I must admit, I do quite like this render. Maybe the doors could be a different colour such as dark blue or something to contrast it with the red roof, but otherwise it does look quite similar to the simplistic yet smart and effective liveries of SBB and TfW that can be used on all kinds of rolling stock.
Well that took way too much time to find...
I suspect it might be something a employe at the depot snuck on like the NSE stickers put on the front of various Southeastern networkersWell that took way too much time to find...
Far too small, almost pointless having it. Why is it even there?
Photo of GWR 802 114 from Flickr taken by Colin Peachy.
Even back in the 1990s when many local services in West Yorkshire were branded (and even named on announcements) as "MetroTrain"... they were still run by Regional Railways.
Thank you
When I grew up in the 1970s, generally speaking, suburban stock was blue and express stock was blue & grey. Easy!
What about black with grey/silver doors?
Yes, may'be so!
No I believe it is official, its certainly been there for a couple of years, one at each end, possibly as part of a DFt experiment. Agreed that if rolled out, it would need to be 2 or 3 times bigger.
What is needed is a simple, effective livery that doesn't involve vast acreages of vinyl. Vinyl just encourages the designers to get their crayons out to create a "current" complicated design that rapidly dates and looks shoddy.
I am well aware of how Regional Railways/Northern were ones to actually operate Metrotrain yet though many means such as control over extra funding, them owning some of their own rolling stock, and legal powers granted to the PTE were able to have a great deal of control over the management of the local services. I do not think that West Yorkshire will ever operate the West Yorkshire suburan trains themselves especially not before TfL starts doing so.
Transpennine Express was trademarked by British Rail in 1993.
Just one TOC (Northern Spirit) initially. The North Western services only became part of TPE later on. Northern Spirit used the Trans-Pennine Express name from day one, with a separate pink livery on the 158s as opposed to the green livery applied to 142s and 156s.
I do wonder... assuming the Azuma/Evero/Paragon/whatever brand names for the IETs are going to be retired... will they be given different names? I feel like A-train or AT300s could work.Class 800 units should be rebranded 'Intercity 140' and in a modern day 'Swallow Livery'..
Isn't the name "Azuma" attached to the East Coast mainline becasuse it is Japanese for east?
They should be all-over maroon. That will then weather to a turd brown colour to match the quality of the train.Class 800 units should be rebranded 'Intercity 140' and in a modern day 'Swallow Livery'..
Completely disagree. You cannot call the intercity fleets Azumas. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to the majority of the country. Its just sounds like one of those dated meaningless buzz words. At least IET does what it says on the tin, and follows on from the successful HST. Its also timeless in a way Azuma will never be.
The public sector Italians have gone for fleet names like Swing, Jazz, Rock and Pop (from different manufacturers).
You'd hope DB would ask for some guarantees on quality of service to avoid possible brand damage! Because an IET of whatever flavour is an embarrassment against any form of DB ICE.
Despite what enthusiasts always want, technical sounding names are not going to be public facing or if they are, they won’t catch on
I would say rail enthusiasts are worse for not using technical names, I find that the general public will use the official name if it is widely known, or refer to their manufacturer or the service they operate if they need to be more specific about a particular train yet rail enthusiasts will invent new nicknames for them even if they already have perfectly good official names.
Yes but my point is that "Azuma" has absolutely no integrity throughout the majority of the UK, as what has "east" got to do with Plymouth, Liverpool, Swansea or Glasgow? Just because it sounds good (although I would dispute that anyway), its no good unless the word has some kind of meaning. And east just doesn't work. If anything the UK is more west orientated, in that we sit in western Europe. East, smacks of Eastern Asia to me. Completely irrelevant.
Exactly. Pretty sure people that travel daily to and from Paddington to the West don't say they've 'been on an Azuma'. And why, when we're (hopefully) going for a united identity for our 'Great British' railway, would we stick with a Japanese word? It's a stupid name for a stupid train and to me, has always stood for cheap and nasty, poorly made rubbish.
