Class 50 - Revised NSE (dark blue w/WofE branding) - 50029 'Renown' Livery_NIR Blue 2c fleet was increasingly sidelined

2c fleet was increasingly sidelined with many examples withdrawn or sold abroad

Scale-sized and mounted snowploughs provided for customer to install

retaining its triple-grey livery but with the Mainline logo replacing the previous sector design

In January 1978 the ten-year old locomotive become the first of the newly-minted ‘Warship’ class to be honoured with nameplates following the easing of the ridiculous embargo on new namings

the Greater Anglia ‘short set’ passenger services between Norwich and Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft

Class 50 - Revised NSE (dark blue w/WofE branding) - 50029 'Renown' Livery_NIR Blue 2c fleet was increasingly sidelinedAfter the first run release of 50017, one of the first pair of Class 50s to be released in the original Network SouthEast livery, the calls for the later version of the scheme have become deafening. 50029 Renown was the last of 14 examples to gain the same paint job as Royal Oak in June 1987, which it swapped for the revised darker blue variant in December 1989 courtesy of Laira depot. Named in October 1978 and refurbished in May 1982, it had no idea