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<- 79024 | 79025 | 79026 ->

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19/05/68 Withdrawn from 31A (Cambridge)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:

Derby lightweight at Derby C&amp;W Works

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.

Derby lightweight at Cohen&#039;s Kettering

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.