Vehicle 50789
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
| 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 | |
| 4w/e 31/05/69 | Transferred to | 10E (Accrington) | |
| Oct-72 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NH | |
| Feb-81 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
| 29/06/81 | Withdrawn from | HA (Haymarket) |
Modifications
circa early 1975 - AWS fitted
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50756 | 59311 | 50789 | As delivered to 5B - w/e 05/10/57 | ||||||
| EP484 | 50758 | 59151 | 50789 | Noted Apr-69 | |||||
| 50758 | 59151 | 50789 | Noted 14/04/69 - in Derby1 | ||||||
| 50762 | 50789 | Noted 01/06/1974 - at Preston 2 | |||||||
| 50756 | 50789 | Noted 01/09/74 - at Preston3 | |||||||
| 50756 | 50789 | Noted 10/09/76 - on Newton Heath depot3 | |||||||
| 50771 | 50789 | Noted circa 08/19804 | |||||||
| 105374 | 50782 | 59159 | 50789 | Noted March 1981 | |||||
| 50782 | 59159 | 50789 | Noted 15/03/81 - on Haymarket depot1 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
Images:
28th May 1979
On the evening of Spring Bank Holiday Monday, May 28th 1979 and with the sun setting in the West, a Newton Heath allocated Class 105 Power-Twin DMU formed of cars M50789 & M50771 was stood at the seaside resort of Rhyl coupled with various other DMU sets on a return excursion from Llandudno to East Lancashire. Martyn Hilbert.
15th March 1981
Class 105 sets at HA, 15th March 1981. Transferred to Haymarket from Newton Heath in February 1981 Sc50789 leads set 374, comprising 50782/59159 (a Class 104)/50789, at the west end of the depot. Its tenure here was short as it was withdrawn on 29th June of the same year. Note the Kilmarnock destination blind. Behind is 51477 in the blue/grey livery that was applied to a few of the cars. Bruce Galloway.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 15th March 1981
At the west end of Haymarket depot on 15.3.81 sit two hybrid class 105 triples. On the left, freshly-outshopped from St Rollox in blue/grey and complete with ScR six-figure unit number (105 37x), is 51481/59567(cl.101)/51477, while further back, apparently on loan from Newton Heath, is 50782/59159(cl.104)/50789. See the comments in the caption to the photo of 55000 and others from the same occasion about the ScR's application of blue/grey to 105's. Notice too how the home-based unit contains two DMBS's : this was a result of the Region's policy in the 1970's of standardising on triples. Driving trailers from former two-car units of classes 101 and 105 were swapped with the Eastern Region for class 101 centre trailers and DMC's. However, this left the ScR with an excess of class 105 DMBS's which had to double up in triples for a while. Leonard Rogers.