Unidentified Derby Lightweight DMU images
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circa November 1955
An official image (Derby Works, negative unknown). No details other than 'inside one of the new diesel trains'. Some detective work - it's a Derby Lightweight, the seating is from the 79xxx era. It's a DMBS (floor hatches and partition into the van). There is no small rear saloon and LMR style seating, which means it should be one of the 46 vehicles built to diagram 633 and initially used in Birmingham, Manchester and North Wales. British Railways.
circa 1956
A Derby Works / London Midland Region publicity image (negative N1009) showing a DMBS interior probably populated with BR staff. It seems to be a later yellow diamond Derby Lightweight (the rectangular vents in the ceiling and the adjacent car seems to have the horizontal split in the windscreen). Date unknown, circa 1956. British Railways.
circa 1956
A Derby Lightweight DMU in Sleaford station, circa 1956. Stuart Mackay Collection.
1956
A Derby Lightweight DMU in Wickford station with a Southminster service sometime in 1956. Stuart Mackay Collection.
1956
A Derby Works image (negative 56/397) showing work on a new Derby Lightweight vehicle in 1956. The gentleman is (or pretenting to) screw in one of the carriage fuses. Above are the lighting contactors. British Railways.
1956
A Derby Works image (negative 56/946) showing the wall paneling in the first class saloon of a Derby Lightweight vehicle, thought to be from the M79670-84 batch. British Railways.
1956
The interior of a Derby Lightweight vehicle, Derby Works negative 56/947. There are no details with the image but it is intended to show the paneling on the bulkhead. The high back seats indicate it is an LMR vehicle, the lack of floor hatches and first class indicate a DTCL. Only one small batch had the 2+2 seating in first class lot 30322 to Diagram 511 with vehicles M79670-84. British Railways.
circa February 1956
Livery experiment. This official image (Derby Works negative 56/27) records a trial of warning markings on the front end of a Derby Lightweight vehicle circa February 1956. British Railways.
circa February 1956
Livery experiment. This official image (Derby Works negative 56/25) records a trial of warning markings on the front end of a Derby Lightweight vehicle circa February 1956. This is unlikely to be a new vehicle - there is signs of paint retouching just about the gutter, and a new vehicle would have a white cab dome at this time. British Railways.
14th March 1956
Two 2-car Derby Lightweights on the 1.20pm Birmingham New Street - Rugeley seen entering Witton. The DMU services on the line had just been introduced earlier that month. Michael Mensing.
circa May 1956
Two two-car Derby Lightweight sets head out of Newcastle with a Middlesbrough service. The date is unknown, they appear reasonably clean so probably taken soon after delivery (new in March 1956), they were intended for Hexham sevices later in the year. British Railways.
14th May 1956
An official image (Eastern Region negative RX149) showing a Derby Lightweight set on 14 May 1956. The supplied caption reads: "A two car diesel train in an attractive country setting approaching Whitlingham on the Norwich-Mundesely service. Diesel car trains came into operation on the Norwich-North Walsham-Mundeseley services on Monday 9th April." British Railways.
circa June 1956
A Derby Works image (negative 56/426) showing construction work underway on Derby Lightweights circa June 1956. The closest gentleman is assembling a destination blind wooden box, the second is working with the wiring for the jumper sockets. The first vehicle is unidentified but the second - with the cab and van at the same end and a full size window behind the van - can only be M79900. British Railways.
1st July 1956
Two Derby Lightweight twins at Colwyn, heading to Llandudno, on 1 July 1956. Stuart Mackay Collection.
2nd July 1956
Two Derby Lightweights twins depart from Betws-y-Coed station with a Llandudno - Blaenau Ffestiniog service on 2 July 1956. Stuart Mackay Collection.
circa 1956
This image appeared on the rear cover of issue two of the 'Transport Age' magazine and shows both the single car Derby Lightweight vehicles (M79900 + M79901) in Buckingham station, circa 1956. British Railways.
19th September 1956
A London Midland Region publicity image (negative DM472) showing a Derby Lightweight DMU on an Amlwch service at Bangor on 19 September 1956. British Railways.
circa 1957
Two Derby Lightweight twins arrive into Rugby station, Peterborough East on the destination blind, circa 1957. Stuart Mackay Collection.
circa 1957
A couple of Derby Lightweight twins are seen at Rugby South, Peterborough East on the destination blind, circa 1957. Note how the first set has self-coloured glass fibre cab roof domes, the second set has painted aluminium domes. Stuart Mackay Collection.
circa 1957
This seems to be one of the four-car Derby Lightweights. Peter left no details on this negative but by the style of dress it would appear to be around 1957, presumably at Platform 10 of Newcastle Central. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.