Vehicle 79180
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: 30321
Diagram: 633
Allocations
| w/e 16/06/56 | New to | 6G (Llandudno Junction) | |
| Oct-56 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
| May-57 | Transferred to | 6G (Llandudno Junction) | |
| Jul-57 | Transferred to | 3E (Monument Lane) | |
| Nov-57 | Transferred to | 39A (Gorton) | |
| 01/02/58 | Depot code change | 9H | ER to LMR boundary change. Vehicles transferred 1st February on loan then permanently on 23rd February |
| Apr-58 | Depot code change | 9G | |
| 6w/e 11/07/59 | Transferred to | 8C (Speke Junction) | |
| Oct-59 | Transferred to | Reddish | |
| 09/09/63 | Depot code change | 9C | |
| 4w/e 04/02/67 | Transferred to | 12B (Carlisle Upperby) | |
| Mar-69 | Transferred to | 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor) | |
| 19/04/69 | Withdrawn from | 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor) |
Notes
May 1956 - 79177/80/1/7 were noted in Derby C&W Works ready for delivery circa late May / early June 1956.
Disposal
Scrapped by George Cohen Ltd, Kettering arrived 09/07/70 cut circa late-1971
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 79180 | 79681 | As delivered to 6G - w/e 16th June 1956 | |||||||
| 79180 | 79681 | Noted November 1957 | |||||||
| 79180 | 79646 | Noted 12/07/68 - on 16:35 Carlisle - Whitehaven via Maryport, then 19:05 Whitehaven - Barrow-in-Furness. Both were 2P59, separated in timetable due to long layover.1 | |||||||
| 79180 | 79646 | Noted 14/07/68 - on 2P92 15:55 Barrow-in-Furness - Preston, terminated at bus Lancaster Castle due to Sunday engineering work, bus took passengers onwards1 |
Formation Sources
1: Alan N Walker
Images:
25th June 1968
A blue-liveried Derby Lightweight DMU led by M79180 departs from Aspatria station with a Carlisle - Whitehaven service on 25 June 1968. Michael Mensing.