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Rail Enthusiast 1984 July MK I Sleeper Farewell Trans-Pennine twilight
Rail Enthusiast 1984 July MK I Sleeper Farewell
Rail Enthusiast is published monthly. Front Cover, Front cover by Murray Brown
The two re-liveried Class 87's, 87012 Coeur-de-Lion and 87006 City of Glasgow pose together for the first time on May 11 at Willesden.
Contents
News Focus
Four pages of picture coverage of all that's new on the British railway scene.Page 6
Trans-Pennine farewell
In their day, they were in the front line of passenger train progress. But the Trans-Pennine DMUs'
working life is now officially over. Murray Brown reports.Page 10
Going green
A fierce debate is in progress on the merits or otherwise of painting 50007, the former Hercules,
Brunswick green and renaming it Sir Edward Elgar. Our Rail Mail shows a 50-50 split.
Page 23
Perchance to dream...
The rule of the Mk 1 sleepers finally came to an end in Scotland on the morning of Monday, May
14. Peter Kelly takes a nostalgic journey on the 23.50 Inverness-Glasgow.Page 27
Grandads of the "Warships"
It seems to be all farewells this month, but we couldn't miss the opportunity of saluting the famous
V220 diesel-hydraulics of the German Federal Railways.Page 30
New colours on the WCML
Our centre spread by Murray Brown shows two variations on a theme with alternative "new looks"
for Class 87 Bo-Bos, now that they have been cleared for 110mph running.Pages 32-33
The Napier sound
Nostalgia for diesel fans with three photographs of Napier-engined locomotives on the East Coast Main Line a "Baby Deltic", a "Deltics" in early livery and the prototype "Deltic" itself.
Page 35
Southern cutbacks
In his final fully-detailed article about the new timetables, Geoffrey Freeman Allen looks at the
Southern Region which, if you disregard the prestige "Gatwick Express", is not such a happy
story.Page 36
Also: News, Page 15; DMU Notes, Page 20; Around the Regions, Page 21; Works Report, Page 26; Signalling Matters, Page 38; Looking Ahead, Page 39; Readers' Round-Up, Page 43; Departmental Notes, Page 52; Coaching News, Page 53; The RDS Column, Page 55; Wagons Roll, Page 56; All Change, Page 63.
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