Vehicle 56435 / 54435
Class 105
Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30470
Diagram: 533
Allocations
| 24/09/58 | New to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| 4w/e 30/05/70 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| Oct-71 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| Feb-72 | On loan to | 9A (Longsight) | - 'to ease the electrical load during the power crisis' |
| Feb-72 | Ex-loan back to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| Oct-72 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NO | |
| Sep-73 | Depot code change | NR | |
| Dec-83 | Depot code change | NC | |
| 20/05/84 | Withdrawn from | NC (Norwich) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
56435 - original number
54435 - from 1984 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51277 | 56435 | As delivered to 31A - 24th September 1958 | |||||||
| 51277 | 56435 | Noted 19th July 1959 | |||||||
| 51276 | 56435 | Noted 03/04/1971 - at Birmingham New Street1 | |||||||
| 51223 | 56435 | Noted 12/07/71 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
| 51276 | 56435 | Noted 03/09/71 - at Cambridge3 | |||||||
| 50387 | 56435 | Transfer to 32A - Oct-72 | |||||||
| 56 | 51277 | 56435 | Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 50375 | 56435 | Noted 14/07/1973 - at Birmingham New Street4 | |||||||
| 32 | 50375 | 56435 | Noted 08/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 55 | 51276 | 56435 | Noted 28/12/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 55 | 51276 | 56435 | Noted 24/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 49 | 50365 | 56435 | Noted 01/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 49 | 50365 | 56435 | Noted 01/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 36 | 50382 | 56435 | Noted 02/04/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 36 | 50382 | 56435 | Listed at NR - 19/07/75 | ||||||
| 50346 | 56435 | Noted 24/10/75 - on Norwich depot2 | |||||||
| 68 | 50346 | 56435 | Noted 02/12/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 68 | 50346 | 56435 | Noted 24/09/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 66 | 51260 | 56435 | Noted 05/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 63 | 51268 | 56435 | Noted 06/08/78 - at Norwich2 | ||||||
| 63 | 51268 | 56435 | Noted 13/08/78 - on Norwich depot2 | ||||||
| 63 | 51268 | 56435 | Listed at NR - Autumn 1978 | ||||||
| 63 | 51268 | 56435 | Noted 08/01/79 - at Norwich2 | ||||||
| 67 | 51262 | 54435 | Noted circa 03/19845 |
Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Jeremy Goodyear
5: Eddie Knorn
Images:
1974
Cravens Class 105 DTCL E56435 in a siding with some wagons, thought to be near March sometime in 1974. Stuart Mackay Collection.
15th October 1977
Set number: 66
Cravens Class 105 DMU set 66 led by 56435 arrives at Norwich on Saturday 15 October 1977 with either the 14.35 Lowestoft to Norwich, or the 14.52 Yarmouth to Norwich. Rob Paterson.
23rd June 1978
Set number: 69
Stabled at Norwich MPD on Friday the 23rd June 1978 is Class 105 DTCL 56435, half of Norwich Set No.69. I believe from my records that the vehicle behind is the other half of Set No.69 Class 100 DMBS 51120. Interestingly 51120 was withdrawn just 6 days after this image was taken on the 29th June 1978 being scrapped at Mayer Newman, Snailwell during May 1981. 56435 would continue in service for almost another 6 years however being withdrawn in May 1984 before following 51120 through the firing tunnel at Snailwell in October 1984. Bob Woolnough.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 8th April 1978
Set number: 68
Norwich based DMU set 68 led by class 100 DMBS 50346 with class 105 DTCL 56435, plus two other sets on a Norwich - Dereham charter organised by the Wymondham & Dereham Rail Action Committee (WyDRAC), Railway Development Society (RDS) and LCGB on 8/Apr/1978. Seen at Norwich. Robert Chilton.