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Vehicle 56449 / 54449

Class 105

BR Diagram 533

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30470
Diagram: 533

Allocations

29/11/58 New to 40A (Lincoln)
2w/e 31/05/59 Transferred to 34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73Depot code changeFP
2w/e 01/05/77 Transferred to SF (Stratford)
07/07/85 Withdrawn from SF (Stratford)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56449 - original number
54449 - from 11/04/83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51291 56449 As delivered to 40A - 29th November 1958
50367 56449 Noted 31/03/73 - at Ipswich1
51270 56449 Noted 07/07/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51270 56449 Noted 10/08/1974 - at Kings Cross3
51220 56449 Noted 18/08/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51281 56449 Noted 09/1974 - at Kings Cross3
51270 56449 Noted 10/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51270 56449 Noted 10/12/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51270 56449 Noted 09/09/1975 - at Kings Cross 3
51275 56449 Noted 21/02/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51275 56449 Noted 28/02/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51472 56449 Noted 03/07/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51294 56449 Noted 07/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
51258 56449 Noted 20/01/77 - on Cambridge depot2
56449 Noted 17/02/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle2
56449 Noted 24/02/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle2
56449 Noted 03/03/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle2
50365 56449 Noted 01/07/78 - at Stratford4
50368 56449 Noted 29/08/1979 - At Wickford Essex Bay Platform5
50362 56449 Noted 24/08/1982 - on Stratford depot4
53362 54449 Noted circa 07/19836
53362 54449 Noted 14/10/1983 - Romford with 10.23 to Upminster7
53362 54449 Noted circa 01/19846

Formation Sources
1: Ipswich Transport Society
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Martin Lumley
5: Shayne Lewis
6: Eddie Knorn
7: Alan N Walker

Images:

Inside a Class 105 DMU

1st August 1978

The interior of 56449 while at Southminster on the 1st of August 1978. Robert Chilton.

Class 105 DMU at Sudbury

circa August 1983

A view from the bufferstop at Sudbury station circa August 1983. In the station is a Class 105 DMU formed of E54449 + E53362 which was on a railtour named "The Great Eastern" that ran from London Liverpool Street. Stuart Mackay Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa August 1983

A Cravens DMU (E53362 + E54449) at Needham Market on a railtour named 'The Great Eastern'. The slide process date was August 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: circa August 1983

A Class 105 DMU (vehicles E53362 + E54449) on the "The Great Eastern" railtour in Sudbury station circa August 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: circa August 1983

A Class 105 DMU (vehicles E53362 + E54449) on the "The Great Eastern" railtour in Sudbury station circa August 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 3rd September 1983

Class 105 DMU comprising vehicles 53362 and 56449 about to leave Romford on 3 September 1983 with the 14.23 to Upminster. Robert28194.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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