Complex sentence: Green 1986, page 29 In the 1950s local managers ensured that the VoR remained well looked after, the coaches carrying BR's express livery and the locomotives gaining names in 1956 and fully lined express livery for the following season.
Split into simpler sentences: Green 1986, page 29 In the 1950s local managers ensured that the VoR remained well looked after. The coaches carried BR's express livery, and the locomotives acquired names in 1956 and fully-lined express livery for the following season.