Unidentified Class swindon-79xxx DMU images
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9th July 1956
Underneath a Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City power car. Official image, negative 5C142, taken 9/7/56. This is from the centre of the vehicle looking to the rear. British Railways.
9th July 1956
Underneath a Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City power car. Official image, negative 5C141, taken 9/7/56. This is under the no.1 engine (cab end) looking to the rear. British Railways.
9th July 1956
Underneath a Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City power car. Official image, negative 5C140A, taken 9/7/56. This is under the no.2 gearbox looking to the rear of the vehicle. British Railways.
9th July 1956
Underneath a Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City power car. Official image, negative 5C140, taken 9/7/56. This is from under the no.2 gearbox (out of site) looking to the cab end. British Railways.
9th July 1956
Underneath a Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City power car. Official image, negative 5C139, taken 9/7/56. This is from under the rear bogie looking to the cab end. British Railways.
9th July 1956
Underneath a Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City power car. Official image, negative 5C138, taken 9/7/56. This is from under the no.2 engine(out of site) looking to the cab end. British Railways.
9th July 1956
Underneath a Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City power car. Official image, negative 5C137, taken 9/7/56. This is the no.1 engine looking to the cab end. British Railways.
9th July 1956
Underneath a Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City power car. Official image, negative 5C136, taken 9/7/56. This is from the rear of the vehicle looking towards the cab end. British Railways.
9th July 1956
The cab of a 79xxx Swindon Inter-City intermediate brake second, taken at Swindon Works on July 9, 1956. British Railways.
27th July 1956
A Swindon-built 79xxx Inter-City DMU at Swindon station on 27 July 1956. In the cab, left to right, are KWC Grand - the Western Region Manager, Harold Watkinson - the Minister of Transport, and the driver. They were part of a much larger group of officials that visited Swindon Works to view the construction of the new trains followed by on a demonstration run to London. Departure was at 3.55pm with arrival at Paddington scheduled for 5.15pm. British Railways.
27th July 1956
Officials - including Harold Watkinson the Minister of Transport on the left - inspect an AEC 220 150hp diesel engine which would be fitted to the Inter-City DMUs under construction in the background - at Swindon Works on 27 July 1956. Fox Photos Limited.
17th September 1956
A Scottish Region publicity image (negative 5314) captioned 'New diesel train passing border sign at Kershopefoot on arrival in Scotland". Taken on 17 September 1956, image courtesy of the AA MacLean collection. British Railways.
17th September 1956
A Scottish Region publicity image (negative 5315) taken at the border sign at Kershopefoot of three 79xxx vehicles on their journey north from Swindon Works on 17 September 1956. Image courtesy of the AA MacLean collection. British Railways.
12th January 1957
A Swindon Inter-City set in Edinburgh Waverley on Saturday January 12th, 1957. The sets had entered traffic on the Edinburgh - Glasgow route on Monday 7th, less than a week before. George Bett.
circa June 1957
A Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City DMU on a South Wales test run. This appeared in the August 1957 Western Region staff magazine, submitted by Carmarthen passenger shunter Peter M Ives, and so was presumably taken in the Carmarthen area. Peter M Ives.
12th June 1957
Railway officials at Cardiff on June 12 1957 after a demonstration run from Newport of a new Inter-City DMU (seen behind) which would begin services on the 17th. From L – R: ACB Pickford; Alderman JH Morgan, Lord Mayor of Cardiff; JHF Page, District Operating Superintendent, Cardiff; CH Swancutt, Stationmaster, Cardiff General; KWC Grand; Sir Robert Webber, President, Cardiff Business Club; Sir Brian Robertson. British Railways.
13th June 1957
Railway officials at Gloucester after a demonstration run of a new Inter-City DMU from Birmingham on June 13th 1957. Note Carmarthen on the roofboard, services didn’t run there in the initial introduction. L-R: RA Smeddle, RF Harvey, AW Woodbridge, RF Hanks, A Chamberlain. British Railways.
17th June 1957
Mr RH Hanks, Area Board Chairman, thanks the driver at Gloucester on the day of the inauguration of the new Birmingham - South Wales diesel service, Monday 17 June 1957. British Railways.
20th June 1957
A 3-car Swindon Inter-City set with buffet car is seen near Widney Manor on the 8.30pm from Birmingham Snow Hill - Cardiff General on the 20th June 1957, the first week of services. It would reach its destination at 11pm. Michael Mensing.
circa June 1957
A Swindon 79xxx series Inter-City trailer first vehicle circa June 1957 at Birmingham Snow Hill showing the roof board. The passenger accommodation was in compartments, one compartment having a door on both sides as an alternative to a stretcher window. Stuart Mackay Collection.