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Vehicle 50810

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

2w/e 31/03/58	New to	26A (Newton Heath)
Sep-63	Depot code change	9D
May-73	Depot code change	NH
Aug-82	Withdrawn from	NH (Newton Heath)

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50777	50810	As delivered to 26A - March 1958
	50770	50810	Noted 02/01/71
	50777	50810	Noted 04/06/71 - at Newton Heath¹
	50777	50810	Noted 04/1973²
	50777	50810	Noted 04/09/74 - in Liverpool Lime Street³
	50777	50810	Noted 28/08/75 - on Newton Heath depot³
	50777	50810	Noted 17/07/76 - in Manchester Victoria¹
	50764	50810	Noted circa 08/1980⁴
	50764	50810	Noted circa 01/1981⁴
	50764	50810	Noted circa 08/1981⁴
	50764	50810	Noted 15/03/1982⁴
NH150	50764	50810	Noted circa 05/1982⁴

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

Images:

23rd June 1978

Standing amongst the Rhodendrons, A Cravens Class 105 Power-Twin with M50810 trailing, calls at Pleasington whilst working the 11.45 Preston to Colne service on June 23rd 1978. The small station at rural Pleasington became a request stop in May 2012. Martyn Hilbert.

27th May 1981

A Class 105 DMU formed of M50810 + M50764 in Preston station on Wednesday 27 May 1981. David Russon.

15th March 1982

Cravens Class 105, 50810 + 50764, with a Preston-Ormskirk service, crosses the service I was on, at Rufford, 15th March 1982. Paul James.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: April 1976

Cravens Local Passenger Class 105 "power twin" 2-car dmu Nos.M50777 (105/2 ex-3-car set with one piece headcode), M50810 (105/1) of the 1957 batch, in Rail Blue livery with all-yellow front end arriving at Accrington on a Colne - Blackburn - Preston service, 04/76. Hugh Llewelyn.

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