Vehicle 79051
Met-Camm Lightweight
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Yellow Diamond
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30190
Diagram: 591
Allocations
| 30/01/56 | New to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| 2w/e 04/08/56 | Transferred to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| circa 1957 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| 4w/e 04/10/58 | Transferred to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 4w/e 20/02/60 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| 08/09/68 | Withdrawn from | 32A (Norwich) |
Notes
3rd March 56 - A 6-car Southend Centenary train to Liverpool Street and return contained 79049 + 79265, 79050 + 79269 and 79051 + 79267.
Disposal
Scrapped by George Cohen Ltd, Kettering arrived 25/02/70 cut circa spring 1970
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 79051 | 79267 | As delivered to 32A - 30th January 1956 | |||||||
| 79051 | 79267 | Noted 3rd March 56 - Part of 6-car Southend Centenary train to Liverpool Street and return | |||||||
| 79051 | 79267 | Noted 07/1956 - at Barton on Humber | |||||||
| 79051 | 79267 | Transfer to 30A - 2w/e 04/08/56 | |||||||
| 79051 | 79267 | Transfer to 32A - 4w/e 20/02/60 |
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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 12th May 1957
A pair of Metro-Cammell DMUs, E79278+79051 leading, being trialled on the Oxford to Cambridge line at Bedford St Johns on 12 May 1957. Kevin Lane Collection.