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Set 49


These formations have been noted:

51489 56478 Listed at 66C - 1972
50365 56317 Noted circa 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56116 Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56454 Noted 24/05/73 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56454 Noted 16/06/73 - at Thetford1
50365 56114 Noted 25/10/73 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56114 Noted 06/03/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56436 Noted 27/05/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56435 Noted 01/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56435 Noted 01/11/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56125 Noted 20/03/75 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56125 Noted 22/05/75
50365 56125 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
50365 56125 Noted 14/08/75 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50365 56436 Noted 13/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51271 56468 Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
51271 56436 Noted 22/02/79 - at Norwich1
51271 56185 Noted 15/07/79
51271 56125 Noted 09/09/81
51271 54139 Noted circa 03/19842
51271 54463 Noted circa 04/19852
51269 54463 Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
51271 54463 Listed at NC - Dec-85
51271 54463 Noted 18/01/1986 - at Colchester3
51271 54463 Noted 12/04/19862

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Robert Chilton

Class 105 DMU at Colchester

Unknown date

Cravens DMU set 49 in Colchester station with a Norwich service, circa early/mid-1980s. Mike Bunker.

Class 105 DMU at Barndley

6th September 1980

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 Another railtour in February 1981 was the last passenger train to reach this point where passenger trains had been withdrawn in 1970.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, other vehicles included 56116, 51256 and 56125. Jeremy Chapter.

Class 105 DMU at Lowestoft

Unknown date

A Class 105 DMU at Lowestoft, c.1981, heading for Ipswich. Class 101 DMC E50235 is on the left. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Lowestoft

7th July 1981

The 12:29 to Norwich awaiting departure from Lowestoft station on 7 July 1981. It is formed of 56125 + 51271 (set 49) and 56188 + 51270. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Yarmouth

21st August 1981

56125 is on the rear of set 49 when seen at Yarmouth on the 21st August 1981. Chris Lings.

Class 105 DMU at Ipswich

9th September 1981

Ipswich and Cravens Class 105 E51271 + E56125 forming Norwich set no. 49. The train is the 06.58 Leicester to Harwich Parkeston Quay which I'd travelled on from March on 9/9/81. Later in the day this unit was seen forming the 14.50 Ipswich to Stamford service. Some late 70s fashion still in evidence here, even if it is 1981. Gerard Fletcher.

Class 105 DMU at Cambridge

22nd October 1984

A pair of Cravens - sets 45 and 49 - at Cambridge on the night of 22 October 1984. Chris Thorp.

Class 105 DMU at Felixstowe branch

May 1985

A good load for this 2-car Cravens DMU set, arriving at Felixstowe from Ipswich in May 1985. Kevin Lane Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Norwich

8th February 1986

Cravens Class 105 DMU set 49 (54463 + 51271) waits to depart Norwich for Great Yarmouth, possibly 8-2-86. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

Class 105 DMU at Kings Lynn

21st February 1986

Cravens DMU set 49 with E51271 closest in Kings Lynn station waiting to depart on a service to Ely on 21 February 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Whittlesea

15th March 1986

Even in 1986 some of the cross country services from Cambridge to Birmingham were still formed of classic dmus. On March 15 1M66, the 08.52 ex Cambridge, is seen here arriving at Whittlesea with a four car formation of Cravens set 49 (E54463 + E51271) leading a 2 car Metro-Cammell Class 101. Naturally we chose to sit in the leading set for maximum good vibrations! Photo by Philip Mott. Gerard Fletcher.

Class 105 DMU at Peterborough

15th March 1986

At Peterborough set 49 makes a healthy exhaust as it departs for Birmingham - you can almost hear that great Cravens cacophany. Taken on March 15th, 1986, by the end of July 1986, the number of Cravens sets in service at Norwich had reduced to just seven, the set seen here E51271 + E54463 along with six other sets went to Lincoln for a brief reprieve. Photo by Philip Mott. Gerard Fletcher.


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