Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp / Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30469
Diagram: 532
19/06/58 | New to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
w/e 31/01/59 | Transferred to | 34B (Hornsey) | |
Apr-60 | Transferred to | 34G (Finsbury Park) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | FP | |
4w/e 27/03/77 | Transferred to | NR (Norwich) | |
Dec-83 | Depot code change | NC | |
04/08/84 | Transferred to | LN (Lincoln) | |
28/09/86 | To departmental stock | LN (Lincoln) | |
04/10/87 | Transferred to | CA (Cambridge) | |
10/05/88 | Withdrawn from | CA (Cambridge) |
51260 - original number
977453 - from Sep-86 (departmental stock)
Driver Training / Route Learner From 9/86 to 5/88.
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
51260 | 56418 | As delivered to 40A - 19th June 1958 | |||||||
51260 | 56448 | Noted 18/08/69 - at Cambridge1 | |||||||
51260 | 56448 | Noted 25/08/69 - at Peterborough1 | |||||||
51260 | 56425 | Noted 05/04/71 - in GN suburban area1 | |||||||
51260 | 56416 | Noted 27/05/72 - at Ipswich2 | |||||||
51260 | 56455 | Noted 21/06/75 - on 0925 Skegness-Grantham with 56115 + 51279 | |||||||
51260 | 56429 | Noted 10/08/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | |||||||
51260 | 56421 | Noted 03/01/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | |||||||
51260 | 56421 | Noted 07/02/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | |||||||
51260 | 56447 | Noted 30/10/76 - LCGB The Greater London & Southminster Railtour 56429 + 51471 / 56447 + 51260 | |||||||
51260 | 56447 | Noted 25/11/76 - on Cambridge depot3 | |||||||
66 | 51260 | 56435 | Noted 05/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | ||||||
66 | 51260 | 56432 | Noted 11/03/78 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | ||||||
66 | 51260 | 56432 | Noted 24/05/78 - at Norwich3 | ||||||
66 | 51260 | 56432 | Noted 17/06/78 - at Norwich3 | ||||||
66 | 51260 | 56432 | Listed at NR - Autumn 1978 | ||||||
51260 | 56467 | Noted 30/08/1979 - At Cambridge Station4 | |||||||
51260 | 56436 | Noted 01/03/80 - on 08.50 Norwich – Yarmouth5 | |||||||
66 | 51260 | 56413 | Noted 09/09/81 | ||||||
66 | 51260 | 56413 | Noted 02/10/81 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | ||||||
51260 | 56130 | Noted 28th August 1982 | |||||||
51260 | 54440 | Noted 07/03/86 | |||||||
51260 | 54440 | Noted 20/07/86 | |||||||
51260 | 54440 | Noted circa 09/19866 | |||||||
977453 | 977454 | Noted circa 11/1986 - Route Learner6 | |||||||
977453 | 977454 | Listed at - 1989 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Ipswich Transport Society
3: Gerald Brown
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Phil Shatford
6: Eddie Knorn
Cravens set 66 (E51260 closest) at Brundall on 27/8/79. Steve Davies Collection.
Cravens Class 105 Set no. 66, E51260 leading E56413 departing Norwich on 9th September 1981 as the 12.05 to Sheringham. The diagrams for these units involved considerable distances and on this date set 66 worked the 11.04 Yarmouth - Norwich, 12.05 to Sheringham and back followed by the 16.45 Norwich - Peterborough and 19.15 Peterborough - Cambridge. Gerard Fletcher.
A Cravens set in York station on Juune 17, 1985, formed of E51260 + 54442. John Carter.
51260 and 54440 depart from Sheffield with a service for Retford on the 7th March 1986. Dennis Taylor.
977453 (51260) + 977454 (54440). Note 'ROWNTREE HALT' in the destination blind. To the left can be seen E53369. At Snailwell, 17.12.88. Nicholas Youngman.
The 2-car class 105 'Cravens' DMU sets were synonymous with East Anglia in the BR era as Norwich Thorpe depot had a large allocation. This scene on December 31, 1982 depicts an afternoon gathering of the class at Ipswich where five Norwich sets are captured line a breast but only four were placed conveniently side by side. Set 61 in the platform with people boarding was working 2R22 the 12.52 via the East Suffolk line to Lowestoft. The line up left to right comprises; set 31. 53375+54468, set 52. 51299+54429, set 66. 51260+54130, set 61. 51290+54462, and 51478 on the very left. Adrian Nicholls.
A Class 105 DMU formed of Lincoln vehicles 54440 and 51260 in Sheffield station on 26 July 1986. A Met-Camm is in the platform to the left. Keith Miller.
Keith has noted Class 105 Departmental DMU TDB977453, DMUs 53026, 54026, 54039 and 53005 in this view of Lincoln depot on 12 July 1987. In the platform on the left are the two departmental 100s: 975539 + 975349 and 975637 + 975664; it looks like the Cravens is next in that line, presumably its partner is 977454. Keith Miller.