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Vehicle 79134

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: 30240
Diagram: 633

Allocations

03/03/56	New to	3E (Monument Lane)
May-58	Transferred to	6G (Llandudno Junction)
3w/e 31/01/65	Transferred to	1E (Bletchley)
w/e 06/01/68	Transferred to	12B (Carlisle Upperby)
4w/e 08/06/68	Withdrawn from	12B (Carlisle Upperby)

Notes

03/06/56 - The first of a series of Sunday excursions took M79124/79645, M79134/79655 and M79169/79670 from Birmingham New Street to Oxford. Outward journey was via Bletchley and return was via Northampton.

79134 was involved in the following incident:

I visited Barrow on a Northern Railfans minibus trip to sheds in the northwest that left from Manchester Victoria - still pretty steamy then - on the Friday evening. This was my one and only real trainspotting foray.

Disappointingly there were no steam engines remaining at Barrow in 1968 & I only took a couple of shots - this negative lay unprinted for years. I wish now that I had taken more photos around the shed but at least I did record the depot’s intermediate period when it mainly handled dmus.

This Derby Lightweight unit M79134 has obviously been involved in a nasty knock with front buffer gone and cab windows smashed. New to Monument Lane in March 1956 & transferred to Carlisle Upperby in January 1968, the damage was considered too serious for repair and it was withdrawn in early June 1968.

circa spring 1968 - Unknown, LMR

Collision involving Derby Lightweight

Info from Pete LG99

Details unknown. Derby Lightweight DMBS M79134 was noted on Barrow-in-Furness shed with collision damage to the cab and the headstock missing.

Disposal

Scrapped by TW Ward, on location at Carlisle Upperby

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

79134	79655	As delivered to 3E - 3rd March 1956
79134	79655	Noted 3rd June 1956
79134	79655	Noted 02/07/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services¹
79134	79655	Noted 28/07/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services¹
79134	79655	Noted 02/06/66 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services¹
79134	79657	Noted 30/06/66 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services¹

Formation Sources
1: Roy Endersby

Images:

15th June 1968

I visited Barrow on a Northern Railfans minibus trip to sheds in the northwest that left from Manchester Victoria - still pretty steamy then - on the Friday evening. This was my one and only real trainspotting foray. Disappointingly there were no steam engines remaining at Barrow in 1968 & I only took a couple of shots - this negative lay unprinted for years. I wish now that I had taken more photos around the shed but at least I did record the depot’s intermediate period when it mainly handled dmus. This Derby Lightweight unit M79134 has obviously been involved in a nasty knock with front buffer gone and cab windows smashed. New to Monument Lane in March 1956 & transferred to Carlisle Upperby in January 1968, the damage was considered too serious for repair and it was withdrawn in early June 1968. Pete LG99.

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