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It was probably one of these sometime in the late 70s/around 1980.

Never heard of Dellners being used on traditional hauled stock anywhere else, only on MUs. Mostly it's still traditional buffers and chain couplers elsewhere in Europe. Or custom MU-style shourt couplings in case of e.g. the Austrian Railjet

Sounds like a strange choice - what's wrong with the traditional Buckeye couplers?

From a quick look through a couple of picture galleries it seems like this loco may have had LL until it got EWS colours around 2000?

I actually meant to write 158s... D'uh. Still, I always thought they had been used in that traffic ever since they were new, which seems to have been wrong, although they can't have operated for long on the WCML before going to Scotland?

I guess if all else fail we could load this one onto a Viking Ship and send it across the North Sea...

Hopefully it won't be the wrong type of snow this time... :P

I always thought the Mk3s used on the Glasgow - Edinburgh Push-Pull services were used for that traffic ever since they were new and until the 156s came. So they were on the WCML for a short period first then.

A spin-off from my previous thread about locos delivered in Large Logo Blue... The late 70s and 80s were a period where a lot of new liveries were introduced - sectorisation liveries, and various "local" (PTE) liveries. Trying get a hold of which locos/trainsets had which liveries from new...

What I had in mind was that I seem to have seen somewhere that there used to be a rule that there should be one carriage with a brake compartment at each end of a trainset (e.g. a BFK at the front and a BG at the rear), at least for trains over a certain length?

I think all the Class 37/4s got the livery at the same time as they became /4 subseries locos? (Doubt they had it for long, seems most of them got either IC Mainline or Railfreight triple grey after only a few years). And a number of 47s? Plus the mentioned 50s of course. Did any 31s ever get...

HST delivered 1975-81 APT-P came in 1985 HST primarily built for ECML and GWML APT primarily built for WCML Why do people still push the fake narrative that the HST came because the APT failed?

Right, I Thought a few 56s would have had it from New. So only one 56 actually had the very first Railfreight livery from new?

Possibly some 56s, I guess, if it was the case, before the original Railfreight Grey tok over? Or was it only used on rebuilt/refurbished locos, such as the Class 37/4s?

The 40 or so first Flirt trains delivered to Norway came from Switzerland. The ones currently being delivered are built in Poland.

Will these new sleeping cars have shower (either in the comperaments or in one of the car ends)? Or will the UK still be one of the few European countries (together with Norway and possibly Finland) whose domestic night trains do not offer shower faciltiies?

Then of course the Japanese have this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M250_series Containers in 130 km/h on CAP gauge... Gives new meaning to "fast freight". As I said tho - niche market.

I think it was Talbot in Germany that came up with a container-carrying DMU some years ago, IIRC some even found their way to the UK for track maintenance work. There's definately a niche market for that sort of stuff but traditional freight trains are going to be with us for a long time yet.

I'd think that in many (most) cases the Sprinters would simply have been a lot more practical and economical to use.

According to Wikipedia there's a suggestion to re-engine a number of 56s