Grindlay's book "Motive Power Allocations", part 7, dmus, has a photo on page 16 of Met-Cam 'Yellow Diamond' driving trailer car E79264, stated at Swindon Works with very substantial damage to the roof, upper front cab and saloon, almost as if it has been smashed from above like the recent incident on the Cobham Line where a lorry fell from an overbridge onto a train. A black/white photo, it is still in lined green livery with small yellow warning panel. Reduced to a shell, undamaged door and window etc fittings have been cannibalised.
Thing is, these cars never left the Eastern Region, the surroundings don't look like Swindon, there is a lightweight overhead power catenary over the tracks which I don't recall at Swindon, the brake vans around it are not WR types, and E79264 itself appears from the adjacent list to have just been withdrawn in late 1968 along with all the rest of the batch, although the car is clearly one of this pioneer batch.
Anyone any idea where it is (is it a typo for Stratford Works?) and whatever was the accident that led to the substantial damage, which must have caused considerable comment at the time.
Thing is, these cars never left the Eastern Region, the surroundings don't look like Swindon, there is a lightweight overhead power catenary over the tracks which I don't recall at Swindon, the brake vans around it are not WR types, and E79264 itself appears from the adjacent list to have just been withdrawn in late 1968 along with all the rest of the batch, although the car is clearly one of this pioneer batch.
Anyone any idea where it is (is it a typo for Stratford Works?) and whatever was the accident that led to the substantial damage, which must have caused considerable comment at the time.
