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Vehicle 79099


Swindon Inter-City 79xxx series

Builder: Swindon Works
Layout: Inter-City
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: White Circle
Coupling Type: Buckeye
Gangway Type: Pullman
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30200
Diagram: 552

Allocations

20/08/56 New to 64A (St Margarets)
c. summer-58 Transferred to Leith Central
Nov-59Depot code change64H
19/10/72 Withdrawn from 64H (Leith Central)

Notes

16/06/56 - Sc79095/6/8/9 noted fully painted in DMU green with whiskers outside the Railcar shop at Swindon Works.
31st August 1957 - Spare at 64H.

Disposal

Scrapped by J McWilliam, Shettleston

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


79099 79105 79480 79162 79096 Listed at 64H - 10/06/71

Images:

Swindon 79xxx at Edinburgh Waverley

7th March 1970

'Leading' power car Sc79099 is on the rear of a Swindon Inter-City DMU departing from Edinburgh Waverley on 7 March 1970. David Mant.