Central Trains Regional Class 153

[northernrailer]

I am wanting to model a small terminus layout based on Skegness or Cleethorpes, i need to model a couple of class 153 units in Regional Railways livery with the Central Trains branding, does anyone have any pictures of Central Trains class 153 units in the Regional Railways livery they could post so i can model my 2 units exactly. I already have a class 156 in Regional Railways Express Livery, and a class 150/1 in Centro PTE colours limited edition of 150121.

All pictures would be appreciated, i did try to search pics of fotopic by unit number but it seems that there search is down again and comes back with "no pictures" "no galleries" or "no collections".

Also when did Central Trains take off the Regional lettering and replace it with Central Trains, and when did the snowploughs first start being painted Yellow instead of black.

 

[sprinterguy]

I have one photo of 153365 at Doncaster in 2004 in Reggie Railways livery with CT branding (attached below). I'm not sure when Central Trains removed the RR branding from the units, but it was definitely gone by this time.

As an inquisitive aside, I thought that the obstacle deflectors/snowploughs had always been painted yellow, and it was merely the accumulation of large quantities of track dirt over the years between coatings that completely obliterated any vestiges of this colour?

The 153s didn't have snowploughs when first converted, as the 155s before them didn't either (IIRC). They may have gained these around 1995. I wouldn't quote me on that though, I'm not really savvy on the subject of miniature snowploughs.