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: 30282
Diagram: 525
05/07/57 | New to | 53C (Hull Springhead) | |
30/11/58 | Transferred to | 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) | - (53C closed) |
Jan-60 | Depot code change | 50C | |
May-71 | Transferred to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
Oct-71 | Transferred to | 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
3w/e 31/03/72 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NO | |
Sep-73 | Depot code change | NR | |
07/01/77 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
w/e 27/08/78 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
Sep-82 | Withdrawn |
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
50389 | 56144 | As delivered to 53C - 5th July 1957 | |||||||
50389 | 56144 | Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster1 | |||||||
50389 | 56141 | Transfer to 32A - 3w/e 31/03/72 | |||||||
60 | 50389 | 56141 | Noted circa mid-1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
60 | 50389 | 56316 | Noted circa late 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
60 | 50389 | 56119 | Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
35 | 50389 | 56119 | Noted 05/05/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
35 | 50389 | 56119 | Noted 01/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
35 | 50389 | 56137 | Noted 13/02/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
35 | 50389 | 56137 | Noted 15/03/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
35 | 50389 | 56137 | Noted 20/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
35 | 50389 | 56137 | Noted 26/10/74 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
35 | 50389 | 56469 | Noted 16/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
35 | 50389 | 56469 | Listed at NR - 19/07/75 | ||||||
35 | 50389 | 56124 | Noted 31/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | ||||||
50389 | 56442 | Noted 13/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
50389 | 56456 | Transfer to TS - 07/01/77 | |||||||
50389 | 56456 | 51119 | Noted 11/04/1977 - 2D66, 07.52 Wolverhampton to Chester, extended to Rhyl3 | ||||||
50389 | 50793 | Noted circa 08/19803 | |||||||
50389 | 50793 | Noted 03/01/1981 - Worked 1512 to Bolton from Blackburn4 | |||||||
50389 | 50793 | Noted circa 06/19813 | |||||||
50389 | 50793 | Noted circa 01/19823 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Shayne Lewis
A former Eastern Region Cravens Class 105 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50389, complete with a paraffin tail lamp, was stood in platform 3 at Preston station with a well-filled two-car Manchester Victoria to Blackpool North service on the evening of Friday August 24th 1979. Most of the local Cravens sets in the Preston area were power-twin units, but this set was a power-trailer, with Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) M56456 leading. Martyn Hilbert.
Ex-Eastern Region Cravens Class 105 power/trailer two-car DMU with DMBS M50389 trailing, was passing over the A6 trunk road as it departed from Bamber Bridge with the 14.30 Preston to Colne service on May 29th 1982. The bridge is the far distance spanning the East Lancashire line has a historic claim to fame - it was the first Motorway bridge to span a railway in the UK, the first section of Motorway (The 8.25 mile Preston Bypass and the first part of the M6) opening in December 1958. Unfortunately the original red brick bridge visible here was radically altered in the 1990's when the M6 was widened. Martyn Hilbert.