Vehicle 79251
Derby Lightweight
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Yellow Diamond
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30178
Diagram: 505
Allocations
| 04/06/55 | New to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| 09/09/56 | Transferred to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| 04/06/58 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| 29/06/58 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | |
| 3w/e 04/07/59 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | - Not noted on vehicle record card. |
| 4w/e 28/11/59 | Transferred to | 32A (Norwich) | - Not noted on vehicle record card. |
| 16/10/66 | On loan to | 64H (Leith Central) | |
| 06/11/66 | Transferred to | 64H (Leith Central) | |
| 12/06/67 | Withdrawn from | 64H (Leith Central) |
Disposal
Scrapped by TW Ward, Inverkeithing
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 79035 | 79251 | As delivered to 32A - June 1955 | |||||||
| 79035 | 79251 | Noted July 1955 | |||||||
| 79035 | 79251 | Transfer to 30A - 09/09/56 | |||||||
| 79035 | 79251 | Noted 17th September 1956 | |||||||
| 79035 | 79251 | Noted 18th January 1958 | |||||||
| 79035 | 79251 | Noted June 1958 |
Images:
circa May 1955
An official image (Derby Works negative 55/454) showing E79251, a DTCL for East Anglia, circa May 1955. It was new to Norwich on June 4, 1955. British Railways.
July 1956
Wells-on-Sea (renamed Wells-next-the-Sea the following year) has 2-car Derby Lightweight E79251 & E79035 visiting for trial and and driver training purposes. Claud Class D16/3 4-4-0 No. 62564 awaits to take over the passenger train, July 1956. Russell Walker Collection.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: July 1956
E79035 + E79251 rounds the curve at Wymondham South Junction on crew training from Dereham-Norwich Thorpe, July 1956. Russell Walker Collection.