Gloucester-based Advenza Freight was one of the smaller and shortest-lived open-access freight operators. It adopted a rich blue livery with bold and distinctive lettering for its small fleet of Class 47s, 57s and 66s. Its core business was the movement of scrap metal from Stockton-on-Tees, Hitchin, Sheerness and Shipley to Cardiff, using leased bogie box wagons; supplemented by stock moves for other companies. Sadly the business was wound-up towards the end of 2009, the venture presumably not having been a financial success (30-Oct-10).
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Here's one that hasn't previously appeared in my fotopic collection. This second fictional Advenza Freight image depicts a further locomotive type not actually operated by the company. In reality 31128 survives in preservation, restored to BR corporate blue livery, whilst a handful of its classmates soldier on with Network Rail and BARS (16-Mar-11).
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Foster Yeoman revolutionised freight haulage in Britain when it acquired five Class 59 diesel locomotives from General Motors between 1985 and1990. These outstanding traction units today carry the livery of Foster Yeoman's parent company Aggregate Industries and operate (with similar locomotives originally supplied to ARC) in the Mendip Rail pool. Whilst there is no reason to believe that any have these companies has subsequently looked elsewhere for alternative traction, it is interesting to speculate what a Vossloh G2000 would look like in the various liveries (20-Dec-12).
See also General Motors deiesel locomotive in Foster Yeoman livery:
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Firstly, apologies for any confusion caused by the substitution of the previous Class 68 image by this further version of the Vectron. This is down to a copyright misunderstanding on my part. The Class 68 will appear as soon as I am able to source an alternative base image.
I’m pleased how well this livery sits on the Vectron. Bus liveries do not always translate well onto railway vehicles and the earlier Arriva style looks uncomfortable on some stock. This revised style with deep blue swoops, which first appeared on Class 47 locomotives, is a distinct improvement. Arriva Trains has no current requirement for electric locomotives so this fictional image presumes a future franchise gain (08-Oct-13). Thanks to Maarten Otto for the source image (updated 08-Oct-13).
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This image makes an interesting comparison with the accompanying fictional Class 62 Vossloh Eurolight, from which the Class 68 was developed. Arriva did not operate Class 68s, but did lease three Class 67s from DB Schenker in 2012 to replace Class 57s on services between Holyhead and Cardiff in Wales. Whereas the 57s carried the full Arriva livery depicted here, the 67s carried a plain blue or turquoise scheme. Both types worked with fully-liveried sets of MklII coaches and Driving Van Trailers (updated 29-Oct-23).
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