This Wrenn BR Standard 4MT in pseudo-Caledonian Railway livery was undoubtedly influenced by Fairburn 2-6-4T No 2085 that was preserved for a time in the same livery at the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Steam Railway before being repainted into more prototypically-correct BR lined black. It was controversial and attractive in equal measures - in the first respect, even more so than the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s red Ivatt 2-6-2T, which is one of my personal favourites. Once again, the base image for this digital representation is 80135, preserved in BR lined green on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (17-Jul-22).
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This second version of the preservation-era ‘Caledonian Railway’ Ivatt 2MT carries the lighter St Rollox Blue livery. It’s not clear whether this superseded the darker shade - which became known as Perth Blue - or whether the two co-existed as in the case of the two variants of Apple Green applied by the LNER’s Darlington and Doncaster works. Fortunately, both blues survive in preservation on appropriate period locomotives (29-Jan-23).
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This fictional image depicts a preservation-era scene, since the original Caledonian Railway was incorporated into the London Midland & Scottish Railway several decades before the Ivatt 2MT saw the light of day. In more recent times, the Caledonian Steam Railway (Brechin) has operated a heritage railway service on the former Caledonian Railway line between Brechin and Montrose in Angus, Scotland. This pseudo-Caledonian Ivatt 2MT carries the original, darker blue livery that became known as Perth Blue once St Rollox Works began outshopping locomotives in the lighter colour applied by Wrenn Railways to its fictional Standard 4MT (27-Jan-23).
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Serving Aberdeen and the surrounding area, and linking Inverness via running rights over the Highland Railway, the Great North of Scotland Railway was the smallest of the five pre-grouping Scottish railways. Only the mainline between Aberdeen and Inverness remains, plus the short Keith & Dufftown and Royal Deeside heritage lines. As far as I’m aware, the only surviving ex-GNoS locomotive is No 49 Gordon Highlander in the Museum of Scottish Railways at Boness. Whilst fictional liveries do not seem to be in vogue, a pseudo-GNoS locomotive would surely have some appeal in its home region. The Aviemore-based Strathspey Railway was not part of the GNoS system but is probably the premier heritage railway in the Scottish Highlands (28-Jan-23).
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Like many of the pre-grouping railways, the Great North of Scotland favoured 4-4-0 steam locomotives for its principlal passenger services. The post-grouping Gresley D49 was a bigger locomotive with more modern features but some did work over former GNoSR lines. This digital repaint of preserved LNER No 246 ‘Morayshire’ is not a serious proposition but could, perhaps, have occurred on a temporary basis for a filming contract (28-Jan-23).
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