Bunhill: Painting Stagecoach
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Your support makes all the difference.TWO ITEMS on the only piece of British Rail to have been privatised to date . . . .
From the pathfinder prospectus for Stagecoach, the private bus company that is soon to come to the stock market: 'In May 1992, Stagecoach launched the UK's first regular privately operated rail service since 1947 on the Aberdeen to London overnight service. Following losses caused in part by retailing difficulties with British Rail, the contract arrangements were renegotiated . . . .'
And from the latest issue of Railway Magazine, the train-spotter's bible: 'The Stagecoach-liveried MkII coaches, Nos 6201, 02, 10, 24, 28, 32, were in the process of being repainted back into InterCity colours at the beginning of the year. The work was being carried out at Landore depot with the coaches being tripped to and from Swansea on the rear of the remaining loco-hauled service to and from York.'
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