Purists may not like this one. As far as I'm aware, no members of the Battle of Britain Class carried this express passenger blue livery - but several of the outwardly identical (but more powerful) Merchant Navy class did. Technically, both should have been green by virtue of their 6'2" driving wheels; but common sense or regional pride intervened in the case of the Merchant Navys. which were true express passenger locomotives. Indeed, the lighter Battle of Britain and its sister West Country Class were not far behind in terms of performance. Many were re-built by British Railways to eliminate innovative but troublesome original design features; and also to remove the streamlined casing to provide better access for maintenance. No 34501 Winston Churchill retained its original features to withdrawal and is preserved as part of the National Collection. Normally on display at the National Railway Museum at York, it was photographed here (in final BR green livery) at the NRM's Shildon outpost (03-May-16).
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It is perhaps surprising that no diesel multiple-units were painted in the standard lined maroon livery applied to hauled passenger stock. Whilst the obvious contenders would have been the Transpennine and Inter-City units, this fictional image depicts a more humble Class 104, which would have been more typically been deployed on branch line duties. The source image is the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway's green Class 108 at Oakworth in 2009 (23-Dec-10).
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I've previously illustrated this diminutive 88hp Ruston & Hornsby diesel shunter in British Railways departmental green livery. That particular locomotive, one of three allocated to the North Eastern Region, didn't last long enough to receive corporate blue livery. But it wasn't quite the end of the type; a solitary example, built in 1957, lingered at the Western Region's Reading Signal Works long enough to receive not only the blue livery depicted but, at a later date, stock number 97 020. It was withdrawn in 1981 and scrapped on-site the following year (12-Dec-10).
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This image depicts English Electric ‘Type 3’ (later Class 37) D6817 as running in green livery with full yellow ends in 1968. The ‘IE78’ headcode denotes an express passenger working (in this case a boat train) from Manchester Piccadilly to Harwich. Sprinter DMUs took over this working from the early 1980s (05-Nov-22).
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I've always thought that the Class 73 was a stylish design, notwithstanding its flat sides to suit the narrow Hastings line loading gauge. Not only that but it was technically very clever, combining the attributes of a mainline electric traction unit and a more modestly-powered diesel locomotive. Its 600hp diesel engine, intended for brief periods of operation off the third rail, has ensured its survival in large numbers: 19 of the 49 built have found new home on preserved lines across the company in a wide variety of (mainly) authentic liveries. It was a challenge to find something different for this collection of fictional images. I wanted to do something in Southern Region green and settled on this style based on the Class 71 electric locomotive preserved in the National Collection. I'm not sure whether the 73s carried this particular shade of green, but in any event the red and white lining seems to have been unique to the straight electrics (24-Aug-10).
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