Riviera Trains
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Riviera Trains is a railway spot-hire company, based at Crewe in Cheshire. It owns a small fleet of Class 47 locomotives, were are hired to both passenger and charter train operators. One of their main customers was Arriva Trains Wales, which hired locomotives to haul Manchester to Holyhead services but finished in February 2005. The fleet is also used to haul "Foot-ex" specials from the North-West to Cardiff, to transport football and rugby fans to the Millennium Stadium.
One of the locomotives, no.47839 was the first to be painted in the corporate Oxford Blue livery. Most of the fleet retained the livery of their previous operators until late-2006, when three further locomotives were painted blue. Of the rest of the fleet, no. 47812 was painted into BR Two Tone Green in late November 2005 to match its sister no. 47815. In September 2006, all operational Class 47 locomotives, with the exception of nos. 47769 and 47815, were due to be hired to Direct Rail Services for a period of one year.
Riviera Trains are also launching a rake of Mark 2F coaching stock early in 2006, called "The Great Briton" where all the coaches will be named after famous Britons, such as Shakespeare and Churchill.
[edit] Fleet Details
| Key: | In service | Withdrawn | Preserved | Under repair | Sold for further use | Scrapped |
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| Number | Class | Name | Livery | Year Acquired | Former Operator | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08780 | 08 | - | Oxford Blue | 2003 | ex-First Great Western | Operational |
| 37383 | 37 | - | Mainline Freight Blue | 2000 | ex-EWS | Withdrawn |
| 47575 | 47 | - | Parcels Red | 2004 | ex-EWS | Currently loaned to East Lancashire Railway |
| 47705 | 47 | Guy Fawkes | LNWR Black | 1997 | ex-Waterman Rail | Sold to Porterbrook in 2002, and converted to 57303 |
| 47769 | 47 | Resolve | Virgin Red/Black | 2004 | ex-EWS | Operational |
| 47805 | 47 | TALISMAN | Oxford Blue | 2005 | ex-Porterbrook | Operational |
| 47812 | 47 | - | BR Two Tone Green | 2005 | ex-Porterbrook | Operational |
| 47815 | 47 | Great Western | BR Two Tone Green | 2005 | ex-Porterbrook | Operational |
| 47829 | 47 | - | Police | 2005 | ex-Porterbrook | Stored unservicable at Crewe |
| 47839 | 47 | PEGASUS | Oxford Blue | 2002 | ex-Porterbrook | Operational |
| 47843 | 47 | VULCAN | Oxford Blue | 2005 | ex-Porterbrook | Operational |
| 47847 | 47 | - | BR Blue Large Logo | 2005 | ex-Porterbrook | Operational |
| 47848 | 47 | TITAN STAR | Oxford Blue | 2005 | ex-Porterbrook | Operational |
| 47853 | 47 | Rail Express | XP64 Blue/Red | 2002 | ex-Porterbrook | Operational |
