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Vehicle 56471


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

01/04/59 New to 61A (Kittybrewster)
w/e 06/06/59 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
May-73Depot code changeHN
4w/e 29/06/74 Stored S.
17/05/75 Reinstated BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
03/10/82 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
13/03/83 Withdrawn from NR (Norwich)

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51482 56471 As delivered to 61A - 1st April 1959
51489 56471 Noted 18/05/63
43 51482 56471 Listed at 66C - 1972
51482 56471 Noted 29/07/1972 - at Ayr1
51482 56471 Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central2
50372 56471 Noted 08/09/75 - at Brough3
168 51482 56471 Noted 11/12/75 - at Bury St Edmunds on out and back turn from Cambridge, set number only on 514824
50373 56471 Noted 23/12/76 - on 13:26 Doncaster-Hull3
51492 56471 Noted Mar-77 - at Hull3
50375 56471 Noted 03/09/77 - at Doncaster4
50380 56471 Noted 11/11/82 - at Norwich4

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Gerald Brown

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Hull Paragon station

23rd September 1978

E56471 in Hull Paragon station. No details came with the image, but it's probably the HLPG 'City of Hull Tour' on the 23rd September 1978. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Doncaster

14th July 1979

A Cravens and Met-Camm DMU formation at Doncaster on 14 July 1979. DTCL E56471 is closest. Dave Warby Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 18th May 1963

Sc51489 + Sc56471 in the rain at Yoker Ferry on 18/5/63. Hamish Stevenson.

DMU

Date: 12th September 1975

Taken with a very cheap Dixons own-brand (Prinz) camera on Boots slide film, this picture shows the 15.48 Hull to Scarborough (the class 104 BRCW 4-car unit on the left) and an ex-Scottish Cravens class 105 Driving Trailer (E56471) on the right. Taken on 12 September 1975. Jeremy Chapter.