Vehicle 56480
Class 105
Builder: Cravens
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30504
Diagram: 549
Allocations
| 14/05/59 | New to | 61A (Kittybrewster) | |
| w/e 06/06/59 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| Apr-66 | Transferred to | 61A (Kittybrewster) | |
| 3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 62B (Dundee) | |
| May-68 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| 4w/e 04/11/72 | Transferred to | 64B (Haymarket) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | HA | |
| 12/06/77 | Transferred to | NR (Norwich) | |
| 31/05/81 | Withdrawn from | NR (Norwich) |
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 51491 | 56480 | As delivered to 61A - 14th May 1959 | |||||||
| 51477 | 56480 | Noted 11/09/71 - on Hamilton depot1 | |||||||
| 51 | 51491 | 56480 | Listed at 66C - 1972 | ||||||
| 51479 | 56480 | Noted 01/06/1974 - at Edinburgh2 | |||||||
| 51798 | 56480 | Noted 01/06/1974 - at Edinburgh 2 | |||||||
| 51474 | 56480 | 51484 | Noted 31/12/75 - in Edinburgh Waverley1 | ||||||
| 51481 | 56480 | Noted 05/09/76 - on Haymarket depot3 | |||||||
| 51484 | 56480 | Transfer to NR - 12/06/77 - from ScR | |||||||
| 60 | 51484 | 56480 | Noted 08/07/77 - at Bury St Edmunds, 51484 still with SC prefix3 | ||||||
| 55 | 51265 | 56480 | Noted 06/03/78 - at Bury St Edmunds3 | ||||||
| 52 | 51267 | 56480 | Noted 06/08/78 - at Norwich3 | ||||||
| 51266 | 56480 | Noted 09/02/79 - at Norwich3 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
Images:
24th July 1979
Set number: 65
Class 105 DMU set 65 (E56480 + E51261) arriving into March station on 24 July 1979. Brian Daniels.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 23rd May 1959
Sc51491 (and presumably Sc56480) at Eastfield depot on the 23rd May 1959. The pair were listed as new to Kittybrewster (61A) on the 14th of that month, then transferred soon afterwards to Hamilton (66C). Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 30th October 1980
The 10.26 Doncaster - Cambridge dmu service, one of three southbound passenger services still serving the joint line in 1980. The setting is Murrow West. This was at one time the site of a flat crossing with the M&GN Peterborough - Wisbech - Sutton Bridge line on which, until its closure in 1959, the hamlet of Murrow had the extravagant facilities of a further station named Murrow East. On 30th October 1980 motoring past are Lincoln based Class 114 Derby 'heavyweight' set E50046 + E56026 leading Norwich allocated Cravens Class 105 unit E56480 + E51261 (set 65). Gerard Fletcher.