AC Cars Railbus images
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27th January 1968
The final day - 27th January 1968, and W79978 waits in Grangemouth station, and it would be the last railbus to operate in BR service. Hamish Stevenson Collection.
Unknown Date
Sc79979 at Craigentinny, now a grounded body. Date unknown. AA McLean.
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Sc79979 grounded at Craigentinny. Date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.
April 1969
Photographed in April 1969 W79977 lies at the south end of Millerhill Yard. It was withdrawn from service at the end of January 1968 when passenger services ended between Alloa and Falkirk / Grangemouth and was cut up on site by R B Hepburn in April 1969. John Clark.
17th June 1969
AC Cars railbus W79976 on Ayr depot on 17 June 1969. It had been withdrawn in February 1967 and the underframe equipment has been removed. Ed Sullivan Collection.
10th August 1969
W79976 was built by AC Cars in 1958 and delivered to the Western Region for staff training in August of that year. Alongside classmates W79975, W79977 and W79978, it was put to work on the Kemble-Cirencester Town and Kemble-Tetbury branch lines from February 1959 until closure in April 1964. W79976 and W79975 were used on services between Yeovil Town and Yeovil Junction starting from December 1964. When Yeovil Town closed in October 1966 the services continued through to Yeovil Pen Mill but the railbuses soon found themselves displaced by larger DMUs. As with the other AC Cars railbuses, W79976 was transferred to Scotland in January 1967 and operated around Ayr, chiefly on the branch line to Kilmarnock. However it did not last long in service and in January 1968 it was officially withdrawn. This Agfachrome transparency I took at Ayr TMD on 10th August 1969. Following withdrawal from BR and storage at Ayr TMD it entered preservation. Gordon Edgar.
26th May 1974
Take the wheels off and there you have it, a mess van. SC79979 was resident in Craigentinny for a number of years. Seen on the 26th May 1974, on the left can be seen one of the Derby Lightweight vehicles that were also used there after withdrawal from passenger duties. 54A South Dock.
February 1977
SC79979 AC Cars Railbus Craigentinny February 1977. A sorry affair involved the recovery and removal of this unit to the Strathspey Railway in the early 80s where it was discovered to contain asbestos which was too costly to remove so it was taken to Glasgow for disposal. Alistair Ness.
February 1977
SC79979 AC Cars Railbus Craigentinny February 1977. A sorry affair involved the recovery and removal of this unit to the Strathspey Railway in the early 80s where it was discovered to contain asbestos which was too costly to remove so it was taken to Glasgow for disposal. Alistair Ness.