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I was just thinking are greater anglias class 360s going to receive the white with red doors treatment soon?
I was just thinking are greater anglias class 360s going to receive the white with red doors treatment soon?
Weren't the 360s painted with some sort of graffiti-resistant paint which means they're a lot harder to paint over than other units?
It means they have to be fully sanded down before you can paint them
But they don't look like "barbie dolls" do they? They have a base of graffiti-resistant dark blue. The pink bits were vinyls that they haven't sported since First lost the franchise.
The real question is what are GA going to use as a substitute whilst they are away being painted ?.
There are not enough spare units as it is.
If you ignore the ribbon glazing, the different body profile, the different roof profile, the covered in underframe equipment areas on the 332/333s compared to the exposed mechanical and electrical equipment carried by the Desiros, and the fact that class 332/333 carriages are 23 metre vehicles whilst Desiros have 20 metre carriages?and other than paint scheme, a 333 centre car is visually pretty similar to a 360 one- the Desiro is a development of the 332/333
There was a class 360 driving car at Donny last week
Are you sure you didn't see a class 185 at donny they are desiros too
Nope, it was a doorless 360 DMS in full obsolete First Great Eastern livery. I'm one of the last people to be able to confuse a 360 with a 185!
There are 100% no GA 360's at Doncaster.
Was it in the unbranded First Group blue or FGW Livery?
There is a doorless, windowless First Great Eastern (Barbie!) liveried 321 Shell parked up in Wabtec Doncaster - this is a spare class 321 Bodyshell that spent many years over in Crewe before turning up in Doncaster reccently.