Vehicle 79972
Park Royal Railbus
Builder: Park Royal
Layout: Railbus
Length: 42ft
Coupling Code: None
Coupling Type: None
Gangway Type: None
Lot Number: 30480
Diagram: 613
Allocations
| Jul-58 | New to | 14E (Bedford) | - Listed as 15D although Bedford had become 14E in April 1958 |
| 29/02/60 | Transferred to | Cowlairs Works | |
| 04/03/60 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| 4w/e 25/08/61 | Transferred to | 63A (Perth) | |
| 05/03/62 | Transferred to | 67C (Ayr) | |
| 17/06/63 | Transferred to | 60A (Inverness) | |
| 19/03/64 | Transferred to | 67C (Ayr) | |
| 09/04/64 | Transferred to | 60B (Aviemore) | |
| 18/12/65 | Transferred to | 9L (Buxton) | |
| 05/08/67 | Withdrawn from | 9L (Buxton) | - Also listed as withdrawn during period 11/66 (end October / early November 1966) |
Notes
11/08/58 - The Bedford - Hitchin and Bedford - Northampton passenger services have been operated from 11th August by Bedford allocated M79971 / 79972 / 79973.
Disposal
Scrapped by A Looms, Spondon arrived Dec-66 cut Dec-66
Images:
circa 1960
79972 is entering Motherwell here with Lesmahagow Junction signal box visible in the background. Believed to have been taken around 1960, this was allocated to Hamilton at the time and would probably have been operating a Holytown-Hamilton Central service which provided connections to/from Edinburgh via Shotts services. Photographer unknown, shared with the kind permission of Danny Mooney. Unknown.
1963
Park Royal railbus M79972 on Ayr depot in early 1963. Stuart Mackay Collection.