Request for information - Class 150 livery information

[sawyerm1982]

Afternoon all,

I have a request for a little information on the wonder (ish) humble class 150/1 dmu's and also the pacers.

I recall seeing a couple of the later class 150/1's ie 150148, 150149, 150150 still in the BR sprinter livery with their larger front end numbers, once in Stockport, and once near bolton in the early 2000's. Can anyone confirm roughly when they were repainted into first northwestern blue with gold stars and if there are any photographs out there of them in this period this would be much appreciated as I want to include them on Oxford Rd, my layout based around the trains of manchester around 2002-2004 complete with the knitting (Layout topic and pics will come soon i promise).

Also, I saw class 142066 still in provincial blue during the same period at sheffield, when did this loose its provincial blue. I will attach a photograph of this unit taken at the time for anyone interested!?

Thanks for any help you can give me

Regards

Mike