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« on: December 07, 2024, 06:35:46 »
I'm usually concerned with customers - passengers - and not the physical trains. However, here are some pictures of unusual trains / liveries.  Can you recognise them?

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A couple of sources to be acknowledged there once identified.
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« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2024, 13:10:49 »
1. Is the Swanage Railway’s DMMU (Diesel Mechanical Multiple Unit), a class 117 leading a class 121 ‘bubble car’ between Corfe Castle and Norden.

Neither train is particularly unusual in it’s own right, but the fact that they are registered for mainline running, and have carried fare-paying passengers on the national network in recent years, does make them unique.

Sadly those days seem to have passed, and I don’t expect they’ll be seen running into Wareham under their own power anytime soon.
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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2024, 16:07:17 »
5.  Is a 1938 Class 483 EMU▸ (Electric Multiple Unit), ex-tube stock, running on the Island Line, Isle of Wight.
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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2024, 16:44:47 »
4. Is former BR▸ (British Rail(ways)) 86250 working for Floyd railfreight in Hungary
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2024, 17:27:55 »
6 A fictitious livery photoshopped onto the Cl 55
https://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/6226390473
Original inage at Shildon 2011
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2024, 23:22:28 »
7. is a Portuguese carriage, originally made in 1973 by Sorefame, and renovated by CP for use on regional services. They do look rather American, and apparently the local welded stainless steel designs were inspired by some bought from Budd in the 1940s. Ages well, that stainless steel, doesn't it?
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« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2024, 23:45:19 »
3 is presumably one of the class 66s (or a model derived from it) sold to Deutsche Bahn, operating in it's home country
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« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2024, 05:44:10 »
Quote from: bradshaw on December 07, 2024, 17:27:55
6 A fictitious livery photoshopped onto the Cl 55
https://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/6226390473
Original inage at Shildon 2011

The fictitious livery web site is at http://www.25kv.uk/fictitiousliveries.php an there are some wonderful proposals there

Quote from: eightonedee on December 07, 2024, 23:45:19
3 is presumably one of the class 66s (or a model derived from it) sold to Deutsche Bahn, operating in it's home country

Not quite - not Germany

And, yes, Portugal, Hungary, Shanklin and Swanage all correct
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2024, 11:03:44 »
2  Class 52 (D1000) "Western" diesel hydraulic sullied by photoshop FGW▸ (First Great Western) Barbie livery
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