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
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Aug-82 | Withdrawn from | NH (Newton Heath) |
Scrapped by A King, Snailwell
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
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.
Cravens Class 105, 50810 + 50764, with a Preston-Ormskirk service, crosses the service I was on, at Rufford, 15th March 1982. Paul James.
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.