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Vehicle 50800

Class 105

BR Diagram 529

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

4w/e 25/01/58 New to 5B (Crewe South)
Jan-58 Transferred to 5D (Cockshute)
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
13/09/81 Withdrawn from NH (Newton Heath)

Modifications

circa Dec-72 - AWS fitted

50800 was involved in the following incident:

The vehicles at Bolton afterwards

20/06/73 - Wigan North Western

Collision involving Class 105

Info from The Railway Magazine Otober 1973 p535

A DMU ran through trap points at Wigan North Western and hit an overhead catenary support causing it to lean over, blocking both mainline tracks. The Wigan breakdown train removed the DMU vehicles during the early hours of the following morning. The vehicles involved are thought to be M50753 which sustained substantial cab damage, and M50800.

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50767 59322 50800 As delivered to 5B - January 1958
50766 50800 Noted 12/09/71 - at Manchester Victoria1
50767 50800 Noted 24/03/73 - in Manchester Victoria2
50765 50800 Noted 19/04/73 - in Manchester Victoria3
50753 50800 Noted 08/09/73 - in Manchester Victoria3
50767 50800 Noted 28/08/75 - in Liverpool Exchange3
50767 50800 Noted 10/04/76 - in Manchester Victoria1
50767 50800 Noted 17/07/76 - in Manchester Victoria1
50767 50800 Noted 27/09/1976 - at Preston 4
50767 50800 Noted 05/01/77 - in Manchester Victoria1
50767 50800 Noted 01/07/78 - at Matlock2
50767 50800 Noted 09/07/78 - at Preston2
50767 50800 Noted 08/06/1980 - on Newton Heath depot2
50767 50800 Noted circa 07/19805
50767 50800 Noted circa 01/19815
50767 50800 Noted 03/01/1981 - At Preston Station6
50767 50800 Noted circa 07/19815
50767 50800 Noted 12/07/1981 - on Newton Heath depot2

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Martin Lumley
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Shayne Lewis

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Unknown, LMR

circa March1958

An official image (Derby Works negative 58-231) showing a new three-car Cravens DMU with M50800 and presumably M59322 and M50767, new in January 1958. Met-Camm M50327 can be seen in the distance to the left, it would also be posed for an official image here. British Railways.

Inside a Class 105 DMU

circa March1958

An official image (Derby Works negative 58-233) showing the first class saloon in Cravens DMCL M50800, circa March 1958. British Railways.

Inside a Class 105 DMU

circa March 1958

The interior of a Cravens vehicle, Derby Works negative 58/238. This was from a three-car photographed circa March 1958. It has a toilet at the rear left so it is the DMCL or the TSL, the floor hatches suggest it is the power car M50800. British Railways.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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