Locos and DMUs of north Derbyshire

[Lt_ELLZO]

Hi there, im thinking of making a fictional layout based in north Derbyshire, so sort of similar to Peak Forest line or hope valley (if if stated them incorrectly feel free to correct me) and i was wondering what locos and DMU's would run on it and in what livery. Im planning of basing it between 2000 and about 2008/9 maybe venturing on 2010. I'm Guessing 60's, 66's, maybe 56's, 150's, 156's and 158's?

 

thanks for any feed back

 

Elliott

[Lt_ELLZO]

Hope Valley Line in the earlier end of your period generally be Cl 158 on Transpennine Express and Central Trains Norwich>>Liverpool services, which sometiems ran a Cl170. Cl 142 and 150 with 101 upto 2004 on North West Trains/FNW local Sheffield>> Man Picc via New Mills.

 

cheers mate

 

thanks for the heads up

[zivadiva]

Hi

 

Its part of my commute home. So dont forget the 153 or 170's in fact central trains would stick a 153 with a sick 158 all the way from nottingham to liverpool via the hope valley line. So i suppose anything goes.

 

Ziva

[Edwin_m]

In my experience Norwich-Liverpool was usually a 170 in the latter years of Central - often a 3-car. Following the EMT takeover in late 2007 it went back to 158s in a weird and wonderful set of liveries including rebadged Transpennine. But only 2-car or occasional 4-car units as EMT didn't (and still doesn't) have any 3-car 158s. By this time the 158s had gone from the actual Transpennine service to be replaced by 185s. Recently 2-car TPE 170s have replaced the 185s on some of the off-peak diagrams.