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Vehicle 50389

Class 105

BR Diagram 525

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: 30282
Diagram: 525

Allocations

05/07/57 New to 53C (Hull Springhead)
30/11/58 Transferred to 53B (Hull Botanic Gardens) - (53C closed)
Jan-60Depot code change50C
May-71 Transferred to 40A (Lincoln)
Oct-71 Transferred to 50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
3w/e 31/03/72 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
May-73Depot code changeNO
Sep-73Depot code changeNR
07/01/77 Transferred to TS (Tyseley)
w/e 27/08/78 Transferred to NH (Newton Heath)
Sep-82 Withdrawn

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50389 56144 As delivered to 53C - 5th July 1957
50389 56128 Noted 14/06/1969 - York1
50389 56142 Noted 05/07/1970 - Bridlington1
50389 56144 Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster2
50389 56405 Noted 15/01/1972 - York1
50389 56141 Transfer to 32A - 3w/e 31/03/72
60 50389 56141 Noted circa mid-1972 - at Bury St Edmunds3
60 50389 56316 Noted circa late 1972 - at Bury St Edmunds3
60 50389 56119 Noted circa e1973 - at Bury St Edmunds3
35 50389 56119 Noted 05/05/73 - at Bury St Edmunds3
35 50389 56119 Noted 01/11/73 - at Bury St Edmunds3
35 50389 56137 Noted 13/02/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
35 50389 56137 Noted 15/03/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
35 50389 56137 Noted 20/09/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
35 50389 56137 Noted 26/10/74 - at Bury St Edmunds3
35 50389 56469 Noted 16/01/75 - at Bury St Edmunds3
35 50389 56469 Listed at NR - 19/07/75
35 50389 56124 Noted 31/05/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
50389 56442 Noted 13/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds3
50389 56456 Transfer to TS - 07/01/77
50389 56456 51119 Noted 11/04/1977 - 2D66, 07.52 Wolverhampton to Chester, extended to Rhyl4
50389 50785 Noted 08/06/1980 - on Newton Heath depot5
50389 50793 Noted circa 08/19804
50389 50793 Noted 03/01/1981 - Worked 1512 to Bolton from Blackburn6
50389 50793 Noted circa 06/19814
50389 50793 Noted circa 01/19824

Formation Sources
1: Tony Fowkes / BRCS
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Martin Lumley
6: Shayne Lewis

Images:

Class 105 DMU at Preston

24th August 1979

A former Eastern Region Cravens Class 105 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50389, complete with a paraffin tail lamp, was stood in platform 3 at Preston station with a well-filled two-car Manchester Victoria to Blackpool North service on the evening of Friday August 24th 1979. Most of the local Cravens sets in the Preston area were power-twin units, but this set was a power-trailer, with Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) M56456 leading. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 105 DMU at Bamber Bridge

29th March 1982

Set number: 146

Ex-Eastern Region Cravens Class 105 power/trailer two-car DMU with DMBS M50389 trailing, was passing over the A6 trunk road as it departed from Bamber Bridge with the 14.30 Preston to Colne service on May 29th 1982. The bridge is the far distance spanning the East Lancashire line has a historic claim to fame - it was the first Motorway bridge to span a railway in the UK, the first section of Motorway (The 8.25 mile Preston Bypass and the first part of the M6) opening in December 1958. Unfortunately the original red brick bridge visible here was radically altered in the 1990's when the M6 was widened. Martyn Hilbert.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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