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: 30352
Diagram: 528
w/e 05/10/57 | New to | 5B (Crewe South) | |
Mar-58 | Transferred to | 17A (Derby Etches Park) | |
Apr-58 | Transferred to | 18A (Toton) | |
4w/e 29/12/62 | Transferred to | 17A (Derby Etches Park) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 16C | |
3w/e 28/06/69 | Transferred to | 10E (Accrington) | |
Oct-72 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NH | |
06/02/83 | Withdrawn from | NH (Newton Heath) |
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
50757 | 59312 | 50790 | As delivered to 5B - w/e 05/10/57 | ||||||
EP483 | 50757 | 59320 | 50503 | Noted circa Jun-69 | |||||
50757 | 50797 | Noted 01/09/74 - at Preston1 | |||||||
50757 | 50790 | Noted 09/09/76 - at Preston1 | |||||||
50757 | 50798 | Noted circa 08/19802 | |||||||
50757 | 50802 | Noted circa 02/19812 | |||||||
50757 | 50815 | Noted circa 07/19812 | |||||||
NH147 | 50757 | 50815 | Noted circa 05/19822 | ||||||
NH147 | 50757 | 50815 | Noted circa 10/19822 | ||||||
50757 | 50815 | Noted circa 12/19822 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn
A Cravens triple DMU with M50757 closest in Derby station circa mid-1960s. David Russon.
A Cravens triple DMU led by DMBS M50757 departs from Derby with Leicester on the destination blind. Circa mid-1960s, Peak D20 is on the right. David Russon.
In the days when the Ormskirk line was still double track from Farington Curve Junction on the WCML to Midge Hall, a Newton Heath Cravens Class 105 Power-Twin, M50757 + M50815 was passing over Lodge Lane Crossing with an Ormskirk to Preston service on May 15th 1981. The foreground was the location of Moss Lane Junction , where a short double track section ran to Lostock Hall at the top of Farington Curve, once enabling trains to run direct from Liverpool and Ormskirk to East Lancashire. The junctions were taken out and the track lifted following rationalisation of the track layout/signalling in the Preston area at the time of preparation for electrification and resignalling in 1972. The well-worn former Up Line to Ormskirk formed of cast iron chairs and bullhead rail, was taken out of use in 1983 and has since been lifted. Martyn Hilbert.
Cravens 50757 and Class 108 50613 in Morecambe station circa 1982. S Saunders.
Class 108 E50613 in Morecambe circa 1982, on the right is Cravens 50757. S Saunders.