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Vehicle 56121

Class 105

BR Diagram 526

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30281
Diagram: 526

Allocations

12/01/57 New to 53C (Hull Springhead)
30/11/58 Transferred to 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) - (53C closed)
Jan-60Depot code change50C
4w/e 09/10/65 On loan to 31A (Cambridge)
w/e 16/10/65 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 30/05/70 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
w/e 13/02/77 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
w/e 21/05/78 Transferred to GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78 Stored GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 08/10/78 Reinstated HT (Heaton)
31/05/81 Withdrawn from HT (Heaton)

Disposal

Preserved - moved by rail in Spring 1982 to the West Somerset Railway via Derby (for tyre turning), Bristol and Bridgewater - more details.

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50366 56121 As delivered to 53C - 12th January 1957
50366 56121 Transfer to 31A - 4w/e 09/10/65 - On loan from NER
50347 56121 Noted 06/03/1971 - at Birmingham New Street1
50347 56121 Noted 04/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds2
50347 56121 Noted 23/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51108 56121 Noted 01/09/71 - at Ipswich3
51108 56121 Noted 03/09/71 - at Lowestoft3
75 51213 56121 Noted circa e1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2
54 51274 56121 Noted circa late 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2
46 50359 56121 Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds2
34 50387 56121 Noted 09/06/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
34 50387 56121 Noted 11/08/73 - on a Norwich - Peterborough service with 50151 + 59091 + 59092 + 502442
50387 56121 Noted 18/08/1973 - at Peterborough1
34 50387 56121 Noted 27/12/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2
34 50387 56121 Noted 28/03/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
36 50382 56121 Noted 11/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
36 50382 56121 Noted 09/08/74 - at Parkeston Quay2
36 50382 56121 Noted 24/10/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
46 50359 56121 Noted 27/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
46 50359 56121 Noted 27/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
46 50359 56121 Noted 17/04/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2
47 50362 56121 Noted 23/11/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2
50373 56121 Noted 27/03/77 - in Doncaster Works4
51491 56121 Noted 21/08/77 - at Doncaster4
50373 56121 Noted 18/08/78 - on 11:15 Newcastle - Sunderland5
50229 56121 Noted 07/04/1979 - Newcastle Central4
50229 56121 Noted 31/08/1979 - Newcastle Central4
50253 56121 Noted 14/02/81 - at South Shields

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Gerald Brown
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Martin Lumley
5: Phil Shatford

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Peterborough

6th July 1974

Set number: 36

Class 105 E56121 Peterborough 6 July 1974. Another pic which has degraded over time and required an immense amount of photoshopping, and in reality could do with a lot more! Alistair Ness.

Class 105 DMU at Nuneaton

June 1976

Set number: 47

Class 105 set 47 (E56121 seems to be closest), with another set on the rear, at Nuneaton heading towards Leicester in June 1976. Stuart Mackay Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 14th February 1981

With just under four months remaining until closure for development of the Tyneside Metro system, cars E56367 E50154 E50253 E56121 await departure from South Shields on their return to Newcastle, 14/02/1981. Graeme Phillips Collection.

DMU

Date: 16th August 1986

Set number: 34

One of the rapidly dwindling Cravens built 2 car Class 105 units departs from Yarmouth Vauxhall with the Summer Saturday's only 1617 service for Norwich on 16 August 1986. Running as set NC 34 it is formed of DMBS E53366 and DTS E54421. Notice the brackets and fitting on the lower cab front where additional high power headlamps were fitted for a time, when allocated to SF, for working Romford to Upminster services. As E50366 it was allocated new to Hull Springhead depot (53C) on 12 January 1957 with its original partner E56121. It remained with the Eastern Region all its working life, except for a spell 'On Loan' to BY "to ease the electrical load during the power crisis" during February 1972. Allocated to Hull Springhead, BG, CA, NR, and SF, its final move was from SF back to NR (by now NC) on 24 March 1985. Lasting for just over a further eighteen months it was withdrawn on 12 October 1986 and scrapped by Mayer Newman at Snailwell. Nigel Mack.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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