Vehicle 56116
Class 105
Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30281
Diagram: 526
Allocations
| 02/11/56 | New to | 53C (Hull Springhead) | |
| 30/11/58 | Transferred to | 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) | - (53C closed) |
| Jan-60 | Depot code change | 50C | |
| 4w/e 09/10/65 | On loan to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| w/e 16/10/65 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| 3w/e 27/11/65 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
| 16/06/68 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| 27/12/69 | Transferred to | 34G (Finsbury Park) | |
| 4w/e 30/05/70 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NO | |
| Sep-73 | Depot code change | NR | |
| w/e 26/10/80 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) | |
| 22/11/82 | Withdrawn from | LO (Longsight) |
Disposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50361 | 56116 | As delivered to 53C - 2nd November 1956 | |||||||
| 50361 | 56116 | Transfer to 31A - 4w/e 09/10/65 - On loan from NER | |||||||
| 50361 | 56116 | Transfer to 50C - 3w/e 27/11/65 | |||||||
| 50361 | 56116 | Transfer to 34G - Nov-69 | |||||||
| 51108 | 56116 | Noted 04/1971 - at Birmingham New Street1 | |||||||
| 51108 | 56116 | Noted 12/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
| 50418 | 56116 | Noted 03/09/71 - at Norwich3 | |||||||
| 46 | 50359 | 56116 | Noted circa e1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 79 | 51223 | 56116 | Noted 22/10/72 - at Ipswich4 | ||||||
| 49 | 50365 | 56116 | Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 51278 | 56116 | Noted 20/05/73 | |||||||
| 59 | 51278 | 56116 | Noted 21/07/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 59 | 51278 | 56116 | Noted 08/12/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 51 | 50249 | 56116 | Noted 13/04/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 51 | 50249 | 56116 | Noted 19/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 51283 | 56116 | Noted 03/08/74 - at Birmingham New Street 1 | |||||||
| 62 | 51283 | 56116 | Noted 16/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 62 | 51283 | 56116 | Noted 11/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 62 | 51283 | 56116 | Listed at NR - 19/07/75 | ||||||
| 58 | 51282 | 56116 | Noted 19/06/76 | ||||||
| 64 | 51478 | 56116 | Noted 10/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 64 | 51476 | 56116 | Noted 24/08/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 64 | 51478 | 56116 | Noted 24/09/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 64 | 51478 | 56116 | Noted 13/02/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
| 64 | 51257 | 56116 | Noted 17/03/77 - on Cambridge depot2 | ||||||
| 51294 | 56116 | Noted 05/03/78 - at Colchester5 | |||||||
| 56 | 51256 | 56116 | Noted 03/08/78 - at Norwich2 | ||||||
| 56 | 51256 | 56116 | Listed at NR - Autumn 1978 | ||||||
| 51124 | 56116 | Noted 01/03/1980 - at Norwich Thorpe5 | |||||||
| 51256 | 56116 | Noted 01/03/1980 - at Norwich Thorpe5 | |||||||
| 56 | 51256 | 56116 | Noted 06/09/1980 - Fakenham & Dereham Railway Society GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour 56116 + 51256 with 56125 + 51271 | ||||||
| 51256 | 56116 | Noted 12/09/1980 - on Norwich depot5 | |||||||
| 51124 | 56116 | Transfer to LO - w/e 26/10/80 | |||||||
| 51124 | 56116 | Noted Apr-81 - in Manchester Piccadilly5 | |||||||
| 51124 | 56116 | Noted circa 01/19826 | |||||||
| 51124 | 56116 | Noted 22/01/1983 - on Longsight depot, withdrawn5 |
Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Ipswich Transport Society
5: Martin Lumley
6: Eddie Knorn
Images:
4th August 1975
Set number: 62
A summer's day at Norwich. Class 03 shunter No. 03029 and a first generation Class 105 DMU (set 62, believed to be E56116) keep each other company at Norwich depot on Monday 4th August 1975. Photo taken on day two of the "Secret Five" mystery tours: five day trips on five consecutive days to mystery destinations from Weston-super-Mare and other picking-up points in the Bristol area. Tom Harper.
6th September 1980
Set number: 56
Two Class 105 DMUs, vehicles 56116 + 51256 / 56125 + 51271, are seen with the The Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society "GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour" at Greetwell Junction, as the train came back from it's trip to Bardney, on 6 September 1980. Paul Cooke.
6th September 1980
Set number: 56
The Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society "GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour" is seen at Boultham Junction, on Lincoln's once lovely Avoiding line, on 6 September 1980. It was formed of a pair of Class 105 Cravens-built two-car DMUs, 56116 + 51256 / 56125 + 51271. Paul Cooke.
6th September 1980
Set number: 56
The Fakenham and District Railway Society GN & GE Joint Freight Lines railtour during the photo stop at Postland on 6 September 1980. In view is 56116. Phil Bevan.
6th September 1980
Set number: 56
On 6 September 1980, the Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour ran with a pair Cravens dmu sets. Nearest the camera at March is 56116, then should come 51256, 56125 and 51271. Having visited Wisbech, the tour then ran to Sleaford, Bardney, Shirebrook and Lincoln before returning to March. Jeremy Chapter.
6th September 1980
Set number: 56
On 6 September 1980 the Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society ran their "GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour" using a pair of Class 105 Cravens-built two-car diesel units, seen here at Wisbech Goods. The full formation as 56116 + 51256 + 56125 + 51271. Jeremy Chapter.
April 1982
Manchester Victoria and Guide Bridge Driver Eddy Bright. When I took this on the route learning DMU to Toton, through the cab window of 56116 in April 1982, he was a Guide Bridge driver. It was great fun to work with this man, you can tell by his face that it was usually smiling. Arnie Furniss.
April 1982
Guide Bridge Driver Bob Malpas at the controls of 56116 that we used for a few days on the route learning trips to Toton. He went on to greater things, he trained me on class 158s when I became a driver, which included using one of the first 'simulators', a complete waste of time and money. Driving one on the West coast main line North of Preston taught me all I needed to know about 158s and gave me an appreciation of those units! Arnie Furniss.
April 1982
Reflections on Ernie Nield. Ernie started his railway career at Macclesfield in the dim and distant past when there was a depot there. You can tell by his face that he was of a cheery disposition. Taken through the window of the driver's compartment of DMU 56116 in April 1982, somewhere near Chinley, on our way back home to Guide Bridge from route learning at Toton. This used to be the first class compartment on this unit, it's full of first class railwaymen here! Arnie Furniss.
April 1982
Three weeks road learning at Toton, most of it on single unit DB975042 until it disappeared mysteriously on the last week. Here Guide Bridge Driver Norman 'Nobby' Robinson is seen here at the helm of the replacement 2 car unit, 56116 and 51124. Taken somewhere in the Hope Valley. Note the traditional brew can lid on the window sill! Arnie Furniss.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 25th August 1977
Set number: 64
A Cravens 2-car (DMBS E51257 trailing and DTCL E56116), has arrived at Leicester on the 15.40 from Peterborough and will form the 17.30 return. 25 August 1977. Kevin Lane.
Date: 6th September 1980
Set number: 49
Bardney station in Lincolnshire was only open for occasional sugar beet traffic by 1980. On 6 September of that year, the Fakenham & Dereham Railway Society ran a railtour which visited the branch. Another railtour in February 1981 was the last passenger train to reach this point where passenger trains had been withdrawn in 1970. Car 51271 is nearest the camera, paired with 56125, behind is 51256 and 56116. Jeremy Chapter.
Date: 6th September 1980
Set number: 49
Two Class 105 DMUs, vehicles 51271 + 56125 / 51256 + 56116, are seen with the The Fakenham and Dereham Railway Society "GE/GN Joint Freight Lines Railtour" at Greetwell Junction, as the train came back from it's trip to Bardney, on 6 September 1980. Paul Cooke.
Date: 17th June 1981
Class 100/105 hybrid E51124 + E56116 at Guide Bridge on 17 June 1981. Stuart Mackay Collection.