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Vehicle 56429 / 54429


Class 105

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

Allocations

08/08/58 New to 31A (Cambridge)
3w/e 04/07/59 Transferred to 34B (Hornsey)
Apr-60 Transferred to 34G (Finsbury Park)
May-73Depot code changeFP
w/e 13/03/77 Transferred to GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
26/07/81 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
Dec-83Depot code changeNC
07/10/84 Transferred to LN (Lincoln)
07/07/85 Transferred to NC (Norwich)
01/06/86 Transferred to LN (Lincoln)
08/06/86 Stored S. LN (Lincoln)
22/06/86 Reinstated LN (Lincoln)
12/10/86 Withdrawn from LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56429 - original number
54429 - from Jan-85 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51271 56429 As delivered to 31A - 8th August 1958
51278 56429 Noted 03/09/71 - at Cambridge1
51263 56429 Noted 01/01/1972 - at Kings Cross2
51271 56429 Noted 15/06/74 - in Kings Cross1
51271 56429 Noted 16/06/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
50376 56429 Noted 04/08/74 - on Cambridge depot3
50375 56429 Noted 03/1975 - at Kings Cross 2
50376 56429 Noted 08/03/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
50376 56429 Noted 01/06/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51260 56429 Noted 10/08/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
51261 56429 Noted 06/02/76 - on Cambridge depot3
56429 51471 Noted 30/10/1976 - LCGB The Greater London & Southminster Railtour 56429-51471+56447-51260
51471 56429 Noted 25/11/76 - on Cambridge depot3
56429 Noted 27/01/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle3
51276 56429 Noted 11/04/77 - at Newcastle1
51282 56429 Noted 30/05/81
47 51295 56429 Noted 09/09/81
51255 56429 Noted circa 04/19824
58 51255 56429 Noted 28/10/82
58 51255 56429 Noted 24/08/19834
58 51255 54429 Noted circa 01/19844
58 51255 54429 Noted 10/04/84 - at Norwich3
51299 54429 Transfer to NR - 07/07/85 - from LN
52 51299 54429 Noted 28/08/85 - at Norwich3
52 51265 54429 Listed at Norwich - circa Nov-85
52 51299 54429 Listed at NC - Dec-85
52 51299 54429 Noted 15/02/19864
51299 54429 Noted 28/10/1986 - at Ely on 08.45 Cambridge to Leicester.5

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Nicholas Youngman

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Gateshead East

30th May 1981

Cars E56429 E51282 are seen at Gateshead East approaching Newcastle with a service from South Shields on 30/5/81, the last day of British Rail services on the South Tyneside branch prior to conversion to the Tyneside Metro system. Against the backdrop of Newcastle's skyline, a Class 47 can be seen approaching the station on the ECML. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 105 DMU at South Shields

30th May 1981

A Class 105 (E56429 E51282) arriving at South Shields from Newcastle, on 30/05/1981, the last day of BR services prior to conversion to Tyneside Metro system. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Mistley

April 1983

Set number: 58

A Cravens unit enters Mistley station, working between Harwich and Manningtree in April 1983. The signal box was later moved to the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel & Wakes Colne. The DTC closest is possibly 56429. Kevin Lane.

Class 105 DMU at Ely

19th October 1985

Evidence of imminent resignalling is obvious in this photograph at Ely North taken on 19 October 1985 as a class 105 led by E54429 arrives at its destination. The light had all but caved in by this time but looking at the slides of classes 20, 31, 37 and 45 I took at March it had cleared by the time we reached there. Peter Tandy.

Class 105 DMU at Doncaster

12th June 1986

A Cravens set (54429 closest) and a Class 141 outside Doncaster Works on 12-6-86. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 9th September 1981

Set number: 47

Many people disliked the Cravens Class 105s intensely because of their noisy ride. To me this just added to the 'experience'. To get a Cravens twin with the needle off the clock (over 70mph) was exhilarating to say the least and also quite commonplace. Here Norwich set no. 47 (E51295 + E56429) awaits its next duty on September 9th 1981. Gerard Fletcher.

DMU

Date: 28th October 1982

Set number: 58

On a very bright Thursday October 28th 1982, the 11.47 Peterborough - Cambridge service pauses at Whittlesea with (left to right) Cravens Class 105 sets 58 (E51255/E56429) and 47 (E56135/E51295). Gerard Fletcher.

DMU

Date: 31st December 1982

Set number: 31

The 2-car class 105 'Cravens' DMU sets were synonymous with East Anglia in the BR era as Norwich Thorpe depot had a large allocation. This scene on December 31, 1982 depicts an afternoon gathering of the class at Ipswich where five Norwich sets are captured line a breast but only four were placed conveniently side by side. Set 61 in the platform with people boarding was working 2R22 the 12.52 via the East Suffolk line to Lowestoft. The line up left to right comprises; set 31. 53375+54468, set 52. 51299+54429, set 66. 51260+54130, set 61. 51290+54462, and 51478 on the very left. Adrian Nicholls.

DMU

Date: 27th September 1986

A scene at York station on 27 September 1986 - with one of the distinctive-looking Cravens units. The unit was about to work the 16.42 local service to Doncaster - vehicle numbers E51299 and E54429. The station staff stage-left had just blown his whistle, and on this occasion I even primed my 'ghetto blaster' and made a recording of the departure: https://soundcloud.com/sound-vision-10193594/class-105-2-car-dmu-e51299-e54429-leaves-york-on-a-local-service-to-doncaster-27sep1986. Chris McKee.

DMU

Date: 23rd April 1987

A Cravens unit stands at Lincoln Central on 23rd April 1987. I rarely noted DMU numbers but on this occasion I recorded this unit as nos. 51299 and 54429. Andrew Walker.