I think it looks really good. Reminiscent of a Class 50 in the same livery.A Class 66 in BR Large Logo livery still looks fantastically odd to me!
Deltic 16 in purple. Bizarre.For me, something a bit similar to the OP - the Porterbrook purple/white/grey liveries on any locomotives. Tornado with the modern National Express logo on the tender was a bit incongruous as well, but it was just a relatively small part of the livery, so not the strangest livery ever.
Was that genuine or 'Photoshop'? (Genuine question, I have never seen it).Tornado with the modern National Express logo on the tender
Real (linked photo from the Keith Long Flickr stream) by the looks of this.Was that genuine or 'Photoshop'? (Genuine question, I have never seen it).
Was that genuine or 'Photoshop'? (Genuine question, I have never seen it).
Yes, it was real - National Express sponsored it for a while.Real (linked photo from the Keith Long Flickr stream) by the looks of this.
York.
60163 still in undercoat and with National Express on the tender departs from the NRM on a test run to Milford and back 18th November 2008. Photo details Colour Slide scan Fuji 200ASA Film Camera Canon EOS300 Lens Canon 28-90mmwww.flickr.com
That's a significant improvement over the final effort I'd say!connex tried out a blue upper band at one point.....
probably to see if they could save money but just repainting the bottom of nse livery
Or a Crompton....with non-original bogies too!Intercity 302? View attachment 104568
That was standard on their 365 fleet and quite smart if I may say so. I don't remember it on any 'slammers'; that does indeed look a little strange.connex tried out a blue upper band at one point.....
probably to see if they could save money but just repainting the bottom of nse livery
I can think of a few examples; a few of which are “what might have been” cases!
* BR Green, Loadhaul, Intercity and GBRf liveries on a few Class 50s
* D5054 in Loadhaul livery
* BR Green, large logo and Trainload sector liveries on some of the GBRf 66s
* “Police” liveries on 37093 and 47829
* “Celebrations” livery on 47627
* Large logo on 40145 (renumbered to 40445)
* The unique dark blue livery on 31289 (Northampton and Lamport Railway)
* Porterbrook liveries on 47807, 47817, D9016 and 87002
* LNWR “blackberry black” on 87019
* “Caledonian” blue on 86245 (effectively Virgin Trains but with blue instead of red).
* The “Hornby” liveried HST power car.
Many others out there no doubt which I’ve forgotten, and also undoubtedly many opinions on each of these liveries!
A Class 66 in BR Large Logo livery still looks fantastically odd to me!
Perhaps I'm completely wrong here, but it looks to me like the Class 66's solebar is much higher than on any British Rail-era diesel that I can think of, so the older/British Rail/"heritage" liveries on them look a little bit odd in their proportions to me. They do look good, though.I think it looks really good. Reminiscent of a Class 50 in the same livery.
THC
87002 in the version of the Porterbrook livery with all purple with only the logo in grey/silver is the only Porterbrook livery that looks ok to me, though it looks kinda more European than British to me with the purple colour for some reason, and the white window frames look a bit odd to me - the version with the big silver band and stretched "Porterbrook" writing on it was the worst Porterbrook livery, IMO. There was also 57601 in its unique version of the Porterbrook livery, which kinda looks ok or strange to me, depending on what mood I'm in.* Porterbrook liveries on 47807, 47817, D9016 and 87002