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AC Cars Railbus images identified by Vehicle No.


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79975

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Unknown Date

W79975 is seen being removed in a somewhat unconventional manner from the AC Cars Taggs Island factory in Thames Ditton, the building of the body complete. Reportedly the wall of the building was removed each time a completed railbus body was dispatched! Everly Brothers were the hauliers. The scene was captured by an apprentice cabinet maker at AC Cars. Geoff Rixon.


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1967

W79975 in Falkirk. The image is undated, the vehicle moved to Scotland in January 1967 and was withdrawn by the end of the year. Stuart Rankin.

79976

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22nd October 1959

AC Cars railbus W79976 at Kemble on the 22nd October 1959. Mike McDonald Collection.


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9th April 1961

AC Cars railbus W79976 stabled on Swindon shed on 9 April 1961. Stuart Mackay Collection.


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4th April 1964

W79976 leaving Kemble on the 2.20 to Cirencester Town on the 4th April 1964 Robert Thomas.


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10th August 1969

W79976 was built by AC Cars in 1958 and delivered to the Western Region for staff training in August of that year. Alongside classmates W79975, W79977 and W79978, it was put to work on the Kemble-Cirencester Town and Kemble-Tetbury branch lines from February 1959 until closure in April 1964. W79976 and W79975 were used on services between Yeovil Town and Yeovil Junction starting from December 1964. When Yeovil Town closed in October 1966 the services continued through to Yeovil Pen Mill but the railbuses soon found themselves displaced by larger DMUs. As with the other AC Cars railbuses, W79976 was transferred to Scotland in January 1967 and operated around Ayr, chiefly on the branch line to Kilmarnock. However it did not last long in service and in January 1968 it was officially withdrawn. This Agfachrome transparency I took at Ayr TMD on 10th August 1969. Following withdrawal from BR and storage at Ayr TMD it entered preservation. Gordon Edgar.

79977

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5th August 1963

W79977 seen just east of Tetbury with the 12.20pm Tetbury - Kemble service on August 5, 1963, a Bank Holiday Monday. Michael Mensing.


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5th August 1963

W79977 is working the 3.14pm Tetbury-Kemble when seen just after passing Trouble House Halt on the 1963 August Bank Holiday Monday, 5/8/63 Michael Mensing.


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4th April 1964

W79977 in loop at Kemble having arrived from Swindon to replace W79976 on the Cirencester branch for the afternoon of 4th April 1964 the last day of service. Robert Thomas.


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30th December 1967

Falkirk Grahamston on 30/12/1967 with AC Railbus W79977 awaiting departure for Grangemouth. John Clark.


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Unknown Date

No details with this image, but this vehicle is in platform 1 of Stirling station, and the W prefix with yellow panel means this is 79977. Stuart Mackay Collection.


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20th January 1968

AC Cars railbus W79977 at Larbert on 20 January 1968. It would be withdrawn two weeks later, just after the passenger services to Grangemouth ended. It was one of only two of the five vehicles to have a yellow panel on the cab fronts, slightly narrower than the one 79979. It was also easy to tell them apart as this one had a white roof dome. Stuart Mackay Collection.


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27th January 1968

W79977 seen at Throsk on the 27th January 1968. WS Sellar.


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27th January 1968

W79977 between Alloa Jct and Airth on 27/1/68. WS Sellar.


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April 1969

Photographed in April 1969 W79977 lies at the south end of Millerhill Yard. It was withdrawn from service at the end of January 1968 when passenger services ended between Alloa and Falkirk / Grangemouth and was cut up on site by R B Hepburn in April 1969. John Clark.

79978

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January 1961

AC Cars railbus W79978 seen on Swindon shed in January 1961. Stuart Mackay Collection.


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5th August 1963

AC Cars railbus W79978 is seen on the Circencester branch working the 2.20pm Kemble - Cirencester service on 5 August 1963. Michael Mensing.


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5th August 1963

AC Cars railbus W79978 leaves Cirencester with the 2pm service to Kemble on 5 August 1963. Michael Mensing.


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4th April 1964

W79978 waiting to leave Kemble for Tetbury on what I think was the 10.20(SO)to Tetbury on 4th April 1964 the last day of service Robert Thomas.


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4th April 1964

W79978 arriving at Kemble on 4th April 1964 on the 4.25 from Tetbury the last day of service. Robert Thomas.

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