loco log

Operators:

1998-Feb 2020: Virgin Trains Red & Black
1993-1998: Intercity Swallow
1984-1993: Intercity Mainline
1967-1984: BR Blue
1965-1967: Rail Blue

March 2016-Feb 2020: Freightliner
2005-Dec 2006: FM Rail
1997-2003: Virgin Trains West Coast
1965-1997: British Rail

Liveries:

Current Operator

N/A - Scrapped

Current Livery

Positional Purpose Only

Date

Change

Detail

February 2020

Status

Scrapped at Sandbach Commercial Dismantlers, Sandbach

March 2016

Operator

Transferred to Freightliner to be used as a source of spare parts

2005

Operator

Transferred to FM Rail from Virgin Trains West Coast

September 2003

Status

Withdrawn from traffic by Virgin Trains West Coast

1998

Name

Received the name "Lions Club International"

1998

Livery

Repainted into Virgin Trains Red & Black livery from it's previous Intercity Swallow livery

1997

Operator

Transferred to Virgin Trains West Coast from British Rail as railways are privatised

1993

Livery

Repainted into Intercity Swallow livery from it's previous Intercity Mainline livery

1984

Livery

Repainted into Intercity Mainline livery from it's previous BR Blue livery

June 1983

Name

Received the name "Sir John Betjeman"

1973

Number

Number changed to 86229 from E3119

1967

Livery

Repainted into BR Blue from it's previous Rail Blue livery

1965-1966

Status

Built at Doncaster Works for British Rail in Rail Blue livery