Vehicle 79614
Derby Lightweight
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Yellow Diamond
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30127
Diagram: 505
Allocations
| Jan-55 | New to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
| 4w/e 13/10/56 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| 4w/e 04/10/58 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| 4w/e 01/11/58 | Transferred to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 4w/e 13/06/59 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| 16/06/68 | Withdrawn from | 31A (Cambridge) |
Notes
24/01/1955 - 79022/79614 - test run on Wirksworth branch scheduled.
25/08/1956 - 79022/79614 noted passing on the main line at Barkston, August Bank Holiday Saturday 1956. It was working the regular SO diagram - 8.00am, 12.08pm and 4.15pm from Grantham and the 10.12am, 1.30pm and 6.30pm from Doncaster.
Disposal
Scrapped by A King, Norwich
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 79022 | 79614 | Noted 24th January 1955 | |||||||
| 79022 | 79614 | Noted 25/08/1956 | |||||||
| 79022 | 79614 | Noted 13/11/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 |
Formation Sources
1: Roy Endersby
Images:
January 1955
A Derby Works photo (negative 55/57) showing a new Eastern Region Derby Lightweight twin for Lincolnshire formed of E79614 + E79022 in January 1955. British Railways.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: circa late summer 1955
A Lincoln - Cleethorpes service formed of Derby Lightweight vehicles E79022 + E79614 with a parcels van in tow at Barnetby station. Undated, the image appeared in the November 1955 British Railways staff magazine so was probably taken in late summer 1955. RE Vincent.