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Vehicle 79052


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)
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08/09/68 Withdrawn from 32A (Norwich)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

19/04/70 - 51712, 51714, 51725, 79044, 79049, 79052, 79068, 79264 and 79281 noted at Cohen's, Kettering.

Disposal

Scrapped by George Cohen Ltd, Kettering

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


79052 79268 As delivered to 32A - 30th January 1956
79052 79268 Noted August 1956
79052 79268 Noted June 1958 - in the new shade of green
79052 79268 Transfer to 32A - 4w/e 20/02/60
79052 79268 Noted June 1963

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DMU

Date: mid-1960s

A Met-Camm Lightweight set formed of E79269 + E79052 at Birdbrook station in Essex. Undated, the set has revised lining and whiskers suggesting mid-1960s. Steve Davies Collection.