Class 142 - GW Chocolate & Cream 'Skipper' - 142015 Locomotive Type_Diesel & Electric as a 6-car unit

as a 6-car unit

Both units in our first run are taken from the second batch of units

while 2013/4 often saw it allocated for hire to Direct Rail Services for use on the ‘Tesco Express’

where it later suffered the same fate as the others stored at Alizay and was cut up in 2023

from Penzance to the Highlands of Scotland and Fishguard to Lowestoft

Class 142 - GW Chocolate & Cream 'Skipper' - 142015 Locomotive Type_Diesel & Electric as a 6-car unit142015 (55556+55606) Exeter St Davids Paignton The next 13 units, 142015 142027, were for use on branch lines in Devon and Cornwall. New to Plymouth Laira between September December 1985 and branded as Skippers they were delivered in a chocolate and cream scheme in a reverse of the Great Western coaching stock livery, appropriate considering the GW150 celebrations that had been taking place that same year. This was applied to the same format as later