coradiafan2000
Member
What are these retro names that are getting repetitive? Look at recent franchise awards and you don't see any retro pre-BR names.
Greater Anglia
East Midlands Railway
Transport for Wales
South Western Railway (okay... at a push)
Transpennine Express
Northern Rail
We've had just two. Great Western Railway and London North Eastern Railway. Although that second one dropped the 'and'.
But ones like South Western Railway and East Midlands Railway still seem retro inspired and EMR has that maroon livery which seems to pay homage to the LMS. Not to mention LNWR and WMR, which you forgot to mention.