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LOCOMOTIVE Services Ltd has purchased a third Class 142, currently at Eastleigh Works.
No. 142014 will join Nos. 142003 and 142007 already owned by LSL at Eastleigh.
A further HST power car No. 43059 is now in Blue Pullman livery, although unlike the previous examples, this one only carries the branding ‘Pullman’ not ‘Midland Pullman’.
HNRC has purchased the two remaining Mk.4 DVTs Nos. 82210/18 currently stored at its site at Worksop. Meanwhile, Network Rail has acquired two further Class 153 units Nos. 153379+153384, and GWR has bought No. 57002 – although it is understood to be for spares for its Class 57/6 fleet.