GatwickDepress
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Quite a lot of graffiti in the Netherlands as well, but it isn't as bad as Belgium for the most part. It looks like InterCity stock tends to see the worst of it, like this poor koploper unit here. I presume the Sprinters are stabled in a more secure location, as I've seen plenty of graffiti on Sprinter seat cushions and in the toilets but rarely anything on the bodywork.It is off the scale in Belgium. They seem to have given up. With the older trains like class 21/27 and M4 carriages, it is impossible which are parked in a scrap line and which are still in service. Talking of creative, I have seen a photo of unit 816 which the spray can numptys have painted a whole carriage back into the red livery. I am trying to decide if it is an April fool or not. It is very convincing.
It is possible to get back from the state the Belgian trains are in. The New York Subway almost eradicated graffiti in the 1980s.