bigboyboris Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 ~1994-5 seems like a very interesting period from the standpoint of having a variety of liveries, but given that they were geographical subdivisions I'm wondering whether it was actually common to see trains from all three shadow franchises in some places? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say steel traffic in the Birmingham conurbation was probably served by all three shadow FOCs, especially given there was domestic metal related flows in their own regions. Tenuous with Mainline, but they did Snailwell-Sheerness with 58s. C6T. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted May 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 3, 2018 Newport (Gwent) strikes me as a probable location where all three might have met, though how often, I couldn't say. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted May 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 3, 2018 Toton? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 ~1994-5 seems like a very interesting period from the standpoint of having a variety of liveries, but given that they were geographical subdivisions I'm wondering whether it was actually common to see trains from all three shadow franchises in some places? Bescot for certain. Davey Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil R Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Derby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Argos Posted May 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 4, 2018 Not quite what you were asking but certainly all three liveries were seen at Peak Forest once the Wisconsin Central take over occurred. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Carlisle.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
berwicksfinest Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 Definitely Peterborough TMD ! Had our pet 58023 in Mainline Loadhaul 56 (usually off the paper or flyash) Transrail 56 or 60 {on local trips or bricks) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Definitely Peterborough TMD ! Had our pet 58023 in Mainline Loadhaul 56 (usually off the paper or flyash) Transrail 56 or 60 {on local trips or bricks) I’m thinking he meansbefore EWS brought them all and everything went everywhere ? I’d think some of the collieries would see all three companies ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6, 2018 I think it was the summer of 95 loadhaul ran a train from port Talbot to Corby It used loadhaul loco's and wagons but to get it where it needed to go they hired drivers from transrail, RFd and mainline. I rode with it for its first six months of running but then it ran until EWS took over and it actually runs to this day. But that train took loadhaul liveried locos to south Wales Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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