GNER soon made changes to the livery, introducing Gold lettering for its GNER name and elaborate multicoloured cast metal crests for its coaches! These were interesting as they had to cope with the tumblehome of the coaches and so were suitably curved at the bottom! By the mid 2000s, GNER were repowering their HSTs with new engines and the Power Cars were renumbered by adding '200' to their number, eg 43100 became 43300 and 43089 became 43289. Here are 43300 and 43289
When the Gold lettering and the Crest were first introduced, the Power Cars were still running with Paxman Valenta power units and so remained numbered in the 43002 - 43198 number range. Only when the power units were changed for MTU units, around 2007 / 8, were the Power Cars renumbered. 43105 'City of Inverness' and 43118 'City of Kingston upon Hull' are represented here. I do not know why 43118 has this name as originally 43116 was named after my home city.
