Class 112/3 Cravens 2-car DMUs
Non-Passenger Use
No vehicles entered departmental service but three mechanical vehicles were resold by the scrapyards for further use.
BSC Shotton
The Bird Group sold two DMBSs - 51691 and 51692 - from their Long Marston scrapyard in 1971 to the British Steel Corporation. They would be used at their Shotton Steel Works in Deeside, North Wales, which had an extensive internal rail network.
There they became part of the Permanent Way train, labelled as Permanent Way 1 and Permanent Way 2. They were noted in a grey livery on 7 March 1982[1] and were possibly broken up there in 1984.[2]
The image shows 51692 on 15 February 1982, it looks as if it has been out of use for some time and has had the underframe equipment removed. Steve Large.
Offshore
The bodyshell of DMCL 51729 would be resold by A.King and the rear half would end up as a store on an offshore gas platform. This was located on the Hewett Gas Field, 25 miles east of Great Yarmouth, where it sat on the unmanned platform 52/5A.
The front half of the bodyshell would find use as a paint store in the yard of a warehouse adjacent to the disused Great Yarmouth South Town station. It was painted grey, although chipped paint revealed that this car had once been blue.
It still remained there in 1981, now painted black.