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| P10/67 | Withdrawn from | 32A (Norwich) |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18/08/72 - withdrawn vehicles 50775, 50780, 50813, 50816, 79059 and 79132 noted on Cambridge depot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.
circa 1959
A Derby Lightweight twin, M79132 closest, at Llandudno Junction circa 1959. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: unknown
Ex-works M79653 and what looks like M79132 at Derby, date unknown. On the DTCL the number seems to have been marked on the first passenger window, and the front and rear parts of the solebar have been painted in gloss black, but the rest in a different shade. Stuart Mackay Collection.