transfer to LN - p/e 20/03/83

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Kings Cross

July 1966

A pair of Cravens Local Passenger (later Class 105) 2-car dmu's E56424 (141) with E51255 (105/2) and E56457 (141) with E51264 (105/2) departing Kings Cross to Hatfield on a service for which the class was not designed - intensive suburban passenger, July 1966. Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 105 DMU at Ansdell and Fairhaven

19th February 1977

A Cravens DMU sits in Ansdell & Fairhaven railway station on Saturday 19 February 1977. The closest vehicles appears to be E56424, which spent three months on loan to Newton Heath from Finsbury Park in early 1977. Ian 10B.

Class 105 DMU at Sheffield

15th March 1982

Cravens class 105, E56424 + E50381 stands in Platforn 1a at Sheffield Midland station. 15-03-82. Paul James.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: July 1967

A pair of Cravens Local Passenger (later Class 105) 2-car dmu's Nos. E56131 (141), E51257 (105/2) in Rail Blue livery with all-yellow front end and Nos.E51256 (105/2), E56424 (141) in green livery with small yellow warning panel arriving at Kings Cross from Hatfield on a service for which the class was not designed - intensive suburban passenger, 07/67. Hugh Llewelyn.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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