Vehicle 79186
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: 30324
Diagram: 633
Allocations
| Jul-56 | New to | 9A (Longsight) | |
| Jun-57 | Transferred to | 6G (Llandudno Junction) | |
| Jan-58 | On loan to | 24E (Blackpool Central) | |
| 4w/e 29/11/58 | Transferred to | 8C (Speke Junction) | |
| 4w/e 29/11/58 | On loan to | 27F (Brunswick) | |
| 5w/e 31/01/59 | Ex-loan back to | 8C (Speke Junction) | |
| w/e 02/01/60 | Transferred to | 6G (Llandudno Junction) | |
| 3w/e 31/01/65 | Transferred to | 1E (Bletchley) | |
| w/e 06/01/68 | Transferred to | 12B (Carlisle Upperby) | |
| Mar-69 | Transferred to | 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor) | |
| 19/04/69 | Withdrawn from | 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor) |
Notes
16/07/1956 - M79186/79191 began driver training from Longsight and Manchester (London Road) on Monday 16th July 1956. They made two morning runs to Buxton via Stockport and Whaley Bridge, and an afternoon trip to Macclesfield (Hibel Road) via Cheadle Hume.
Disposal
Scrapped by Arnott Young, Dalmuir arrived 07/10/69 cut circa late 1969
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 79186 | 79191 | As delivered to 9A - July 1956 | |||||||
| 79186 | 79191 | Noted 16th July 1956 | |||||||
| 79171 | 79186 | Noted 17th November 1956 | |||||||
| 79186 | 79189 | Noted 21/06/65 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 | |||||||
| 79186 | 79189 | Noted 31/05/66 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 | |||||||
| 79186 | 79672 | Noted 11/06/66 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 | |||||||
| 79186 | 79666 | Noted 01/08/66 - on Bletchley-Cambridge services1 |
Formation Sources
1: Roy Endersby
Images:
15th May 1966
Bletchley allocated Derby Lightweight power twin M79186 + M79189 at Oxford on 15 May 1966. Stuart Mackay Collection.