Class 142 - GMPTE Orange - 142012

Class 142 - GMPTE Orange - 142012142012 (55553+55603) Manchester Victoria (via Oldham) Blackburn The 1980s saw several paint schemes make the jump from bus to DMU as the Passenger Transport Executives (PTEs), later Authorities (PTAs), began to sanction repaints covering rolling stock they sponsored. One of the most attractive was the Greater Manchester Transport orange brown white that had been adopted in 1981 and this was applied to the first 14 Pacers 142001 142014 which were

Ticking off two big boxes on many customer wishlists is 37088 which responds to the calls for more Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns-constructed locomotives and for a run-of-the-mill 1970-80s BR blue split headcode machine

Roofs were painted white or off-white

Corrugated ends and flush sided doors

Visually 66001 looked more striking owing to its red grilles which were later changed to black

albeit with some exhaust and radiator grille modifications and the addition of top lamp irons on the nose ends

swap out a horn or whistle for another you prefer

The 'Final' Livery 37425 is depicted as now delivered into traffic

A matching crew designed and produced in the UK specifically for the Accurascale class 66 by our partners Modelu

New to Old Oak Common it would soon transfer to Southall where it would spend the rest of its working life until withdrawal on the 14th of September 1959

New to 86A Cardiff Canton in January 1965 and then to Swansea Landore in 1972

Nylon hood supported by three movable bars for protecting loads

now all scrapped