Unidentified Class swindon-79xxx DMU images
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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.
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.
March 1977
An "intermediate" 79xxx series Swindon Inter-City DMU at Ely in March 1977, condemned and waiting to go to King's at Snailwell. Robert Forsythe.
2nd July 1978
With 31225 passing by, several 79xxx-numbered early pre-TOPS class 126 cars are seen languishing in Ely yard, on their way to Mayer Parry's scrapyard at Snailwell near Newmarket, 2/Jul/1978. Robert Chilton.
29th November 1980
A DMS from the Swindon Inter-City 79xxx series awaits its fate at Mayer Newman Scrapyard, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire on a snowy November 29th 1980. A DMBS of the same type is on the left. Martyn Hilbert.
29th November 1980
A Swindon Intercity DMU 'leading' power car awaiting its fate, surrounded by other redundant rolling stock awaiting the end, at Mayer Newman's scrapyard at Snailwell in Cambridgeshire on a snowy November 29th 1980. To the left is another Swindon Intercity DMU car, whilst to the rear are two cars of London Transport CO/CP surface stock. Martyn Hilbert.
Unknown Date
A five-car (four power cars and one trailer) 79xxx series Swindon Inter-City DMU approaches Haymarket station circa early 1970s. Stuart Mackay Collection.
1983
Vehicles awaiting disposal at Snailwell in 1983, including three Edinburgh-Glasgow Swindon DMU cars. Joint Line.
1983
Snailwell scrapyard seen in 1983; on the left is a Swindon Inter-City DMU. Joint Line.
2009
A 2009 image of one of the ex-Edinburgh / Glasgow Swindon Inter-City vehicles in Liberia. It remains in the former workshop at Yekepa, robbed of pretty much everything in the years since LAMCO abandoned them. Mining had begun again in the area this time with the firm Arcol Mittal, and the railway has been re-opened but stopping just short of the old workshops. Thomas Johannesson.
2009
A 2009 image of one of the ex-Edinburgh / Glasgow Swindon Inter-City vehicles in Liberia. It remains in the former yard at Yekepa, robbed of pretty much everything in the years since LAMCO abandoned them. Thomas Johannesson.