Class 50 - Large Logo w/grey roof - 50046 'Ajax' Unavailable Split Headcode with four-character display

Split Headcode with four-character display

Initially released into traffic in plain teal for testing with No

after some disastrous outings leading the newly won Caledonian Sleeper workings

It later gained the black roof version of the livery before being repainted in the original Network SouthEast scheme in July 1986

Large colour TFT screen displays clear

Class 50 - Large Logo w/grey roof - 50046 'Ajax' Unavailable Split Headcode with four-character displayThe mighty Ajax, the son of Telamon, second only to Achilles in the Greek warrior hierarchy, equal of Trojan champion Hector and also the most famous Class 50 that got away, being scrapped at MC Metals, Glasgow, in June 1992. It had donated its low hours power unit to 50007 in December 1991, around five weeks after working its last train, after Sir Edward Elgar had been sidelined with a main generator flashover near Basingstoke in July of the same