Class 142 - GMPTE Orange - 142003 (LSL preserved) - DCC Sound Fitted142003 (55544+55594) Crewe Special 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 delivered in 1985. Based out of

Custom programmed for accurascale Class 58 locomotives

Despite the best efforts of newly-installed greasing equipment

by which time it had gained a wide exhaust silencer and NRN radio pods on the cab roof

although ‘Big Music Week’ and ‘Hotel Transylvannia’ have featured

Initial allocation was to Tyseley but was soon sent North to Birkenhead

it wasn’t until June 2022 that it would achieve this goal

Scale-sized Brecknall-Willis High Speed pantograph raised and lowered by DCC control

brake cylinders

7820 Dinmore Manor was released with the rather garish red-backed name and number plates

Two years later in April 1985 it again received the attention of the painters

This was an appropriate nickname for a Great Western-designed machine wearing a livery inspired by the locomotives of the London & North Western Railway

he also set about standardising CIÉ’s fleet of rolling stock with his patented triangulated underframe providing the basis