50420
Delivered April 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn May 1986 from Newton Heath.
M50420/M59132/M50424 at Cleobury Mortimer for official photographs (British Railways)
M50420/M59132/M50424 Cleobury Mortimer (Chris Heaven Collection)
M50420/M59135/M50424 Hazel Grove
M50420 Kirkham North Junction. Blackpool North-Manchester Victoria (Martyn Hilbert)
M53420, M53948, M51906, M53514 & M51909 inside Longsight North shed (David Ingram)
BX480 calling at Stockport, platform 2. From the set number and date we suggest that this is M53420 (John Marow)
50421
Delivered April 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn May 1989 from Newton Heath.
M50421 leads two 3-car sets past Lyme Park (Disley) working the 16:30 Manchester Piccadilly - Buxton. This location is now lost to vegetation growth (Michael Mensing)
M50421/59142/50487 Chapel-en-le-Frith (Pete Wilcox)
M50421 Buxton (Chris Lemon)
M53421 leads two 3-car sets at Crewe. It was the 1K92 relief 08:35 Llandudno Junction-Crewe. It subsequently went ECS to Longsight depot (Anthony Griffiths)
BX481 M53421 stands in the bay at Stalybridge, alongside 40135 which was working 1M79 Scarborough-Liverpool (Chris McKee)
M53421/M59148/M53487 arrive into Manchester Piccadilly with a service from Buxton (Andrew Crowther)
M53421/M59148/M53487 New Mills Newtown (Chris Lemon)
BX481 stands in Buxton's platform 1 leading a 6-car set. 31289 lurks behind. The leading vehicle is thought to be M53421 (Paul James)
BX481 (left) & BX482 (right) at Buxton. Based on the set numbers the vehicles are believed to be M53421 & M53507 respectively (Dave Sallery)
M53421 (BX481) Buxton, with Class 108 53958 alongside (M Headley)
M53421/M59148/M53487 (BX481) Norbury Crossing (Andrew)
M53421 Blackburn, working a service to Manchester Victoria (Richard Buckley)
50422
Delivered May 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn September 1985 from Newton Heath, then in departmental use until November 1986.
M50422 following a collision in the deport headhunt at Buxton (J M Bentley)
Thought to be M50422 at Morcambe (Chris McKee)
M50422/M59148/50426, borrowed from Buxton working an Oldham Mumps-Manchester service through Dean Lane (Ken Walker)
M50422 at the head of a standard 3-car set, stabled in the centre road at Buxton (BRCW Collection)
50423
Delivered May 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn January 1984 from Newton Heath.
An official photo of M50423/M59135/M50427 at Cleobury Mortimer (British Railways)
An official photo of M50423's cab end at Cleobury Mortimer (British Railways)
An official photo of some of M50423's underframe equipment at Cleobury Mortimer (British Railways)
M50423 near Harecastle tunnels, working the 13:15 Manchester London Road-Birmingham New Street (Michael Mensing)
M50423 arriving into Furness Vale (mollyschace)
M50431/M59139/M50483 (left) & M50423/M59135/M50427 (right) at Stockport working services to Manchester Piccadilly (left) & Whaley Bridge (right) (Mike Thompson)
50424 The "Mexican Bean"
Delivered April 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn April 1988 from Eastfield.
M50423/M59132/M50420 Cleobury Mortimer (Chris Heaven Collection)
M50424 departing Stockport Edgeley with the 14:30 Manchester - Buxton service (J W Sutherland)
M50424 passes Crewe on an excursion working
M50424 calls at Stockport on a Buxton-Manchester Piccadilly service (Hugh Searle)
M50424/M59???/M50434 stabled at Buxton, with Class 128 M55989 on the left (Lee Brown)
M53424 (BX487) Buxton (Steven Brindley)
M53424 (BX486) Piccadilly (Dennis Taylor)
SC53424 (104325) and 104367 stabled on Eastfield Depot (spannerman37025)
SC53424/SC53434 (104325) Oban (Pete Renaut)
104325 SC53424/SC53434 at Oban with an Oban-Crianlarich run (Neil Smith)
SC53424/SC53434 at Oban (Chris Lemon)
SC53424/SC53434 at Taynuilt. The small "Scottie Dog" logos suggests this may be the 1985 season (Roy Jackson)
50425
Delivered April 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn October 1989 from Chester.
M50425/M59133/M50421 Stockport (David Gray)
M50425 Derby Litchurch Lane (M Best)
M50425/M50439 & 51201/54347 Helsby (Graham Walker)
53425/53429 atBedford St Johns (Gary Thornton)
53425/53429 atBedford St Johns (Gary Thornton)
53425/53429 atBedford St Johns (Gary Thornton)
50426
Delivered May 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn December 1984 from Buxton following collision damage at Longsight.
50426/59134/50430 at Whaley Bridge working 15:33 Buxton-Manchester Piccadilly
BX480 M53426/M59152/M53474 passing Dinting on a Peak hours only Hadfield-Manchester Piccadilly working (Andrew Crowther)
M53426 at Edge Hill working the 12:45 Liverpool-Manchester Victoria (Eddie Holden)
M53426 (BX480) stabled at Longsight, not long before its collision (Lee Brown)
Thought to be M53426 just before being scrapped on site at Longsight following a collision with a parcels van (Jake Atkinson)
50427
Delivered May 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn March 1989 from Newton Heath.
M50427 Heaton Norris Junction (Hugh Searle)
M53427 (BX492) Warrington Central (Bill Roberts)
An originally unidentified vehicle at Ashburys, thought to be M53427 based on the front end features. Working the 10:13 New Mills Central-Manchester Piccadilly (David Rostance)
M53427/M59183/M53459 Doncaster (Carl Watson)
M53427 (BX492) at York after working a Stoke-York Adex
M53427 (BX492) at Buxton with a Manchester service (Paul James)
50428
Delivered May 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn January 1986 from Newton Heath.
M50428 Newchapel. 16:18 Macclesfield-Wolverhampton High Level (Michael Mensing)
M50428 Harrogate. Bradford-Harrogate service (David Ford)
M50428 Far Curve (Roger Sutcliffe)
50(3)428 is on the right, at Liverpool Lime Street in the early 1980's on a Manchester Victoria working. The left hand set is working all stations to Wigan North Western (Huw Rowlands)
M50428 crosses at Huncoat on a Colne-Preston working as signalman Terry Carson watches on (Steven Brindley)
M53428 at Preston arriving ECS to form 15:38 Preston-Ormskirk (Brian McDevitt)
50429
Delivered June 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn December 1991 from Old Oak Common.
A technically undated photo of M50429 which was published in the 1970 Ian Allan combined volume. The 4-character number in the window suggests the vehicle has either recently worked, or is preparing to work, an empty coaching stock portion of an excursion (ABC)
M53429 leads set BX484 into Stockport, whilst working 1Z26, a Buxton-Didcot special (Robert Purcell)
M50429 leads a Class 110 unit at Eastwood (Todmorden) forming the 12:29 Leeds to Southport (2M92) (David Ingram)
M53429 (BX482) Manchester Piccadilly (Dennis Taylor)
M53429 at Manchester Victoria (Colin Lindley)
M53429 (BX482) Buxton (Martin Brown)
M53429 (BX482) Tyseley Carriage Sidings (Andy Cole)
M53429 Buxton Depot (Les Pett)
BX482 working the Buxton Line (Roy Jackson)
M53429 Manchester Piccadilly (BrianHancock)
BX482 M53429/M59195/M53507 stands at Manchester Oxford Road having arrived with a service from Buxton (Huw Rowlands)
M53429/M53507 Holyhead (Dave Hitchbourne)
50430
Delivered June 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn July 1986 from Ayr.
50430/59134/50426 stand at Hazel Grove on the 16:35 Manchester Piccadilly-Whaley Bridge
M53430/M59187/M54391/M53424/M59207/M53434 stabled in the centre road at Aberystwyth, having worked a Buxton-Aberystwyth exursion (Steven Clements)
M50430 Fylde Junction (53A Models of Hull Collection)
BX483 M53430/M59187/M53491 on the NSRC Oakamoor "reopening special" at Crewe (Daniel Hopkins)
BX483 (thought to be M53430/M59187/M53491) stands at Cheddleton with an NSRC Oakamoor "reopening special" (Tom Waterhouse)
BX483 (thought to be M53430/M59187/M53491) stands at Cheddleton with an NSRC Oakamoor "reopening special" (Tom Waterhouse)
50431
Delivered June 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn June 1990 from Chester.
M50431/M59139/M50483 (left) & M50423/M59135/M50427 at Stockport working Manchester Piccadilly & Whaley Bridge services respectively (Mike Thompson)
M53431/M59137/M53496 in the York centre roads on an excursion (Nick Raven)
BX484 M53431/M59137/M53496 at a snowy Bankend (New Mills) on a Manchester Piccadilly-Buxton working (Andrew Crowther)
M53431 about to be overtaken at Longsight (Roy Jackson)
M53431/M59137/M53496 (BX484) Longsight (Hugh Searle)
Thought to be M53431, making a smokey departure on the 10:23 Saturday only Buxton-Manchester Piccadilly (David Rostance)
M53431 at Buxton with 37169 & 37080 looking on (David Rostance)
M53431/M59137/M53496 (BX484) Disley on a terminating service. Terminated due to Sunday engineering works further down the line (Hazel Grove chord construction). Passengers will now cross over and board the GMT "standard" waiting on the A6 to take them to Hazel Grove (Andrew)
M53431 calls at Hellifield with the 15.10 special to Manchester, providing a connection off the diverted Glasgow-Harwich "European" (John Armistead)
M53431 westbound at Hebden Bridge (Neil Harvey)
M53431 at Blackpool North having arrived with a service from Manchester Victoria (Terry Callaghan)
M53431/M53512 stabled at Croft Street Sidings, Preston (Martyn Hilbert)
50432
Delivered June 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn July 1984 from Buxton.
M50432 leads two 3-car sets into Stockport on a service to Buxton (Michael Mensing)
Guard Sabino Bellicoso waves off the last ever train from Buxton's Midland station from M50432 (Buxton Advertiser)
Interior of M50432 on the 21:16 Buxton Midland-Millers Dale, the last train on the branch (Buxton Advertiser)
M50432 stands on Newton Heath depot during the 1970's (Keith Till)
M50432 (BX485) Manchester Piccadilly. Note the non-standard orange door cards (Chris Lemon)
BX485 M53432 at Scarborough (Trotskee)
50433
Delivered June 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn March 1986 from Newton Heath following collision damage at Preston.
M50433 Stockport (John Dixon)
M50433 Buxton (Howard Sprenger)
A fascinating view of M50433, outside Swindon Works part way through a cab rebuild, no doubt as part of a routine but major overhaul (BRCW Collection)
M50433 stands at at all BR blue Manchester Piccadilly (David Russon)
M53433 stands at Manchester Victoria before departing on an Oldham & Rochdale service. 08675 lurks alongside (Lee Brown)
M53433 Colne (Jon Piesing)
50434 The "Mexican Bean"
Delivered July 1957 to Crewe North. Withdrawn April 1988 from Eastfield.
M50434 Manchester Piccadilly (Hugh Searle)
M50434/M59132/M50424 stand at Swindon Works at the rear of 19 shop for attention (Garry Stroud)
M53434 (BX487) at Didcot with an excursion from Buxton (J W Sutherland)
M53434 (BX487) Manchester Piccadilly (John Turner)
M53434 (BX487) Ardwick (Tony Walmsley)
BX487 M53434 at Scarborough (Trotskee)
M53434 (BX486) Piccadilly (Dennis Taylor)
M53434/M59132/M53424 Manchester Piccadilly (Neil Harrison)
M53434 Eastfield Depot (spannerman37025)
SC53434/SC53424 (104325) fresh from a repaint at Cowlairs Carriage Depot, at Eastfield (spannerman37025)
104325 SC53434/SC53424 at Eastfield depot (Mike Bunker)
104325 SC53434/SC53424 at Eastfield depot (Martyn Sanders)
50435
Delivered July 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn February 1984 from Buxton.
M50435 sits on the left in Buxton's platform 2. Meanwhile M50482/M59145 are stabled in platfiorm 1 (Andy Harris)
M50435/M59139/M50484 at Buxton having arrived with a service from Manchester Piccadilly (Peter Sharp)
M50435/M59139/M50484 at Buxton having arrived with a service from Manchester Piccadilly (Peter Sharp)
M50435/M59145/M50427 pass a snowy Hazel Grove on a Buxton service, with a Class 304 in the background (Graham Ashworth)
50436
Delivered July 1957 to Crewe South. Withdrawn August 1985 from Newton Heath.
M50436 Manchester London Road (Stewart Mackay Collection)
M50436/M59195/M50480 arrive into Manchester Piccadilly working the 16:49 from Whaley Bridge (P G Bennett)
A London Midland 3-car set formed M50436/M59???/M50506 has strayed onto the Eastern region, presumably on an excursion working due to the presence of the 1Z12 headcode in the front window. It is seen departing York, possibly ECS having worked the excursion, due to the lack of passengers visible in the windows (David Hardy)
M50436/M59141/M50488 Leeds (John Carter)
This unidentified vehicle departing Whaley Bridge is thought to be M50436 (David-Johnstone)
An unidentified vehicle at Manchester Victoria in the 1980's, possibly M50430 (Graeme Phillips)
50437
Delivered July 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn January 1992 from Old Oak Common and later preserved by the BRCW Group.
M50437 Buxton (53A Models of Hull Collection)
M53437/M53479 Leytonstone High Road. 18:30 Barking-Gospel Oak (TOPticl-Digital-Memories)
M53437/M53501 arrive into Leytonstone High Road working the 13:30 Barking-Gospel Oak (Michael Mensing)
M53437/M53501 depart Walthamstow on a Gospel Oak-Barking service (Michael Mensing)
M53437/M53501 arriving into Blackhorse Road on a Gospel Oak-Barking service (Michael Mensing)
L701 53437/53479 stabled at Old Oak Common, adjacent to a rake of HST barrier vehicles (Michael Collins)
L701 M53437/M53479 stands at Windsor & Eton Central (Malcolm Clements)
L701 M53437/M53479 stands at Windsor & Eton Central (Malcolm Clements)
L701 (M53437) stands at Slough (Malcolm Clements)
Side detail of L701 (M53437) at Slough (Malcolm Clements)
53437/53479 (L701) St Pancras (Alan Wass)
L701 53437/53479 at Gospel Oak (Martyn Sanders)
50438
Delivered July 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn July 1974 from Newton Heath following collision damage.
M50438 near Stockport
M50438 at Caftan Junction during its last year of service before being withdrawn following a collision (William Rapp Photo, Rapp Collection, Barriger Library at UMSL)
50439
Delivered July 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn January 1990 from Chester.
M50439, in the short lived early blue livery, possibly at Newton Heath (Mike Boakes Collection)
M50439/M59147/M50487 are seen departing Manchester Piccadilly with a Whaley Bridge service. The guard has omitted to remove the tail lamp from the inbound working (Hugh Llewelyn)
An unidentified vehicle leading a 6-car formation into Victoria past Manchester Exchange. M5043X can be made out on the photo, so vehicle is presumed to be M50439 as that was the only vehicle in the M50430-439 range which was allocated to Newton Heath at the time (Hugh Llewelyn)
M53439 Preston (Steven Brindley)
M53439/M53425 at Bedford working the 18:25 Bedford-Bletchley (Geoffrey Tribe)
M53439/M53425 Bedford, 06:48 Bletchley-Bedford (Alan Wass)
M53439/M53425 Leicester (Dennis Taylor)
M53439/M53425 Leicester (Dennis Taylor)
M53439/M53425 Leicester, With (116) 53826 on the left and (105) 54417 on the right (Dennis Taylor)
Thought to be M53439, at Ridgmont working 09:26 Kettering-Bletchley (Roperunner)
M53439 Leicester (Dennis Taylor)
M53439 seen near Bedford St Johns, taken from the front of M53536 (Bob Impett)