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Some of you in the UK may have seen this, and some of you expats will have heard of Eddie Stobart...well they have some of the Tesco contract in the UK and to ease congestion and save time, they have a train running goods up from Crick in the Midlands, to Glasgow.

See it at http://www.wnxx.net/pix/mg/0609/66411/6 ... 0Sweet.htm it's quite nice acctually.

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Its a shame Stobart havent kept their green colour scheme on the locos, although, I suppose the blue matches the tesco wagons.
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They named it Eddie?
Nice N2 I've got here. Probably send it to 'The Cross'.

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Yes, people mention the Blue, and the boys name, well a few years back, they were going to start doing it, and they had a series of paintings done, and one was of a class 37 in acctual stobart livery called Norman (after the first driver) and they said then that they would all get boys names.
Yes they are blue and named after boys....the trucks are green and named after girls!
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All quite cunning marketing. I remember them trying to get people (kids) to start "Eddie Stobart" spotting in the 90s...


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richard wrote:All quite cunning marketing. I remember them trying to get people (kids) to start "Eddie Stobart" spotting in the 90s...


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What do you mean to start spotting :lol: :lol:

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I forgot to renew, an don that, I just remebered the Graham Farish club from July!
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I prefer the Malcome one. At least its not green though, quite catchy paint scheme
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Malcoms have 2 acctually, 66404 + 405, but this is the all new one!
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