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Vehicle 50772

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: 30352
Diagram: 528

Allocations

w/e 28/02/58	New to	26A (Newton Heath)
Sep-63	Depot code change	9D
3w/e 30/04/66	Transferred to	16C (Derby Etches Park)
4w/e 31/05/69	Transferred to	10E (Accrington)
w/e 07/08/71	Transferred to	9D (Newton Heath)
May-73	Depot code change	NH
Sep-82	Withdrawn from	NH (Newton Heath)

Notes

10/05/59 - Noted receiving attention in Horwich Works were M50440, 50495, 50772, 50805, 59148, 79078, 79080 and 79627.

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50772	50805		As delivered to 26A - February 1958
	50772	59324	50496	Noted 31/12/68 - at Birmingham New Street¹
	50772	59311	50496	Noted 14/04/69 - in Birmingham New Street¹
	50772	50794		Noted 22/02/1971 - at Crewe²
	50772	50805		Noted 12/09/71 - at Wigan Wallgate¹
	50772	50805		Noted 19/09/71 - in Manchester Piccadilly¹
	50772	50805		Noted 24/12/1971 - at Chesterfield³
	50772	50805		Noted 04/1973²
	50772	50805		Noted 04/09/74 - in Manchester Victoria⁴
	50772	50805		Noted 01/04/1977 - at Wigan North Western²
	50772	50805		Noted circa 07/1980⁵
	50772	50814		Noted circa 07/1981⁵
NH153	50772	50787		Noted circa 05/1982⁵

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

31st May 1980

On a rather overcast May 31st 1980, Cravens Class 105 Motor Brake Second M50772 leads a service for Wigan Wallgate at Kirkby. Beyond the stop block on the other side of Glovers Brow bridge is 507025 awaiting the return journey to Liverpool Central. Kirkby had been a through station on the former L&Y main line from Liverpool Exchange to Manchester Victoria, but when the line was electrified from Walton Junction in 1978, the station at Kirkby was altered in a similar fashion to the layout at Ormskirk. A single line split into two halves separated by stop blocks with the electrics and diesel services terminating in the same platform. In this view the trackbed and the disused platform of this former double track railway are clearly visible, complete with maroon & cream gas lamp post. Martyn Hilbert.

15th May 1981

A Cravens Class 105 Power-Twin with Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50772 at the rear, was awaiting departure from Bamber Bridge with a Preston to Colne service on May 15th 1981. The Newton Heath allocated Power-Twin sets were once synonymous with the ex L&Y lines in Lancashire and were regular performers on the East Lancashire route from Preston to Colne. Just visible in the distance is the brick bridge that takes the M6 Motorway across the railway. The bridge was the first to carry a Motorway across a railway in the UK, with the M6 Preston By-Pass between Bamber Bridge (now junction 29) and Broughton (now junction 32) that opened in December 1958. Martyn Hilbert.

2nd July 1982

On the slow line at Winwick Quay, a couple of miles north of Warrington Bank Quay, a view of the rear of a Cravens (M50772 closest) and Park Royal DMU, as they head from Manchester Victoria to Chester/North Wales on 2 July 1982. Commander Bond.

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