Vehicle 50390
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: 30284
Diagram: 525
Allocations
| Jul-57 | New to | 9A (Longsight) | |
| Oct-57 | Transferred to | 6G (Llandudno Junction) | |
| Aug-58 | Transferred to | 18A (Toton) | |
| 4w/e 29/11/58 | Transferred to | 3E (Monument Lane) | |
| 4w/e 27/12/58 | Transferred to | 18A (Toton) | |
| 4w/e 29/12/62 | Transferred to | 15C (Leicester Midland) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 15A | |
| 2w/e 09/04/66 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | |
| 2w/e 10/09/66 | Transferred to | 16C (Derby Etches Park) | |
| 2w/e 12/08/67 | Transferred to | 1E (Bletchley) | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | BY | |
| Oct-81 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | - W from BY, may not have moved |
| Nov-81 | Withdrawn from | BY (Bletchley) | |
| circa Jan-82 | Reinstated | DY (Derby Etches Park) | |
| circa mid-82 | Withdrawn from | DY (Derby Etches Park) |
Notes
21/02/82 - Noted operating from DY in early 1982, no official re-instatement
Modifications
circa Dec-72 - AWS fitted
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50390 | 56145 | As delivered to 9A - July 1957 | |||||||
| 50390 | 56145 | Noted 19th September 1957 | |||||||
| 50390 | 56147 | Noted 02/09/67 - at Cambridge1 | |||||||
| BY385 | 50390 | 56149 | Noted circa 07/19712 | ||||||
| 50390 | 56145 | Noted 08/06/75 - on Bletchley depot1 | |||||||
| 50390 | 56146 | Noted 22/05/76 - on 08.50 Bedford St. Johns – Bletchley and 20.10 Bletchley – Bedford St. Johns3 | |||||||
| 50390 | 56146 | Noted 23/08/78 - on 16:10 Bletchley - Bedford3 | |||||||
| 50390 | 56482 | Noted circa 19802 | |||||||
| 50390 | 56482 | Noted 31/08/81 - on 11.10 Watford Jct - St Albans Abbay (Bank Holiday, Sunday times)3 | |||||||
| EP529 | 50390 | 56482 | Listed at DY - circa Jun-82 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Phil Shatford
Images:
11th May 1963
A Cravens twin with DMBS M50390 leading approaches Coalville Town with the 3.48pm Leicester (London Road) - Burton-on-Trent service on 11 May 1963. Michael Mensing.
19th October 1968
A Cravens DMU led by M50390 in Millbrook station with a Bedford - Bletchley service on 19 October 1968. The blind shows Bletchley. Stuart Mackay Collection.
3rd April 1971
Set number: BY385
Cravens twin, 50390 nearest and 56149, at Bletchley on 3rd April 1971, having just arrived from Bedford St. Johns. James Hardwick.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 3rd January 1966
A Cravens set (from the M50390-94 / M56145-49 batch) at Morcott with a Stamford - Seaton service on 03/01/1966. Photo by P.H Wells. Nigel Walls Collection.
Date: unknown
Cravens Class 105 DMBS 50394 awaits it's fate at Derby Litchurch Lane. It has the relatively rare combination of the LM Region headcode box and the stump for mounting a marker light on the roof dome, though no light was ever fitted, unique to the M50390 - 94 batch. It was withdrawn in the mid 1970s after a collision/derailment at Watford Junction that also wiped out M56147 (thanks to Eddie Knorn for info). Undated. Ian Francis.