Andrew

Colour scheme looks a bit like this:

Thanks, Tony. Passenger trains on the DGR are normally no longer than nine coaches because that plus an engine will just fit into the headshunt:

The Central Wales Line is a very scenic route that runs from Shrewsbury to near Swansea. It belonged to the LNWR and then the LMS, and despite being transferred to the Western Region after nationalisation it continued to feature steam locomotives with an LMS flavour, as well as BR Standards, not to mention plenty of ex-GWR pannier tanks. I came across these old photos from the 1950s and '60s (taken yesterday!) which show a bit of the line's atmosphere. A BR Standard Class 4MT tank loco (with pre-1955 crest) on a pick up goods train. A local passenger train. The remaining pictures are of an ex-LMS 8F loco on a freight train.

The sleeper train to Fort William, in the charge of a BR Standard Class 4MT instead of the usual Black 5, rounds Sycamore Curve. Here crossing Foxdale Bank And here a ray of early morning sun catches the locomotive and stirs the sleeping passengers with thoughts of breakfast at Fort William

At Throstlebeck Sidings a 9F pauses near a train of empty coaching stock while a passenger train runs by on the main line.

Passenger trains weren't often hauled by Class 9F freight locos in the normal course of events (except on the Somerset and Dorset line), but here are some shots of just such a rare working. The mixed coaching stock suggests an inter-regional working of some sort. My video of another 9F hauled passenger train (made in 2013) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzP2KSfBppw