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Hello

Can anyone help with the following please:-

Were any ex-LNER Thomson suburban carriages (including Lav composites) repainted into BR blue livery at the end of their careers  and if so are there any photos of them.

Thanks in advance

John

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'Don't think any made it into blue, by the time it came into play their numbers would have been pretty well decimated by the impact of a shrinking railway, even BR std suburbans were being culled before blue started to be applied. There were some Thompson corridor coaches that made it to blue and grey, mostly buffets, and the 6w BY full brakes lasted well into the 70s, a good number of which were painted blue.

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Hello

Thanks for your reply,I did think that might be the case, but wasn't sure as the only photos I have seen of them towards the end of their lives are in black and white and I wondered if the odd one had lasted to be painted blue.

Kind Regards

John

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