Class 142 - GMPTE Orange - 142012 Civil Engineer's Dutch Perfect to upgrade NEM socketed

Perfect to upgrade NEM socketed locomotives

A requirement for more heavy freight locomotives saw Colas Rail purchase the locomotive in 2014

British Rail split each unit into single vehicles

Completed at Vulcan Foundry in March 1961 and delivered to 30A Stratford

spending most of it in and around the NCB’s Hem Heath wagon workshops

Class 142 - GMPTE Orange - 142012 Civil Engineer's Dutch Perfect to upgrade NEM socketed142012 (55553+55603) Manchester Victoria (via Oldham) Blackburn The 1980s saw several paint schemes make the jump from bus to DMU as the Passenger Transport Executives (PTEs), later Authorities (PTAs), began to sanction repaints covering rolling stock they sponsored. One of the most attractive was the Greater Manchester Transport orange brown white that had been adopted in 1981 and this was applied to the first 14 Pacers 142001 142014 which were