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| Nov-81 | Withdrawn from | BY (Bletchley) | |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| circa mid-82 | Withdrawn from | DY (Derby Etches Park) |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.
10th November 1979
50390 pauses at the charming little wayside station at Lidlington. This was the pre-modernised Bletchley - Bedford line and Lidlington still has old style lamps, the signal man is out in his Hi-Vis jacket shutting the large manual gates. The train is the 11.10 Bletchley - Bedford service on the 10th November 1979. Geoff Dowling.
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: 3rd August 1974
A Cravens Class 105 twin departs from Fenny Stratford on 3 August 1974. The closest vehicle is a DMBS from the M50390-4 batch and likely M50393. Stuart Mackay 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.