92033 Railway Heritage Trust Caledonian Sleeper
With a very similar career to No. 92028, No. 92033 was one of nine SNCF-owned Class 92s and carried the name Berlioz after the French composer. Taken into stock in June 1995 its early career saw it plying its trade between Dollands Moor and locations such as Wembley and Daventry. Under EWS the fleet gradually spread their wings and the early 2000s even saw them working West Coast Main Line MGR coal workings and long-hauled Enterprise trains like the Mossend-Eastleigh ‘Enterprise’ wagonload services. Stored at Crewe IEMD in April 2006, No. 92033 was moved with several colleagues to Europorte 2’s depot in Coquelles, France in July 2011 after being acquired from SNCF, bringing all 16 of the non-Railfreight Distribution Class 92s under the same owner. Returned to the UK in the early 2014, it was moved to Brush Traction, Loughborough, for repairs and reliability modifications, which were completed in February 2015, the upgrade costing around £2 million. Initially released into traffic in plain teal for testing with No. 92018, the Caledonian Sleeper logos were applied at the start of April and this pair along with unrefurbished but repainted No. 92038 handled the early days of the new Serco sleeper contract along with hired in Nos. 86101, 86401 and 87002. No. 92033 returned to Brush between February and June 2018 for Dellner fitment and upgrades for working with the delayed CAF Mk.5 coaches, which in the end did not enter service for another 16 months. More recently, in May 2022, the Class 92 was dedicated Railway Heritage Trust at and event at London Euston, although sadly the nameplates were only vinyl embellishments.