Class swindon-79xxx DMU images
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7th March 1971
A view from a Swindon 79xxx set looking back towards Armadale as it passes through the partly demolished Bathgate Upper Station on 7 March, 1971. The junction for Bathgate Lower can be seen immediately beyond the trailing car. Michael Laing.
30th March 1971
New housing development at Polmont on March 30, 1971, as a Swindon Inter-City DMU passes with a Glasgow - Edinburgh working. The set is formed leading DMBS, intermediate DMBS, TF, TRBF, intermediate DMS and leading DMBS. WS Sellar.
12th April 1971
A Swindon 79xxx series "E&G" unit at Gogar on 12 April 1971, in the final weeks of them operating this service before being replaced by Class 27 operated push-pull sets. From a negative that is deteriorating. Stuart Mackay Collection.
October 1971
Withdrawn E&G Swindon Inter-City DMUs stored at Millerhill in October 1971. Alistair Ness.
circa 1972
Withdrawn Swindon 79xxx vehicles stored at Millerhill Yard circa 1972 after replacement on Edinburgh - Glasgow services by Class 27 push-pulls. Tony Wilkins.
circa 1972
Replaced on the Edinburgh - Glasgow line by Class 27 push-pull sets, redundant Swindon Inter-City cars sit in Millerhill Yard awaiting their fate. Tony Wilkins.
October 1972
Class 06 shunter D2435 alongside rows of stored Swindon E&G DMU vehicles at Millerhill in October 9172. Alistair Ness.
19th October 1972
A small part of an official image (ScR Negative 1972/2814) which showed trackwork in progress at Millerhill on 19/10/72. In this small part of the image, behind the stack of track panels, are rows of stored Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City vehicles. There is also a row of Clayton locos on the left. The brake vans suggests the DMU vehicle were loco hauled to the yard. In the second row from the Claytons there are at least eight buffet cars together at this end (identifiable by the large covers over the kitchen ventilator fans). The third row contains just two Swindon vehicles but there is also a Gloucester unit behind. British Rail.
10th November 1972
A small part of an official image (ScR Negative 1972/3218) which showed trackwork in progress at Millerhill on 10/11/72. In comparison with the image taken almost a month earlier (https://railcar.co.uk/images/17256) the Claytons have gone but there seems to be no change in the rows of Swindon Inter-City vehicles, and the Gloucester set is still there in the third row. British Rail.
circa 1973
A 5-car 79xxx series Swindon Inter-City set at Georgemas Junction. The type had been replaced on the Edinburgh - Glasgow line and this trial run was to test their suitability for the Inverness - Wick - Thurso line. Circa 1973. Hamish Stevenson.
February 1973
One of the out-of-use Edinburgh - Glasgow Swindon Inter-City vehicles at Millerhill in February 1973. Alan Rintoul.
April 1973
Out of use Swindon Iner-City sets at Millerhill Yard in April 1973, displaced from the Edinburgh - Glasgow line by Class 27 powered push-pull sets. Alan Rintoul.
April 1973
Withdrawn Class 126 units at Millerhill in April 1973 (SC79109 closest). Most of the withdrawn E&G Swindons, which is what we knew them as, ended up stored at Millerhill Yard before being taken south for Scrap. They then hung around in East Anglia for a quite a while as we kept stumbling across them when we were on trips at such unlikely places as Ely and Mistley awaiting devouring by Kings scrapyards in Norwich and Snailwell. Some also went to Swindon for cutting up and sat alongside the Westerns waiting their turn to go. Alistair Ness.
early 1974
Several rows of Swindon SC79xxx vehicles are seen stored at Millerhill in early 1974 when displaced from E&G duties by push-pull class 27s, and from their home at Leith Central when it closed in 1972. They would eventually make their way to Snailwell for scrapping. Murray Liston.
12th April 1974
Sc79102 in Polmadie shed on April 12, 1974. Withdrawn, it was there for component stripping, as were 79163 and 79167. Arnie Furniss.
circa 1975
Mess vehicle ADB975426 formed in the Bletchley TMD breakdown train. The fresh paint suggests this was soon after conversion circa 1975. Ian McDonald.
circa 1975
Withdrawn Swindon-built 79xxx vehicles at Ely circa 1975, Sc79164 closest, Sc79109 behind. John Law.
26th January 1975
Withdrawn Scottish Region DMU coaches no. Sc79089, Sc79100 & Sc79105, which used to work the Glasgow to Edinburgh services, await their fate outside Swindon Works, whilst on the right, Eastern Region Class 305 EMU no. 452 awaits overhaul before being returned to service. January 26th, 1975. Suthen Softy.
21st February 1976
E&G Swindon vehicles at Ely Station Yard on 21/2/76 awaiting movement for scrapping - it would be four years before they moved to Snailwell. Right to left are DMSL Sc79164 and DMBSLs Sc79109 and Sc79083. Bob Gregory.
1st May 1976
Rover's Returned. After spending many years in Scotland SC79105 has returned home. These units were built at Swindon Works and were always known as Inter-City Units, they dated from 1957. Taken on 1 May 1976. It had been withdrawn from Leith Central in 1972 and would be scrapped at Snailwell in 1983. Geoff Dowling.