British Railways issued its ‘go blue’ edict following the trails with Class 47 D1733 and the XP64 stock in 1964. All gangwayed, locomotive-hauled coaching stock was to be painted blue and grey, but many DMUs would receive plain blue, including the ‘101s’. Initially, small yellow panels were the order of the day, rather than full yellow ends, a ruling that soon changed making the combination of blue with a yellow panel very much of a rarity. The ‘blue square’ coupling code can be seen at the extremities of the panel in this view taken at Towyn.
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