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Vehicle 79100


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

17/09/56 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19/10/72 Withdrawn from 64H (Leith Central)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

26/08/75 - 50812, 51350, 56482, 79100 noted in Swindon Works
09/04/77 - withdrawn vehicles in Ely Yard: 56303, 79086, 79089, 79100, 79103, 79104, 79105, 79109, 79156, 79157, 79158, 79161, 79162, 79164
11/09/77 - Withdrawn vehicles noted at Ely awaiting movement to Snailwell: SC79083, 79086, 79089, 79100, 79103, 79104, 79105, 79109, 79156, 79157, 79158, 79161, 79162, 79164.

Disposal

Scrapped by A King, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


6 79100 79164 79480 79446 79166 79101 Noted 31st August 1957
79100 79161 79447 79481 79163 79107 Noted 15/08/70 - at Edinburgh Waverley1
79109 79168 79478 79161 79100 Listed at 64H - 10/06/71

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers

Images:

Swindon 79xxx at Ely

11th September 1977

Withdrawn Swindon Inter-City leading DMBSL SC79100 at Ely on 11 September 1977. It faces the rear end of an intermediate DMSL - possibly SC79164 - which has a condemned date of 11-72 painted on, there is also a paint date on the solebar of 25-8-67. Rob Edwards.

Swindon 79xxx at Ely Goods Yard, Cambridgeshire

24th June 1978

My previous image of a Class 126 having been an corridor connection equipped DMBS version, SC79157, this image portrays an outer unit DMBSL vehicle SC79100 complete with a standard drivers cab, guards van and toilet. She spent her working life, September 1956 to October 1972, at Leith Central MPD, Edinburgh before being dragged to Ely en route for storage and eventual disposal at the local Mayer Newman's Yard and had been dispatched through their firing tunnel at Snailwell by August 1983. Bob Woolnough.

Swindon 79xxx at Ely

5th May 1979

Withdrawn Swindon Inter-City DMBSL SC79100 in Ely Yard on 5 May 1979. On the left, with the door removed, seems to be SC79164. Rob Paterson.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 26th January 1975

Withdrawn Scottish Region DMU coaches no. Sc79089, Sc79100 & Sc79105, which used to work the Glasgow to Edinburgh services, await their fate outside Swindon Works, whilst on the right, Eastern Region Class 305 EMU no. 452 awaits overhaul before being returned to service. January 26th, 1975. Suthen Softy.