Class 142 - GW Chocolate & Cream 'Skipper' - 142015 - DCC Sound Fitted Wagon Type_Bulk Grain Wagon was scrapped the following July

was scrapped the following July

it is also commonly used on less ominous stock and locomotive transfers

Built by CFMF of France for wagon leasing company STS (later VTG)

‘thunderbird’

originally being numbered as M53231 until a conflict with DMU numbering led to British Railways renumbering the 53xxx vehicles into the 43xxx range to avoid confusion

Class 142 - GW Chocolate & Cream 'Skipper' - 142015 - DCC Sound Fitted Wagon Type_Bulk Grain Wagon was scrapped the following July142015 (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