Mark 2c BSO DB 977787While most Mk. 2c retained their blue grey livery during their often short departmental service, one of the most colourful and long lasting vehicles was Civil Engineer InterCity West Coast Staff & Tool Coach DB 977787, renumbered with few obvious external or internal differences from Brake Second Open M9453 in May 1992. One of three BSO to transfer to departmental use and one of just a handful of coaches to be repainted in the grey yellow Dutch

with large sound capsules for best possible sound (DCC Sound models only)

for export traffic

connected at the wagon via prototypical cotter pin coupling

Although B&W Renfrew manufactured huge boilers for both conventional and nuclear power stations

Unpainted HYA with Touax branding

Exhauster Panel : No

Designed specifically for the accurascale Class 37  locomotive with ‘Original’  Engine Configuration

Different buffers for retracted and non-retracted positions

Evening Star which famously brought the curtain down for steam production for British Railways

P7 Hopper - NCB Ashington: NCB Red - Triple Pack

2s back to service in due course

It later moved to Crewe and became part of the depot’s electric locomotive test train