Sealink Rolling Stock Question (past times)

[03_179]

Who remembers the old Sealink coaching stock?

I am after information:

What stock these were formed of?

What was the usual formation etc.?

The routes they ran on?

Usual loco that would haul these trains?

Thanks guys

 

[30907]

If you mean Sealink branded coaches, then memory says, and a quick image search online confirms, they were for Glasgow-Stranraer (there were matching liveries on some NIR units); the photos show only 47s. See also

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=25822

 

[Hunslet]

I remember a Class 27 hauling the train to Stranraer on a few occasions. Northern Ireland Railways had one of their 70 Class DEMU 3 car sets painted in a matching livery.

 

[sprinterguy]

It's difficult to overlook the Sealink stock, offering as it did a bright splash of colour at a time when the majority of coaching stock was still drab (but smart, except when (often) scruffy) blue and grey.

The Sealink stock was made up of mark 1s, allocated to Polmadie depot. Delving back into the mid eighties (somewhere I can usually be found loitering anyway), there were a number of corridor seconds (SK) in the form of vehicles 18385/369 and 24844/848/856/880/884/890/894/900, and BSKs 35069/070 in the livery. I think that this allowed for two rakes of six carriages (5 x CK plus 1 x BSK), often supplemented by a standard blue and grey BG luggage van.

Photos I have seen show class 47s being typical for traction and 37s not unusual. F'rinstance, see here for a typical formation:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3308904

And here's a shot of Proto-Pacer haulage on the Irish train, just to prove that anything is possible. (Although in all honesty, it will have been the railbus that was being hauled).
http://www.geograph.ie/photo/2318080

There's a nice photo here (not mine) of the most part of the Provincial operated, Sealink liveried rolling stock being hauled by a Scotrail branded, Intercity Executive liveried loco on a tour towards the end of its' life that comes with a bit of additional information on the rolling stock:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-diesels/5695784860

 

[03_179]

Many thanks all.

Sprinter guy ... that is great. I remember seeing a photo of the stock in Rail mag many many moons ago, recently I was talking with someone about our old BR days and it stirred the memory.



Thanks

 

[theblackwatch]

Was 35072 not also in Sealink colours?

 

[sprinterguy]

Was 35072 not also in Sealink colours?

Apparently so, according to the caption on the final photo I linked to: There's a couple of vehicles listed there that must have been withdrawn by the time of publication of the 1987 Ian Allan pocket book I was reading from.