Vehicle 79025
Derby Lightweight
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Yellow Diamond
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30126
Diagram: 504
Allocations
| Jan-55 | New to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
| 10/04/57 | Transferred to | 39A (Gorton) | |
| 15/09/57 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| 4w/e 04/10/58 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| 02/11/58 | Transferred to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 4w/e 13/06/59 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| 19/05/68 | Withdrawn from | 31A (Cambridge) |
Disposal
Scrapped by George Cohen Ltd, Kettering arrived 11/06/69 cut circa 1971
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 79025 | 79617 | As delivered to 40A - January 1955 | |||||||
| 79025 | 79617 | Noted August 1956 | |||||||
| 79025 | 79617 | Transfer to 39A - April 1957 | |||||||
| 79025 | 79617 | Transfer to 32A - 4w/e 5/10/1957 | |||||||
| 79025 | 79250 | Noted 2nd July 1958 - Derby Road - Chessington South excursion | |||||||
| 79025 | 79618 | Noted 26/06/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 | |||||||
| 79025 | 79615 | Noted 5th July 1965 | |||||||
| 79025 | 79618 | Noted 10/07/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 |
Formation Sources
1: Roy Endersby
Images:
1955
An official image (Derby Works negative 55/885) showing E79025 having the headstock and front section of solebar replaced in late 1955. British Railways.
circa June 1969
Two Derby Lightweight DMBSs at Cohens, Kettering, for disposal. Undated, the slide process date was July 1969. Closest is E79025 which arrived there on 11 June 1969 and was believed to linger until 1971 before being cut. Behind, in blue livery, is presumably E79028.It also arrived on the same date, these two were the first Derby Lightweight DMBSs to arrive there, and there were no more till the following year. Its stay was considerable shorted, is believed to have been cut by the end of June 1969. Stuart Mackay Collection.
21st June 1970
Still in its original green livery, 'Derby Lightweight motor coach' E79025 awaiting its fate at George Cohen's scrapyard at Cransley, near Kettering on 21st June 1970. A victim of wholesale line closures in the 1960s. Gordon Edgar.