European Railroad Discussion > Goodbye old friend

86235 and 86701 were loaded onto a road trailer earlier today at Barrow Hill on the first leg of their journey to Bulgaria, where they will join the Bulmarket freight operating company.

86235 still wears it's Anglia Rail aquamarine livery, 86701 is in Colas yellow and black.

Here's 86235 in its final 12 months of passenger service for Anglia, approaching Lancaster's Crossing north of Stowmarket in the autumn of 2004.

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All is perishable, but your name is continuing i hope.

Erwin from Austria

I feel your pain Nick. The local I took my TO handle from was abolished a couple years ago by NS.

Jim

Worse still the old girl is going to be dismantled and used for spares :-(

Sorry about this. All things seem to change, even those which seem immutable. I remember when they were brand new in 1965 - what was the real number? ( E31??). At least the class have outlived the Class 40s by over 20 years, and the Coronation pacifics by over 25 years, and in India they still have Morris Oxford cars and Royal Enfield motorbikes!



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E3194 variously named Novelty, Harold MacMillan and Crown Point. The electric blue AL6s were the first electric locomotives I had clapped eyes on. I was 11 in the summer of 1966 when I rode my bike from Muswell Hill to Kilburn High Road for my first sight of the LM's new electric trains. It was love at first sight 😁



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Here's an old B&W from about 1980 taken at Preston , my home town . I believe it was one of the first BR loco's painted in Large logo livery? Also carrying it's Rainhill Trials decals.
Andy

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That's nice, when it was called Novelty

That large logo livery really suited them. The first time i saw an 86 was as we drove down the M1 to London and the railway parallels the road at Watford gap...i saw 86214 'Sans Pareil' in the same large logo livery and thanks to the big numerals i could read the number!
At least there are still several other examples operating in freight service and on sleeper duties at the moment...



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