84 - GER J67 - GER Ultramarine Wagon Type_NER 20T Hopper Small SR branding to bottom

Small SR branding to bottom left

One time only

The second half of the 1980s saw a potential new direction for the Class 50s as passenger work began to dry up

Heavy Die-cast metal chassis

and the company was one of the few that fitted their ex-NER P1 Chaldrons with additional ‘greedy boards’

84 - GER J67 - GER Ultramarine Wagon Type_NER 20T Hopper Small SR branding to bottomS56 Class No. 84 was one of the last batch of ten locomotives built for the Great Eastern Railway, to Order P57, at Stratford in 1904 and incorporated many of the improvements made to the R24 Class in the 1902 Improvement Programme. No. 84 is portrayed in the classic GER livery of Ultramarine Blue with Vermillion lining and shaded lettering, as it operated from Stratford Shed until being repainted into the GERs austerity grey livery in 1915.