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Vehicle 50759

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: 30352
Diagram: 528

Allocations

Nov-57	New to	5B (Crewe South)
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
13/09/81	Withdrawn from	NH (Newton Heath)	- Continued in non-passenger use for a few months as a 'mobile billboard.'

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

50759	59314	50792	As delivered to 5B - November 1957
50759	59308	50795	Noted Jun-66 - at Brough on an excursion possibly to the coast¹
50759	59142	50500	Noted 14/04/69 - in Derby¹
50759	50792		Noted 01/09/74 - at Preston²
50759	50514		Noted 17/07/76 - in Manchester Victoria¹
50759	50792		Noted 10/09/76 - on Newton Heath depot²
50759	50792		Noted 24th May 1980
50759	50792		Noted 27/10/80
50759	50792		Noted circa 08/1981³
50759	50792		Noted 23/11/81
50759	50792		Noted 26/04/82

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

Images:

9th April 1977

Liverpool Exchange on April 9th 1977; this was almost the end for the once great terminus with total closure only three weeks away. From a reduced number of operational platforms, the station was only handling the electric services to Ormskirk & Southport along with the DMU workings to Wigan Wallgate and Manchester Victoria via Kirkby. My notes recorded on that day have survived, and left to right we have a 3-Car Class 502 set formed of cars M29892M, M29580M & M28353M, awaiting departure to Ormskirk, alongside is Cravens Class 105, M50759 & M50792, polluting the atmosphere with its engines idling on a service to Manchester Victoria. On the adjacent platform is a newly-livered Class 502 consisting of cars M29895M, M29593M & M28366M ready to form a Southport working. On the centre road is a 6-car Class 502 set stabled for the Weekend under the shelter of the overall roof. Martyn Hilbert.

26th April 1982

"Mobile Billboard" 50759/50792 at Llandudno Junction on the 26th April 1982. Stuart Parkinson.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 24th May 1980

A Class 105 power-twin formed of M50792 + M50759 seen on a Rochdale service from a passing train near Manchester Victoria on 24 May 1980. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 18th May 1981

A wide view of Bamber Bridge on May 18th 1981, with a Cravens Class 105 Power-Twin 2-Car DMU formed of cars M50792 & M50759, awaiting departure with a Preston to Colne service. Martyn Hilbert.

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