Class 142 - GW Chocolate & Cream 'Skipper' - 142015 - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Rugby Cement but other than a brief

but other than a brief period of loan to Cardiff Canton in 1981 it was a solid but unexciting Eastern Region machine until it joined the exodus of Class 37s north of the border in May 1987

While most Mk

all locomotives must be created and managed locally on the Mobile Control Pro

5 ‘Easy Ride’ low track force bogies

Even though it was delivered almost two years after the Great Western Railway was nationalised

Class 142 - GW Chocolate & Cream 'Skipper' - 142015 - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Rugby Cement but other than a brief142015 (55556+55606) Exeter St Davids Paignton The next 13 units, 142015 142027, were for use on branch lines in Devon and Cornwall. New to Plymouth Laira between September December 1985 and branded as Skippers they were delivered in a chocolate and cream scheme in a reverse of the Great Western coaching stock livery, appropriate considering the GW150 celebrations that had been taking place that same year. This was applied to the same format as later