night riviera sleeper consist (1980's)

[50048]

Hi everyone.
This is my first post on this site.
When I was a young lad, I lived almost under Brunel's Viaduct in Maidenhead/Taplow. Growing up I used to enjoy watching the trains going over. Can anyone help me with a typical consist of the "night riviera" in the mid to late 1980's. Did the class 50's in NSE livery ever haul this train? Moving back to Australia in the early 90's I never lost the interest in british railways, but there is a lack of information on the other side of the planet.
Cheers

 

[43167]

I think in the early NSE days it would have been fairly common for a NSE 50 to end up on the Night Riv.

Think it was also possible to see NSE 50's+matching daytime stock all the way to PZ.

 

[Masbroughlad]

I would love to see some pictures if anybody has them please. (some from the mid 70s too-I used to watch them then).

 

[Sun Chariot]

Some months ago, I found some very useful info regarding 1980's formations; I've Googled a bit but can I find the darned site now...

Back in '88 I photographed a pair of 50s at Paddington one morning as they arrived on the 'up' Night Riviera.

If I recall correctly, the typical 1980s-early '90s train formation was:

2 NXX (Motorail 'GUV')
1 Mk 2d BSO
2 or 3 Mk 2d/e TSO
1 Mk1 RB (until superseded by the Mk 2f RFB)
3, 4 or 5 Mk3 SLEP (lighter loadings during winter timetable)
1 BG

The last SLEP and BG was the Plymouth portion (removed at Plymouth and shunted into the bay platform on the south east side).

 

[Birdbrain]

In the early 1980's it would have been a 50, sometimes with a 31 joining between Plymouth and Newton Abbot.