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Vehicle 50392

Class 105

BR Diagram 525

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)
May-58 Transferred to 18A (Toton)
4w/e 29/11/58 Transferred to 3E (Monument Lane)
4w/e 27/12/58 Transferred to 18A (Toton)
5w/e 30/07/60 Transferred to 14E (Bedford)
4w/e 27/08/60 Transferred to 18A (Toton)
4w/e 29/12/62 Transferred to 15C (Leicester Midland)
Sep-63Depot code change15A
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)
06/05/73Depot code changeBY
Jan-81 Withdrawn from BY (Bletchley)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50392 56147 As delivered to 9A - July 1957
50392 56147 Noted 30th May 1958
50392 56146 Noted 02/09/67 - at Cambridge1
50392 56147 Noted 25/08/74 - at Bletchley1
50392 56148 Noted 21/02/76 - on 08.50 Bedford St. Johns – Bletchley2
50392 56148 Noted 23/04/76 - on 19.00 Bedford St. Johns – Bletchley2
50392 56145 Noted 03/07/1976 - Seen on Bletchley - Bedford service. 56145 notable for retaining First Class markings3
50392 56145 Noted 03/08/76 - on 17.15 Bletchley – Bedford St. Johns2
50392 56145 Noted 13/05/77 - on 19.00 Bedford St. Johns – Bletchley2
50392 56145 Noted 26/08/77 - at Bletchley1
50392 56145 Noted 16/10/77 - at Watford Junction4
50392 56145 Noted 18/03/78 - at Bedford St Johns1
50392 56149 Noted circa 19803

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Phil Shatford
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Leonard Rogers

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Lidlington

3rd July 1976

3rd July 1976 was clearly a warm summer's day judging by the attire of the ladies waiting on Lidlington station as Cravens class 105/2 DMU 50392-56145 runs in, forming a Bletchley-Bedford service. Photographer - Roy Burt. Gordon Edgar Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Bedford St Johns

21st April 1977

A Cravens 2-car DMU arrives at Bedford St Johns station, working in from Bletchley on 21 April 1977. The LNWR signal box was damaged by fire later in the year and was subsequently rebuilt using the top of a Midland Region type 15 design. Leading is thought to be M50392 which had a C3T overhaul at Derby Litchurch Lane dated 10th March 1977. Kevin Lane.

Class 105 DMU at Bletchley depot

circa 1982

Class 105 D.M.U. vehicle M50392 pictured in the early 1980s, and appears to be alongside Bletchley depot. It was withdrawn from there in January 1981. Eddie Knorn adds: From memory it hit something at Watford Junction in 1980/81, leading to the damage seen here. The Class 105s on the branch (and Bedford - Bletchley line) were displaced by Class 104s from Autumn 1981, so were mostly withdrawn at that time. Note the second passenger window has three transfers on it: "FIRST", triangular NO SMOKING and a circular No Smoking below that. The "FIRST" is incorrect as this vehicle was second class only, but as this and the triangular label were "fired in" onto the glass, they could not be scraped off. I suspect that a broken window meant the use of any piece of glass that fitted. Curly42.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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