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Vehicle 56456 / 54456

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

05/01/59 New to 31A (Cambridge)
3w/e 04/07/59 Transferred to 40A (Lincoln)
3w/e 01/08/59 Transferred to 34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
3w/e 02/07/60 Transferred to 40A (Lincoln)
w/e 01/09/62 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73Depot code changeFP
07/01/77 Transferred to TS (Tyseley)
3w/e 30/06/79 Transferred to LO (Longsight)
17/07/83 Withdrawn from LO (Longsight)

Notes

Dec-83 - Officially withdrawn, but still in traffic during December at NH.

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56456 - original number
54456 - from by Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Preserved - more details.

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51298 56456 As delivered to 31A - 5th January 1959
51298 56456 Transfer to 40A - 3w/e 04/07/59
51298 56456 Transfer to 34G - w/e 01/09/62
51272 56456 Noted 30/05/70 - at Kings Cross1
51472 56456 Noted 09/1974 - at Kings Cross2
51280 56456 Noted 28/09/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51280 56456 Noted 18/10/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51280 56456 Noted 15/11/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51250 56456 Noted 29/11/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
50389 56456 Transfer to TS - 07/01/77
50389 56456 51119 Noted 11/04/1977 - 2D66, 07.52 Wolverhampton to Chester, extended to Rhyl4
NH345 50971 56456 Noted circa 10/19824
50971 56456 Noted 13/10/1982 - Worked 07.13 Southport to Manchester Victoria via Atherton with 50454-504804
50971 56456 Noted circa 12/19824
53971 54456 Noted circa 05/19834

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

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Croston

13th April 1983

Coupled to a Derby built Class 108 Driving Motor Brake Second in blue & grey livery, former Eastern Region Cravens Class 105 Driving Trailer M54456 was still in rail blue at Croston on August 13th 1983. The odd couple were working the 16.15 Ormskirk to Preston service. The downgrading of the former main line from Preston to Ormskirk is evident with the abandoned platform on this once double track railway. M54456 survived the cull of these once numerous DMUs and is now on the Llangollen Railway. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 105 DMU at Manchester Victoria

2nd May 1983

Class 105 Cravens DTCL 56456 in the middle of a formation at Manchester Victoria on 2-5-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 30th May 1978

Set number: TS413

Tyseley hybrid DMU set TS413 (Class 105 DMCL M50786, a Class 105 DTSL which looks like M56456 and a Class 101 DMBS) with a refurbished Class 116 on the rear is seen on a southbound ECS leaving Four Oaks on 30 May 1978. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 24th August 1979

A former Eastern Region Cravens Class 105 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50389, complete with a paraffin tail lamp, was stood in platform 3 at Preston station with a well-filled two-car Manchester Victoria to Blackpool North service on the evening of Friday August 24th 1979. Most of the local Cravens sets in the Preston area were power-twin units, but this set was a power-trailer, with Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) M56456 leading. Martyn Hilbert.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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