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I have just come across this pic. It shows a class 40 railtour tht featured two I/C liveried Pullman vehicles in the consist. https://flic.kr/p/22RA6v5

Sadly not ADB968008. 40013 and the rest of fleet other than D200 and the reinstated departmental quartet had been withdrawn by the time that pic was taken. 40013 was the LMRs exhibition loco for a while.

Class 40’s were never fitted with ETH though they were commonly seen on drags with a dead electric loco and A/C stock including Mk III’s but I think that all finished before IC executive livery started coming on stream. I will say though that I recall that one or more of the Class 40’s reinstated for the Crewe rebuilding were used more than once on drags. Just to be pedantic, D255 was fitted with ETH for a short while in the 60s, believe it or not!. I really am nit picking there!. Lol!

Class 40s were fairly common on air con stock on the Preston to Blackpool line. Ican even recall 25s on them. I don't recall any intercity liveried stock though. Here's a diversion over the S & C earlier that decade.

86251 was a rarity in that condition!

Hi all. The summer of 1984 was the last summer for the class 40 fleet as they were wound down. It was also the first summer that coaches appeared in red stripe inter city livery. I am aware that the first coaches to appear in this colour were mark 3s. Excluding D200 and the departmental quartet, did any class 40s haul trains containing the odd coach in the then new inter city livery?. I realise its a long shot and there would not be much opportunity for them to do so in the small 8 month time frame (May '84 to Jan '85) except for Sunday engineering drags, failures or maybe deputising for class 47s on the diesel hauled legs of Euston - Blackpool services for example, but did it actually happen?!!. I have never seen a photo of this combination...

Thought this early 90s footage may be of interest. Fast forward to around 11mins 40secs to see 86229 arriving with a mix of Mk 1 Mark 2 and Mk 3 passenger stock in same train. That was fairly common I hear you say. But in this clip, the Mark 1s are not just the usual BG and Buffet!. Youtube is a good source of the weird and wonderful. I have seen videos containing pairs of 86s on MGRs and a class 45 hauling Mark 3s for example

So 86s 206/209/212/221/226/240 and 255 are what we have unnearthed so far that had headcodes and names.

The domino 86s seem to be very rare. I've only seen a photo of 251 with them. I think that was unnamed on the photo.

Cheers Keefer. There are some archive photos of its naming ceremony on prestonstation.org.uk complete with curtains over the plate. Funny thing is, the curtains look like they are made from the same orange material that covered the seats of 1st Class Blue and Grey Mark 3s!!

From the internet. 86209. I have also seen a photo of 86212 and 86255 in this condition. How many others were there?!!

Hi one and all, Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I often wondered if the good old Hornby model of 86219 Phoenix was correct featuring a nameplate and headcodes set to 0000 instead of the the more usual sealed beam lights configuration. But I have recently seen a photo of 86212 in this condition and I'm pretty sure I've seen a photo of a further example as well. So my questions are, how many class 86s received names before their headcodes were plated over?. And which ones were they?!!. Photgraphic evidence seems thin on the ground!