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Vehicle 56437

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

03/10/58 New to 31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 30/05/70 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
Oct-71 Transferred to 40A (Lincoln)
30/04/72 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
21/11/82 Transferred to AY (Ayr)
08/05/83 Stored S. AY (Ayr)
Oct-83 Withdrawn from AY (Ayr)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51279 56437 As delivered to 31A - 3rd October 1958
51279 56437 Noted 05/07/1965 - Kings Lynn area1
50359 56437 Noted 18/08/69 - at Cambridge2
51277 56437 Noted 05/11/70 - at Birmingham New Street with 50339 + 563152
51114 56437 Noted 03/04/1971 - at Birmingham New Street3
51276 56437 Noted 25/09/71 - at Peterborough2
51278 56437 Transfer to 32A - 30/04/72
59 51278 56437 Noted circa late 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds4
79 51223 56437 Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds4
50249 56437 Noted 20/05/73
51 50249 56437 Noted 23/06/73 - at Bury St Edmunds4
46 50359 56437 Noted 24/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds4
46 50359 56437 Noted 21/12/73 - at Bury St Edmunds4
34 50387 56437 Noted 20/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
34 50387 56437 Noted 28/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
34 50387 56437 Noted 03/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
34 50387 56437 Noted 09/08/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
34 50387 56437 Noted 09/10/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
45 50368 56437 Noted 23/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
45 50368 56437 Noted 23/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds4
45 50368 56437 Noted 25/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds4
50365 56437 Noted 31/05/1975 - at Birmingham New Street3
32 50375 56437 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
50375 56437 Noted 16/08/75 - at Bury St Edmunds4
72 51126 56437 Noted 18/09/76 - at Bury St Edmunds4
72 51126 56437 Noted 18/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds4
51254 56437 Noted 24/05/78 - at Norwich4
54 51254 56437 Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
37 50383 56437 Noted 11/01/79 - at Norwich4
50384 56437 Noted 10/09/1980 - at Norwich Thorpe5
50384 56437 Noted March 1982
50384 56437 Noted 14/03/1982 - at Ipswich5
50384 56437 Noted 02/05/1982 - at Cambridge5
35 50384 56437 Noted 08/08/1982 - on Norwich depot5

Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Martin Lumley

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Birmingham Moor Street

15th December 1973

Set number: 46

Norwich Cravens set number 46 (presumably 56437 + 50359) is paired with a 101. They are seen sitting in Birmingham Moor Street station beside a Class 116 on December 15, 1973. Stuart Mackay Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 1983

Withdrawn Class 105 vehicles in Falkland Yard, Ayr, awaiting movement for disposal circa late 1983. The DTSL centre is E56464, the DTCL on the left is E56437, the DMBS on the right is unknown. John Horne.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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