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Vehicle 56469

Class 105

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30504
Diagram: 549

Allocations

16/03/59	New to	61A (Kittybrewster)
2w/e 12/03/66	Transferred to	64H (Leith Central)
3w/e 30/04/66	Transferred to	66C (Hamilton)
May-73	Depot code change	HN
w/e 20/04/74	Transferred to	NR (Norwich)
21/11/82	Transferred to	AY (Ayr)
29/03/83	Stored U.	AY (Ayr)
Nov-83	Withdrawn from	AY (Ayr)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51480	56469		As delivered to 61A - 16th March 1959
	51480	56469		Transfer to 64H - 2w/e 12/03/66
	51480	56469		Transfer to 66C - Apr-66
	51480	56469		Noted 15/08/70 - on Hamilton depot¹
	51480	56469		Noted 11/09/71 - on Hamilton depot¹
41	51480	56469		Listed at 66C - 1972
	51480	56469		Noted 17/04/73 - in Glasgow Central²
	51480	56469		Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central³
	51478	56469		Transfer to NR - w/e 20/04/74
64	51478	56469		Noted 16/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
64	51478	56469		Noted 06/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds²
32	50375	56469		Noted 10/08/74 - at Norwich²
35	50389	56469		Noted 16/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds²
35	50389	56469		Listed at NR - 19/07/75
71	51125	56469		Noted 01/03/76 - at Bury St Edmunds²
71	51125	56469		Noted 30/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds²
32	50375	56469		Noted 08/01/77 - at Bury St Edmunds²
52	51267	56469		Noted 16/12/77 - at Bury St Edmunds²
37	50383	56469		Noted 13/08/78 - at Norwich²
48	51291	56469		Noted circa 10/1978⁴
	50371	56469		Noted 24/05/80 - at Norwich²
	50376	56469	52003	Noted 18th January 1983

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

March 1976

Set number: 71

Norwich allocated DMU set 71 seen in Lowestoft (Central) station with a Norwich (Thorpe) - Lowestoft (Central) - Beccles - Ipswich service in March 1976. The vehicles were recorded as E56469 (Class 105 DTCL) and E51125 (Class 100 DMBS). Hugh Llewelyn.

March 1976

Set number: 71

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 14th July 1964

Sc51480 (and presumably Sc56469) are working the 12.30pm Fraserburgh - Aberdeen service when seen at Dyce on July 14, 1964. Michael Mensing.

Date: 13th June 1981

Set number: 34

Met-Camm and Cravens DMUs in Norwich station on 13 June 1981. Left to right are sets 94, 58 and 34. One of the Cravens sets might be 51269/56469, which formed the 16.45 to Peterborough. Lewis Bevan.

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