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AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
As at 18th December 2024 06:50 GMT
 
Re: AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
Posted by Witham Bobby at 11:03, 9th December 2024
 
2  Class 52 (D1000) "Western" diesel hydraulic sullied by photoshop FGW Barbie livery

Re: AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
Posted by grahame at 05:44, 8th December 2024
 
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

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

Re: AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
Posted by eightonedee at 23:45, 7th December 2024
 
3 is presumably one of the class 66s (or a model derived from it) sold to Deutsche Bahn, operating in it's home country

Re: AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
Posted by stuving at 23:22, 7th December 2024
 
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 is a Portuguese carriage, originally made in 1973 by Sorefame, and renovated by CP for use on regional services.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?

Re: AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
Posted by bradshaw at 17:27, 7th December 2024
 
6 A fictitious livery photoshopped onto the Cl 55
https://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/6226390473
Original inage at Shildon 2011

Re: AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
Posted by TonyN at 16:44, 7th December 2024
 
4. Is former BR 86250 working for Floyd railfreight in Hungary

Re: AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:07, 7th December 2024
 
5.  Is a 1938 Class 483 EMU, ex-tube stock, running on the Island Line, Isle of Wight.

Re: AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
Posted by brooklea at 13:10, 7th December 2024
 
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.

AQ07 - One for the anoraks!
Posted by grahame at 06:35, 7th December 2024
 
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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