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Vehicle 51482

Class 105

Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp / Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30503
Diagram: 548

Allocations

01/04/59	New to	61A (Kittybrewster)
w/e 06/06/59	Transferred to	66C (Hamilton)
May-73	Depot code change	HN
4w/e 29/06/74	Stored S.
w/e 13/07/74	Reinstated	HN (Hamilton)
17/05/75	Transferred to	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
30/04/77	Transferred to	GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
26/07/81	Transferred to	NR (Norwich)
Nov-81	Withdrawn

Notes

23/10/81 - withdrawn vehicles noted on Norwich depot with parts removed: 50382, 50383 (damaged), 51254, 51274 and 51482 (before official withdrawal)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	51482	56471		As delivered to 61A - 1st April 1959
43	51482	56471		Listed at 66C - 1972
	51482	56471		Noted 29/07/1972 - at Ayr¹
	51482	56471		Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central²
18/19	51482	56463	51485	Listed at Hamilton - circa Aug-74 - Two brake vehicles, one carrying 18 the other 19.
	51482	56387		Noted 08/09/75 - at Brough³
	51482	56472		Noted 26/10/75 - at Brough³
	51482	59527	50585	Noted 01/11/75 - at Brough³
	51482	50557		Noted 20/11/75 - at Brough³
168	51482	56471		Noted 11/12/75 - at Bury St Edmunds on out and back turn from Cambridge, set number only on 51482⁴
	51482	56427		Noted 02/07/81 - on Norwich depot⁴

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Gerald Brown

Images:

17th July 1977

Fresh from the paint shop, Class 105 DMBS E51482 is seen in Doncaster Works on July 17, 1977. Rex Holt.

16th June 1978

Class 105 E51482 Edinburgh Waverley 16 June 1978. One of the regular schools excursions which used to come up from the North East at this time in the run up to the summer holidays. Most like this one terminated at Edinburgh but some went on to Stirling or over to Fife in order to take the kids across the Forth Rail Bridge. Alistair Ness.

16th June 1978

E51482 leads an eight car Class 105/101 formation into Edinburgh Waverley on 16 June 1978. This was one of the regular schools excursions which used to come up from the North East at this time in the run up to the summer holidays. Most like this one terminated at Edinburgh but some went on to Stirling or over to Fife in order to take the kids across the Forth Rail Bridge. Alistair Ness.

4th November 1978

Class 105 DMBS E51482 paired with a Class 101 and with a Class 101 two-car on the rear seen in Middlesbrough station on 4 November 1978. Saltburn is on the destination blind. Michael Mensing.

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