50500
Delivered September 1957 to Crewe South. Withdrawn May 1989 from Crewe Carriage Sidings.
M50500 leads a 6-car excursion at Barmouth (Mike Boakes Collection)
M50500 arriving into London Euston, presumably from Birmingham or the North West? (Mike Boakes Collection)
M50500 at Leicester Midland, 0-6-0 diesel shunter 3785 shunts 2/3rds of a 3-car set into the sidings away from a derailed DMBS (Nigel Tout)
M50500/M59157/M50447 departs Stoke-on-Trent's Platform 1 heading North (Old Fentonian)
M50500 loading passengers at Manchester Victoria, shortly before it was renumbered M53500 (Russel Saxton)
M53500/M53444 at Bedford with a Bletchley service (Hugh Llewelyn)
50501
Delivered October 1957 to Buxton. Withdrawn March 1989 from Newton Heath.
ID is not 100% certain, but thought to be M50501 leading two 3-car sets at Stafford (Michael Mensing)
M50501 at Burslem, probably in its original 3-car formation as built. It is working the 16:19 Uttoxeter-Congleton (Michael Mensing)
A very rare view of M50501 at Derby Midland, carrying BR green livery with a full yellow end (Graham Clark)
M50501/M59157 arrive into Ely. 07:25 Cambridge-Birmingham New Street (Jim Platt)
M50501 at an unknown location. The surroundings are quite distinctive so if any readers recognise the location then please get in touch (Paul Redmond)
M50501 at an unknown location. The surroundings are quite distinctive so if any readers recognise the location then please get in touch (Paul Redmond)
50502
Delivered October 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn July 1984 from Buxton.
M50502 stands in Platform 12 at Manchester Victoria about to depart for Southport (Martin Tasker)
M50502 at Norwich, probably after working in from the Derby area (Adrian Hennessy courtesy M&GN Society)
M50502 leaving Stoke-on-Trent with a Nottingham local (Rob McRorie)
M50502 under overhaul at Swindon Works (Keith Till)
M50502/M59155/M50444 stand at Nottingham with the 13:47 Derby-Lincoln St Marks (Alan Wass)
M50502 arriving into Furness Valeworking the 12:29 Manchester Piccadilly to Buxton (Don Gatehouse)
50503
Delivered October 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn August 1985 from Newton Heath.
A clean looking M50503 at Belper with a Matlock-Derby working (David Hayes)
M50503 stabled on the middle roads at Lincoln St Marks (Rail Online)
M50503 in service at Derby (BRCW Collection)
Thought to be M50503 at Derby, although ID is fairly uncertain (R Holt)
M50503/M59151/M50449 at Beeston heading into Nottingham (John Woolley)
M53503 (on the right) condemned at Queens Road Carriage Sidings, Manchester (David Ingram)
50504
Delivered October 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn October 1989 from Chester.
Thought to be M50504 at Stetchford. This is a rather unusual 4-car formation, during a time when sets out of sequence were rare. It appears to be two 3-car sets with 1 vehicle from each set missing (Michael Mensing)
M50504 at Bolton
M53504 stabled at Newton Heath, note the GMPTE "M" logo applied next to the BR double arrow (Les Pett)
M53504 at Manchester Piccadilly. The vehicle was allocated to Buxton for about a year during this period (Andrew Walker)
M53504 at Buxton, likely to be during the 1984/85 winter
M53504/M59236/M53456 at Buxton working a special Peak Rail Rambler between Buxton and New Mills Central (J W Sutherland)
M53504/59228/53556 stand at Blackpool North on a typical 104 duty. This set was destined in four months time however to be sent up to Scotland to cover for a a shortage of units(Dennis Taylor)
M53504 at Edinburgh Waverley's Platform 17 (Alan Rintoul)
M53504 at Edinburgh Waverley's Platform 17 (Alan Rintoul)
457 53504 at Markinch, working 2J07 15.20 Edinburgh to Dundee climbing to Lochmuir (Bruce Galloway)
M53504 at Drem with a North Berwick-Edinburgh service (Alan Rintoul)
M53504 at Blindwells with a North Berwick-Edinburgh service (Alan Rintoul)
50505
Delivered October 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn March 1987 from Ayr.
M50505 at Spon Lane (Michael Mensing)
M50505 at Soho with a Stoke-on-Trent service (Michael Mensing)
M50505 at Blackpool North waiting to depart for Manchester Victoria (Alan Rintoul)
M50505/M59161/M50453 & M50761/M59207/M50794 pass the fomer Bury Knowsley Street with the 11:05 (Additional) Manchester Victoria-Rawtenstall 'Rossendale Farewell' special (David Ingram)
M50505/M59161/M50453 & M50761/M59207/M50794 pass the fomer Bury Knowsley Street with the 11:05 (Additional) Manchester Victoria-Rawtenstall 'Rossendale Farewell' special (David Ingram)
M50505/M59161/M50453 & M50761/M59207/M50794 pass the fomer Bury Knowsley Street with the 11:05 (Additional) Manchester Victoria-Rawtenstall 'Rossendale Farewell' special (David Ingram)
M50505 at Bury Bolton Street working the David Isherwood organised "The Rossendale Farewell" rail tour (Jeremy Chapter)
M50505/M59161/M50453/M50761/59207/M50794 at Ramsbottom with the 11:05 Manchester Victoria-Rawtenstall (last train) (Martyn Hilbert)
M50505/M59161/M50453/M50761/59207/M50794 at Ramsbottom with the 11:05 Manchester Victoria-Rawtenstall (last train) (Martyn Hilbert)
M50505/M59161/M50453 & M50761/M59207/M50794 near Rawtenstall with the 11:05 (Additional) Manchester Victoria-Rawtenstall 'Rossendale Farewell' special (David Ingram)
M50505/M59161/M50453 & M50761/M59207/M50794 near Rawtenstall with the 11:05 (Additional) Manchester Victoria-Rawtenstall 'Rossendale Farewell' special (David Ingram)
M50505/M59161/M50453 & M50761/M59207/M50794 at Rawtenstall with the 11:05 (Additional) Manchester Victoria-Rawtenstall 'Rossendale Farewell' special (M Best)
50506
Delivered October 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn September 1985 from Newton Heath, then in departmental use until November 1986.
A London Midland 3-car set formed M50506/M59???/M50436 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)
M50506, complete with small "Buxton" regalia, at Preston (John Woolley)
M53506/M53422 pass the box at Burnley Central (Don Gatehouse)
M53506 arriving into Manchester Victoria (Dennis Taylor)
M53506 departing from Manchester Victoria (Dennis Taylor)
M53506/M53422 at Bramhall (David Burrell)
50507
Delivered October 1957 to Longsight. Withdrawn October 1989 from Chester.
BX484 M53507 (right) stand at Buxton (Philip Short)
M53507/M59149/? pass Disley on a Buxton-Manchester Piccadilly service (Andrew Crowther)
BX482 (M53507/M59195/M53429) emerges from the Hayfield tunnel whilst working a New Mills Central turnback service (Andrew Crowther)
BX481 (M53421?) left & BX482 (M53507?) right at Buxton (Dave Sallery)
BX482 stands at Manchester Piccadilly. M53507 is thought to be leading.
M53507 (BX482) calls at Leyland with a Blackpool North-Manchester Victoria service (Martyn Hilbert)
M53507 (BX482) calls at Heaton Chapel at 15:26 with a Buxton service (Paul Moxon)
M53507 enters Disley with the 17:02 Manchester Piccadilly-Buxton (6089Gardener)
BX482 M53507/M59195/M53429 pass Stockport on a Manchester Piccadilly-Buxton working seen at 12:27 (R W Carroll Collection)
M53507/M53429 stand in Stockport's 3A bay (Hugh Searle)
BX482 M53507/M53429 at a typically damp Manchester Victoria working the 17:40 Manchester Victoria-Bolton (Gordon Edgar)
Thought to be M53507/M53534 at Parkside on a stopping service to Chester (Terry Callaghan)
50508
Delivered November 1957 to Stoke-on-Trent. Withdrawn July 1985 from Newton Heath.
Thought to be M50508 at Coventry working the 11:59 Rugby service
M50508/M59164/M50456 & M5045?/M59144/M50511 arriving into Llandudno Junction, close to journey's end at Llandudno (Kevin Redwood)
50509
Delivered November 1957 to Stoke-on-Trent. Withdrawn July 1985 from Newton Heath.
M50509 at Cheadle Hulme, heading into Manchesdter on the Crewe lines. Note the route indicator which has been painted over (Hugh Searle)
M53509/M59149/M53457 & M53514/M59166/M53458 at York Holgate Junction, On the Up Leeds line with a 1Z29 special (David Ingram)
M53509 coupled to a Blue & Grey centre car at Skegness (Russell Saxton)
50510
Delivered November 1957 to Stoke-on-Trent. Withdrawn June 1986 from Ayr.
M50510/M59152/M50461 stand at Manchester Victoria (David Russon)
M53510 arriving into Glasgow Central (John Horne)
50511
Delivered November 1957 to Stoke-on-Trent. Withdrawn May 1989 from Newton Heath.
M50511/M59144/M50459 at the original Blaenu Ffestiniog station (M Best)
M53511 stands at Manchester Victoria (Johnathan Hazan)
This unidentified vehicle is thought to be M53511, at Stalybridge working the shuttle to Stockport (John Atkinson)
M53511 stabled at Tyseley (Andy Cole)
M53511/M53949 & 150237 at Manchester Victoria with Blackburn and Blackpool North services respectively (Keith Long)
M53511 in the shed at Tyseley. A Parcels conversed Class 114 is in the background (Andy Cole)
50512
Delivered November 1957 to Stoke-on-Trent. Withdrawn June 1990 from Chester.
M50512/M59168/M50460 & M50529/M59183/M50477 at Blackpool North after arrival with the 12:10 from Manchester Victoria (Alan Wass)
53512/53460 pass Moss Lane Junction, on the 11:20 Preston-Ormskirk. It is climbing the 1 in 92 up to Farington Moss (Tony Woof)
M53512 enters Manchester Piccadilly (Chris Lemon)
M53512/M53431 stand at Manchester Victoria (C Bruce)
M53512/M53431 at Harrogate (Martin Benson)
M53431/M53512 stand at Manchester Victoria, with Class With 108 54268/53934 behind (Rex Holt)
50513
Delivered November 1957 to Stoke-on-Trent. Withdrawn November 1963 from Stoke-on-Trent following collision damage at Uttoxeter.
50514
Delivered December 1957 to Stoke-on-Trent. Withdrawn October 1987 from Buxton.
M50514/M59166/M50458/M50511/M59144/M50459 at Llandudno Junction with the 09:59 Stockport-Llandudno (Graeme Phillips)
M53514 stabled at Sheffield (Dennis Taylor)
M53514 stabled at Sheffield (Dennis Taylor)
Thought to be M53514 at Manchester Piccadilly (Lee Brown)
M53514 well off region at Eastleigh as part of a 9-car formation (Carl Watson)
M53514/M59228/M53556 (BX487) arrive into Chapel-en-le-Frith with a Buxton to Manchester Oxford Road service (Andrew ?)
50515
Delivered December 1957 to Stoke-on-Trent. Withdrawn July 1984 from Buxton.
M50515 Sitting on its own at Birmingham New Street, possibly en-route from Crewe to BRCW for repairs (Michael Mensing)
M50515/M59171/M50463 Manchester Victoria with a Wigan service (Hugh Llewelyn)
M50515/M59171/M50463 at Manchester Victoria/ platform 12. Working the 16:27 Manchester Victoria to Southport (David Ingham)
M53515 at Salwick, on a Manchester-Blackpoo. working. Taken between May 1980 and October 1984 (Steven Brindley)
M53515/M51563 at Preston with the 09:15 to Ormskirk (Alan Wass)
50516
Delivered December 1957 to Stoke-on-Trent. Withdrawn May 1990 from Chester.
M50516 at Hednesford (Michael Mensing)
M50516 (Paul Redmond)
M50516 calls at St Helens with a David Isherwood "Knotty Rambler" railtour from Bury to Manchester Piccadilly via various lines in Staffordshire (Alan Rintoul)
M50516 Cheddleton
Thought to be M53516 at Pepper Hill, working Manchester Victoria-Blackburn (Richard Clayton)
M53516/M53468 & M53470/M53499 stand at Bury Interchange with the 20:30 Bury to Manchester Victoria (2J90) (David Ingram)
M53516 leading an eastbound service, with an UID 2-car set on a westbound service (John Irving)
M53516/M53442 & M53447/M53531 at Leeds at 11:18 (Paul Moxon)
M53516/M53442 at Wigan Wallgate (Dave Hitchbourne)
Set N664 at Grange-over-Sands (Tony Walmsley)
M53516/M53442 at Mytholmroyd with 2E13 12:00 Manchester Victoria to York (Michael McNicholas)
M53516/M53442 depart Stockport with the shuttle to Stalybridge (Andrew Crowther)
50517
Delivered December 1957 to Crewe South. Withdrawn May 1990 from Chester and later preserved by the BRCW Group.
M50517 at Preston with just a single red light showing (curly42)
M53517/M53450 stand at Manchester Victoria's Platform 12 forming the 12:23 Manchester Victoria to Southport (2F50) (David Ingram)
M53517/M59168/M53472 at Preston with the 09:10 Manchester Victoria-Blackpool North (Alan Wass)
M53517/M59168/M53464 at Clifton with the 12:25 (Saturdays Only) Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria (2J56) (David Ingram)
M53517 (456) Glasgow Queen Street during the mid 1980's (Ian Docwra)
M53517/M59168/M53464 (set 456) stabled Eastfield (Dennis Taylor)
53517/59168/53464 (456) pass Bo'ness Junction (Merlin)
53517/59168/53464 at Eastfield Depot (Dave Hitchborne)
456 53517/59164/53464 arrives into Edinburgh Waverley (Hugh Searle)
M53517 (CH611) passes 31461 at Llanwrst with the 14:22 from Llandudno. 31461 was working the 14:18 Blaenau Ffestiniog to Llandudno (Mister C)
M53517/M53451 (CH611) stabled at Chester Depot (Kevin Dowd)
M53517 (CH611) departs Manchester Piccadilly (Bill Roberts)
50518
Delivered December 1957 to Crewe South. Withdrawn May 1989 from Crewe Carriage Sidings.
M50518, M51939, & M50442 stabled at Newton Heath (Chris Lemon)
M53518/M53464 at Lostock Hall (Pete Wilcox)
M53518/M53451 calls at Rose Grove on the 12:50 Blackpool North-Leeds. Passengers are transferring to road coach (on bridge) for transfer to Hebden Bridge due to Todmorden tunnel being closed (Alan Wass)
M53518 calls at a snowy Farnworth (Paul Williams)
M53518/451 arriving into Manchester Oxford Road with the 14:35 Altrincham-Manchester Piccadilly (6089Gardener)
M53518/M53451 stands at Stalybridge (Gary Thornton)
50519
Delivered January 1958 to Crewe South. Withdrawn April 1985 from Newton Heath, following fire damage at Glazebrook.
A service to Bangor passes Penmaenmawr. The thought-to-be unique case of having no marker lights at all suggests this is M50519 (Andy Flowers Collection)
M50519 creeps into this shot of a Class 25 at Manchester Victoria (John Turner)
Recorded as M50519, this view is interesting as it shows a vehicle with no marker lights fitted at all. Is it M50519, or is it an earlier vehicle that has had a roof dome swapped with a later vehicle? In any case, this unusual example is seen arriving into Parbold working a Southport-Manchester Victoria service (Martyn Hilbert)
Thought to be M50519, at Pepper Hill,between Clifton & Kearsley (Marian Schofield)
An ex-works M50519 at Manchester Victoria (Derek Elston)
M50519/M59175/M50467 stands at Manchester Victoria's Platform 13 with the 14:15 Manchester Victoria-Blackpool North (David Ingram)