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Vehicle 79263


Met-Camm Lightweight

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Yellow Diamond
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30191
Diagram: 593

Allocations

05/01/56 New to 32A (Norwich)
4w/e 25/01/58 Transferred to 30A (Stratford)
4w/e 23/01/60 Transferred to 32A (Norwich)
08/09/68 Withdrawn from 32A (Norwich)

Notes

05/01/56 - Two new sets - 79047/79263 and 79048/79624 - were noted passing through Coventry en-route from Metro-Cammell to Norwich via Peterborough E.R.

Disposal

Scrapped by George Cohen Ltd, Kettering arrived 02/03/70 cut circa mid-1970

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


79047 79263 As delivered to 32A - 5th January 1956
79047 79263 Noted 5th January 1956 - En route from Metro-Cammell to Norwich
79047 79263 Noted August 1956
79047 79263 Transfer to 30A - 4w/e 25/01/58
79047 79263 Transfer to 32A - 4w/e 23/01/60
79047 79263 Noted 26/08/67 - at Thetford1

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown

Images:

Met camm lightweight at Saltley Works

circa January 1956

An official Met-Camm image (negative DZ134) showing a new 'Lightweight' 79xxx series DMU. Despite 'Bury' being displayed on the destination blind, this is an Eastern Region set, E79263 + E79047 which would be allocated new to Norwich on 5 January 1956. Courtesy of the Kevin Dowd Collection. Metropolitan Cammell.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa January 1956

An official Met-Camm image (negative DZ133) showing a new 'Lightweight' 79xxx series DMU formed of E79047 (displaying Cambridge on the destination blind) and E79263. They would be allocated new to Norwich on 5 January 1956. Courtesy of the Kevin Dowd Collection. Metropolitan Cammell.