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Vehicle 50786


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: 30353
Diagram: 529

Allocations

Sep-57 New to 9A (Longsight)
Oct-57 Transferred 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-63Depot code change16C
4w/e 31/05/69 Transferred to 10E (Accrington)
Oct-72 Transferred to 9D (Newton Heath)
May-73Depot code changeNH
3w/e 27/09/75 Transferred to TS (Tyseley)
08/11/81 Withdrawn from TS (Tyseley)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50753 59308 50786 As delivered to 9A - September 1957
EP480 50753 59309 50786 Noted Apr-69
TS413 51119 56411 50786 Noted 18/12/1975 - at Birmingham New Street 1
TS413 51119 56411 50786 Noted 08/09/76 - in Birmingham New Street2
TS403 50786 56296 50325 Listed at TS - 12/08/79 - 50325 was running int TS406 in place of fire-damaged 50326
51492 59536 50786 Noted 09/05/1981 - at Birmingham Moor Street1

Formation Sources
1: Peter Wallwork
2: Gerald Brown

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Arley

1966

DMSL M50786 leads a three-car Cravens and a three-car Met-Camm with a Birmingham service seen near Arley (between Whiteacre and Nuneaton) in mid-1966. Michael Mensing.

Class 105 DMU at Stratford-upon-Avon

1976

Set number: TS413

Tyseley set TS413 with Class 105 DMCL M50786 and a Class 101 DTCL, presumably M56411, in view at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1976. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 105 DMU at Leicester

13th August 1976

Set number: TS413

A Tyseley scratch set (TS413) formed of a Class 105 DMCL (M50786), a Class 101 DTCL, and a Class 100 DMBS seen at Leicester on 13 August 1976. Nicholas T Smith.

Class 105 DMU at Four Oaks

30th May 1978

Set number: TS413

Tyseley hybrid DMU set TS413 (Class 105 DMCL M50786, a Class 105 DTSL which looks like M56456 and a Class 101 DMBS) with a refurbished Class 116 on the rear is seen on a southbound ECS leaving Four Oaks on 30 May 1978. Michael Mensing.

Class 105 DMU at Birmingham New Street

8th May 1980

Cravens DMS 50786 is part of a set with a Met-Camm TS and Gloucester DMBS at Birmingham New Street on May 8, 1980. See image 12859 for similar formation at the same place two years later. Steve Jones.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa September 1957

A three-car Cravens DMU showing 50753 and presumably 59308 + 50786. They were delivered new to Longsight depot in September 1957. This was taken from a Cravens advertisement, hence the cropping. Cravens.

DMU

Date: 21st August 1976

Set number: TS413

Tyseley hybrid DMU set TS413 (51119 and presumably 56411 + 50786) has just arrived at Hereford from Worcester Foregate Street on 21 August 1976. Stephen Burdett.

DMU

Date: 9th November 1976

Class 100 DMBS M51119 is part of a three-car hybrid DMU with a Class 101 DTSL and Class 105 DMSL (50786), working with a Class 116, at the entrance to Tyseley depot on November 9th 1976. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 9th November 1976

A Class 116 DMU works its way into Tyseley depot closely followed by a formation headed by a Class 105 DMSL (50786) and Class 101 on 9 November 1976. Image 19408 was taken just after. Michael Mensing.

DMU

Date: 16th May 1977

Set number: TS413

Tyseley set TS413, a scratch formation consisting of a Class 105 (Could this be M50786 declassified?) and a selection of Class 101 vehicles. Photographed at Croft, Leicestershire on the evening of Monday 16 May 1977 whilst working a westbound ECS. Phillip Lindsey.