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
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19/04/69 | Withdrawn from | 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor) |
May 1956 - 79177/80/1/7 were noted in Derby C&W Works ready for delivery circa late May / early June 1956.
Scrapped by George Cohen Ltd, Kettering arrived 09/07/70 cut circa late-1971
79180 | 79681 | As delivered to 6G - w/e 16th June 1956 | |||||||
79180 | 79681 | Noted November 1957 |
A blue-liveried Derby Lightweight DMU led by M79180 departs from Aspatria station with a Carlisle - Whitehaven service on 25 June 1968. Michael Mensing.