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Vehicle 79193 / 79635


Derby Lightweight

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Yellow Diamond
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30325
Diagram: 510

Allocations

Aug-56 New to 9A (Longsight)
Jun-57 Transferred to 6G (Llandudno Junction)
Jan-58 On loan to 24E (Blackpool Central)
Jan-59 Transferred to 8C (Speke Junction)
Dec-59 Transferred to 6G (Llandudno Junction)
Jan-65 Transferred to 1E (Bletchley)
w/e 06/01/68 Transferred to 12B (Carlisle Upperby) - unpublished, assumed moved with 79633/4
Mar-69 Transferred to 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor)
19/04/69 Withdrawn from 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

79193 - original number
79635 - from 05/05/62 (conversion to trailer car)

Modifications

05/05/62 - Converted to DTCL - as 79635

Disposal

Scrapped by George Cohen Ltd, Kettering arrived 16/06/70 cut circa summer 1970

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


79188 79193 As delivered to 9A - August 1956
79185 79635 Noted 22/06/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1
79184 79635 Noted 25/06/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1
79133 79635 Noted 05/02/66 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1
79184 79635 Noted 04/06/66 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1
79187 79635 Noted 18/07/66 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1

Formation Sources
1: Roy Endersby

Images:

Derby lightweight at Heald Green

Unknown date

Derby Lightweight power twin M79193 + M79185 arriving at Heald Green with a Manchester London Road service (possibly the 10.55am from Alderley), date unknown. The DMCL would be converted to a DTCL as M79635 in May 1962. Stuart Mackay Collection.