Class 142 - GW Chocolate & Cream 'Skipper' - 142015 - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Rugby Cement 5 ‘Easy Ride’ low track

5 ‘Easy Ride’ low track force bogies

Bagnall in Stafford and was one of the 377 locomotives built for the War Department and originally carried the number 75174

of which just two diagrams account for over half of the total

primarily as brake force runners

but other than a brief period of loan to Cardiff Canton in 1981 it was a solid but unexciting Eastern Region machine until it joined the exodus of Class 37s north of the border in May 1987

Class 142 - GW Chocolate & Cream 'Skipper' - 142015 - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Rugby Cement 5 ‘Easy Ride’ low track142015 (55556+55606) Exeter St Davids Paignton The next 13 units, 142015 142027, were for use on branch lines in Devon and Cornwall. New to Plymouth Laira between September December 1985 and branded as Skippers they were delivered in a chocolate and cream scheme in a reverse of the Great Western coaching stock livery, appropriate considering the GW150 celebrations that had been taking place that same year. This was applied to the same format as later