Vehicle 79132
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: 30240
Diagram: 633
Allocations
| 03/03/56 | New to | 3E (Monument Lane) | |
| Jun-58 | Transferred to | 6G (Llandudno Junction) | |
| 4w/e 30/01/60 | Transferred to | Reddish | |
| 09/09/63 | Depot code change | 9C | |
| 4w/e 02/01/65 | Transferred to | 1E (Bletchley) | |
| 5w/e 12/08/67 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| P10/67 | Withdrawn from | 32A (Norwich) |
Notes
11/07/1956 - 79132/79654 and 79170/79671 were noted at Peterborough on the 1.45pm to Birmingham via Rugby.
18/08/72 - withdrawn vehicles 50775, 50780, 50813, 50816, 79059 and 79132 noted on Cambridge depot
Disposal
Scrapped by Bird Group, Long Marston
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 79132 | 79653 | As delivered to 3E - 3rd March 1956 | |||||||
| 79132 | 79654 | Noted 11/07/56 | |||||||
| 79132 | 79656 | 79190 | Noted 30/06/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 | ||||||
| 79132 | 79657 | Noted 17/07/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 | |||||||
| 79132 | 79672 | Noted 23/10/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services as 7-car with 79190 + 79656 + 79136 and 79901 + 796341 | |||||||
| 79132 | 79634 | Noted 11/12/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 | |||||||
| 79132 | 79654 | Noted 08/07/66 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 | |||||||
| 79132 | 79666 | Noted 07/04/67 |
Formation Sources
1: Roy Endersby
Images:
circa 1957
A two-car Derby Lightweight DMU arrives into Four Oaks station circa 1957. M79132 leads with "Birmingham via Aston" on the destination blind, it was a Monument Lane from new in March 1956 until June 1958 when it moved to Llandudno Junction. Stuart Mackay Collection.