Actually i think there is a departmental 101 in NR yellow out there.

10 years ago now (summer 2000) we went on a 101 dmu out of Glasgow Central to a suburban destination and very soon after that they were withdrawn. If I remember right, they were painted in that rather unimaginative all-over darkish blue colour. Personally I don't have very positive memories of them - noisy, poor performance and stank of diesel fumes - but they're very much part of our railway heritage now.

There was, it was Lab 19 - Iris 2.

http://www.traintesting.com/iris1&2.htm

Most were Regional Railways livery wih Scotrail Branding, bu atleast one was orange and black (strathclyde PTE livery) and one was in an all over 'caledonian' blue livery.

http://homepages.tesco.net/~rob.coll...piccadilly.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastarial/2767172901/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:101692_at_Arley.JPG

Cheers for your information and pics:D

The class 101 units which operated from Chester TMD were certainly blue/grey, and some cars, reallocated from Scotland, carried the orange/black Strathclyde livery, some full units, some as hybrids:-
http://daverowland.fotopic.net/p44654411.html
:)

Super pictures Dave!! miss all the old trains at chester!! they were the good days.......:)

Now you have got me thinking - back in the times of BR blue, DMUs were blue and the main line Mk II coaches were blue and grey.

Anybody remember the discussion and dis-approval when BR started putting blue and grey on DMUs? The feeling was that blue and grey was appropriate for main line but not for the rocking and rolling of a DMU. If I remember it was the Trans-Pennines sets that first got the blue and grey.

I will look up my Railway Worlds to find out if I can find some of the discussion.

Thanks mate! As I recall, when the first generation Chester DMUs were being replaced by 150/0, 150/1 & 156 class units, most of the old units were put into store at Chester TMD; invariably the new units had considerable running-in problems, and a good many trains were cancelled. As the old units had just been left in the open, they weren't operable, and bus replacement services were often the order of the day. Although I live on the south coast, i regularly visited friends in Wrexham, usually travelling via Crewe & Chester; the problems that arose caused me untold headaches - after ringing up my mate (6 miles out of Wrexham, no bus service), I'd tell him what time the train was due to arrive at Wrexham, he'd dash off to the station to pick me up, and I'd arrive an hour later than planned - on a bus. And no mobile phones then....
I do remember writing down train numbers at Chester in the late 80s, and asked a youngish chap if he'd got the numbers of an old DMU that had just left. "No, I don't bother with them" he replied. "Why not?" says I. "Well, they're not going to be around for long, so it's not worth it" he says. Hmmmm. By the same reasoning, was it worth noting the numbers of class 20, 25, 26, 27, 31, 33, 37, 40, 45, 46, 47, 50, 52, 55, 56, 60, 73, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90, .... if you see what I mean? :confused::)

yer very true........

miss the old blue and grey dmu days!! only time i go back to those days is when i go upto Llangollen for the Dmu weekends.........:D