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Vehicle 50393


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

Aug-57 New to 9A (Longsight)
Oct-57 Transferred to 6G (Llandudno Junction)
May-58 Transferred to 18A (Toton)
4w/e 29/12/62 Transferred to 15C (Leicester Midland)
Sep-63Depot code change15A
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 6A (Chester)
2w/e 10/09/66 Transferred to 16C (Derby Etches Park)
2w/e 18/03/67 Transferred to 1E (Bletchley)
06/05/73Depot code changeBY
circa Feb-82 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
Sep-82 Withdrawn from NH (Newton Heath)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50393 56148 As delivered to 9A - August 1957
50393 56149 Noted 02/09/67 - at Cambridge1
50393 56295 Noted 19752
51849 50393 56149 Noted 08/10/76 - on 19.00 Bedford St. Johns – Bletchley3
50393 56149 Noted 26/08/77 - on Bletchley depot1
50393 56120 Noted circa 19782
50393 56120 Noted 09/09/1978 - Worked 12.42 Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey2
50393 56120 Noted circa 19802
50393 56146 Noted 24/03/1982 - staff train at Guide Bridge2

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

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Whittington

Unknown date

A Cravens Class 105 with DMBS M50393 closest at Whittington station on the Midland 'Old Road' from Chesterfield to Sheffield - date unknown. Paul Redmond.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa 1975

A GRC&W suburban driver trailer 56295 working with Cravens DMBS 50393 at St Albans Abbey circa 1975. Walter Burt.