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Vehicle 56100


Class 100

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30279
Diagram: 537

Allocations

The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 50345 during the unknown period are:

Jul-57 New to 9A (Longsight) - on loan from 64A
Jul-57 On loan to 6G (Llandudno Junction)
Aug-57 On loan to 9A (Longsight)
Sep-57 On loan to 5D (Cockshute)
w/e 02/11/57 Ex-loan back to 64A (St Margarets)

Then the allocations for 56100 are:

c. summer-58 Transferred to Leith Central
Nov-59Depot code change64H
2w/e 26/10/62 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
2w/e 08/06/63 Transferred to 67A (Corkerhill)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
26/05/68 On loan to 31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 06/07/68 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 28/06/69 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
5w/e 30/08/69 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
4w/e 30/05/70 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
22/02/78 Withdrawn from NR (Norwich)

Notes

24/05/78 - withdrawn vehicles noted on Norwich depot: 51114, 51125, 51126, 56094, 56100, 79159

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50345 56100 As delivered to 9A - July 1957 - on loan from 64A
50345 56100 Noted 16th September 1957
50345 56100 Transfer to 64A - Oct-57
50345 56100 Transfer to 66C - 2w/e 26/10/62
50345 56100 Transfer to 64H - 3w/e 30/04/66
51126 56100 Transfer to 31A - 5w/e 30/08/69
51274 56100 Noted 23/06/71 - at Bury St Edmunds1
70 51123 56100 Noted 10/03/73 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51123 56100 Noted 20/05/73
40 50167 56100 Noted 25/08/73 - at Bury St Edmunds1
65 51114 56100 Noted 22/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds1
65 51114 56100 Noted 17/04/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51114 56100 Noted 18/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds1
65 51114 56100 Noted 17/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds1
51114 56100 Noted 03/1975 - at Norwich 2
64 51478 56100 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
45 50368 56100 Noted 23/06/76 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50 51266 56100 Noted 11/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50 51266 56100 Noted 22/03/77 - at Bury St Edmunds1
50 51266 56100 Noted 03/06/77 - at Bury St Edmunds1

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Peter Wallwork

Images:

Class 100 DMU at Cromer

17th June 1971

Dmu car E56100 is reversing at Cromer (formerly the M&GNR station of Cromer Beach, as is still shown on the nameboard) on its journey with the 13.52 from Norwich to Sheringham on 17 June 1971. Behind the train is the tower of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul. Tom Burnham.

Class 100 DMU at Cambridge

12th September 1975

Set number: 65

Norwich set 65 (class 100 Gloucester cars 56100 and 51114) are waiting at Cambridge to form the 10.56 to Ely on 12 September 1975. The "FRI 12" notice in the cab window refers to the unit's next exam date, implying that the set would return to Norwich Crown Point by the end of the day. Jeremy Chapter.

Class 100 DMU at Peterborough

3rd August 1976

Set number: 45

E56100, at Peterborough on 3/8/76 apparently heading for Norwich. Signs in the cab windows proclaim it's set 45 (the other vehicle appears to be a Cravens). David Underwood adds: "'4 WED' in the windscreen reflects the method by which Norwich Depot advised when the unit was next due for maintenance at Norwich, i.e. the unit had to be placed on a diagram that finished at Norwich on that day." Ian Francis.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 17th June 1971

Trains crossing at North Walsham, 17 June 1971. On the right, E51278 heads a 4-car formation on the 15.36 Norwich-Cromer, as the signalman exchanges single line tokens. On the left, E56100 heads the waiting 15.30 Sheringham-Norwich. Tom Burnham.

DMU

Date: unknown

A 6-car formation seen at Norwich, from left to right is 56307, 51111, 51115, 56100, 51282 (105), 56300. Circa early/mid-1970s. Tim Stubbs.