Derby Lightweight DMU images
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22nd September 1979
Railway Technical Centre, Derby, Test Coach Iris RDB975010 (ex-Derby Lightweight unit No. M79900) on display at BREL Crewe Works Open Day on 22nd September 1979. Between what I believe to be a Sleeper Coach and the unit can just be glimpsed 40102, whilst in the background is 24081. What a line up! Gordon Edgar.
22nd September 1979
One of the exhibits at the Crewe Works Open Day on September 22nd 1979, Test Coach Iris (RDB975010) was in the red/blue livery of the Railway Technical Centre at Derby. Built in 1956 as one of a pair of single units, 79900 was withdrawn from passenger service in 1967 and passed into departmental use. Martyn Hilbert.
22nd September 1979
Test Coach Iris RDB975010 on display at BREL Crewe Works Open Day on 22nd September 1979. Stuart Mackay Collection.
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RDB975010 - Test Coach Iris - seen in the Derby Technical Centre. Date unknown. Tim Stubbs.
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975007 + 975008, the Ultrasonic Test Train at Faversham. Date unknown. Stuart Pearce.
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The Ultrasonic Test Train - 975008 + 975007 - location / date unknown. Walter Burt.
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Test Coach Iris at Orpington, date unknown. Note the large aerial mounted horizontally from the front. Stuart Pearce.
4th March 1980
The Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test Train 975007 + 975008 seen at Sonning on 4 March 1980. Brian Daniels.
20th March 1980
Underframe detail on Ultrasonic Test Train vehicle ADB975008, ex-Trailer Composite 79612, at Finsbury Park Depot, 22 March 1980. Paul James.
14th April 1980
The Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test Train 975007 + 975008 stabled on Reading Depot on 14 April 1980. Brian Daniels.
29th November 1980
Former Derby Lightweight DTCL DB975014 is sandwiched between a BR Mk.I catering vehicle and a Swindon 'Intercity' power car at the Mayer Newman scrapyard at Snailwell on November 29th 1980. It appears to have blacked out windows and an unusual style of number. Apparently after withdrawal in 1967 it (along with similar car DB975013), was used as Staff Mess coaches. A contemporary report at the time (Pennine Railway Society who visited Ely in November 1980), suggested that DB975014 was the last remaining original BR Green liveried DMU car on BR. There seems to be some mystery with this particular car, as DB975013 appears in some Ian Allan DMU books under 'Departmentals' in the early 1970's, however there is no reference to DB975014. However, according to the website 'Departmentals.com' the car had spells at Dundee and Edinburgh Craigentinny Depots as a Staff Mess facility. Martyn Hilbert.
circa early 1980s
Test Car Iris, 975010, in Saxmundham station, circa early 1980s. Taken just after image 31513. Stuart Mackay Collection.
24th February 1981
In the long-disappeared siding at East Croydon sits the Ultrasonic Test Train 975008/975007 on February 24, 1981. Jeremy Chapter.
24th February 1981
This ultrasonic test train comprised a train of Derby lightweight dmu coaches M79018 (renumbered DB975007) and M79612 (DB975008). This view was taken from the SR Central Divisional HQ (Essex House) on 24 February 1981. Jeremy Chapter.
25th February 1981
The Ultrasonic Test Train, formed of a Derby Lightweight dmu, is berthed at East Croydon on 25th February 1981. Tony Watson.
2nd July 1981
The Ultrasonic test train 975007 and 975008 stands at Berwick-upon-Tweed on 3rd July 1981. Paul Bettany.
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The Derby Lightweight ultrasonic test train (DB975007 + DB975008) at Reading on 1 May 1990. On the right is its replacement (977391 + 999602 + 977392), on the left a loose 119 power car. Stuart Parkinson.
28th March 1982
975010 (Test Coach Iris) seen at Derby Research Centre on the 28th March 1982. Ian Francis.
14th September 1982
Derby Single Unit RDB975010 IRIS Inverness 14 September 1982. Test coach IRIS in a bay platform at Inverness. Despite my extensive travels throughout the UK in the 1970s this was the first time I had seen this unit and I was very surprised to cop it this far north. I have since travelled in it at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in it's restored guise as M79900. Alistair Ness.
14th September 1982
RDB975010 (ex M79900) Inverness Station 14 September 1982 Test coach IRIS in a bay platform at Inverness. Despite my extensive travels throughout the UK in the 1970s this was the first time I had seen this unit and I was very surprised to cop it this far north. I have since travelled in it at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in it's restored guise as M79900. Alistair Ness.