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So basically: From Glasgow - BSO-TSO-TSO-SLEP-SLE-SLEP-BG (non-aircon Mk2s. 90mph-only BG) From Carstairs - BSO-TSO-TSO-SLEP-SLE-SLEP-BG-BG-BSO-TSO-TSO-SLEP-SLE-SLEP (with Mk2s in this part aircon)

Didn't parcels van run in their own dedicated services as late as summer of 1991 though?

Still a weird number of BGs and formation for a sleeper train

What would all those BGs be for though?

Euston - Glasgow Central sleeper at Carlisle in July 91: Looks like three or four GUVs up front, then two BGs? Then at least one seater (the blue/grey one)?

The list of formations I quoted, was from autumn 1991, where one rake included a BSO (based on the carriage numbers) - by that point, based on youytube clips and photos, it seems XC rakes were still mostly 5 TFO-RFO-BG, with the 5 TFO-Mk1 diner-BFK rakes having been discontinued when more HSTs came into use by XC, BSOs not becoming common in XC rakes until 1993ish (possibly after BSOs were freed up with the removal of seating from most anglo-scottish sleeper trains)?

Do you by any chance remember which XC trains those would've been? BSOs in XCs can't have been common at this time?

Flickr claims Edinburgh to Penzance sleeper although I'd suppose it's rather the Cross Country Sleeper, in September 91. Looks like a BG, 4 SLEPs and then an unknown number of Mk2s?

Can anyone make out what the last car is here: It's obviously a Mk2d BFK and then presumably a TSO, but is it a second SLEP at the rear, or another TSO?

(Did the Night Riviera even have RLOs in the "Mk2" era? AFAIK they were, at least initially, all meant for the Anglo-Scottish Sleepers)

RLO? Doesn't the Night Riviera run with all Mk3 stock now, including the Mk3b (ex-)BFOs? So they'd likely be RFMs or similar?

Wouldn't it technically be possible to order a couple similar (but shorter) sets for the Night Riviera?

AFAIK Nightstar was supposed to go to much of the same destinations as the regular domestic night trains, isn't it a large chance that if Nightstar had actually been established, and been reasonably successful, it'd have killed off the domestic night trains anyway? Or were they to be banned for domestic travellers?

Weren't the Nightstar still supposed to be a thing at this point? AFAIK it wasn't (officially) cancelled until after privatisation?

Actually, it seems, once again based on the 1992 "Locomotives & Coaching Stock", that all the Sleepers assigned to the Western Region were SLEPs only. Same goes for those assigned to Cross Country. Meaning that both the Night Riviera and the Plymouth - Edinburgh - Glasgow sleepers would've only had SLEPs at this point...