The earlier of the two northbound Caledonian Sleeper Services, led by GBRf blue and orange liveried Class 92, 92043, cruising through Stafford station, having been held up by an earlier Crewe bound Desiro. GBRf provide the traction for the Caledonian Sleeper services under the Serco contract and although most of the GBRf 92's for this service wear the Cally Sleeper Teal colours as per the carriage stock, they still regularly use the GBRf liveried locos on this service.
There are three different liveries GBRf do with their Class 92s, there are the standard Teal Green ''Caledonian Sleeper liveried'' Class 92s, numbered 92006, 92010, 92014, 92018, 92023, 92033 and 92038, as seen below, at Crewe Station, with 92010 on duty:
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There's the standard GBRf blue and orange Class 92s in the livery seen here, 92020, there's also 92028, 92032 (seen below - on a railtour GBRf organised)
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and 92043, which is regularly seen on the Sleeper services, seen here below, at Stafford:
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There is also a third rarely seen livery, which harks back to the British Rail, Railfreight era, seen here, being moved by GBRf Class 60:
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The Class 92s were originally named after famous composers and writers, these names being (by loco)
92001 - Victor Hugo
92002 - HG Wells
92003 - Beethoven
92004 - Jane Austen
92005 - Mozart
92006 - Louis Armand
92007 - Schubert
92008 - Jules Verne
92009 - Marco Polo
92010 - Moliere
92011 - Handel
92012 - Thomas Hardy
92013 - Puccini
92014 - Emile Zola
92015 - D. H. Lawrence
92016 - Brahms
92017 - Shakespeare
92018 - Stendhal
92019 - Wagner
92020 - Milton - now Billy Sterling
92021 - Purcell
92022 - Charles Dickens
92023 - Ravel
92024 - J. S. Bach
92025 - Oscar Wilde
92026 - Britten
92027 - George Eliot
92028 - Saint-Saëns
92029 - Dante
92030 - De Falla Ashford
92031 - Schiller
92032 - I Mech E Railway Division
92033 - Berlioz
92034 - Kipling
92035 - Mendelssohn
92036 - Bertolt Brecht
92037 - Sullivan
92038 - Voltaire
92039 - Johann Strauss
92040 - Goethe
92041 - Vaughan Williams
92042 - Honegger
92043 - Debussy
92044 - Couperin
92045 - Chaucer
92046 - Sweelnick
