Themed graffiti

[GatwickDepress]

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.

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.

 

[Penmorfa]

I avoid buses, trams and the few trains which carry adverts which cover the windows. I see this as a form of official graffitti.

 

[renegademaster]

I think 10 foot and his association with tox and Fume who were all big 90s graffers is interesting. I cannot believe how slow the BTP are in catching him/her

I’m sure once caught he will be a well known figure with a previous tag

10 foot has been caught he just got off with a relative slap on the wrist

Britain's biggest graffiti vandal '10 Foot' UNMASKED

EXCLUSIVE: Britain's most prolific graffiti artist, known as 10 Foot, is today revealed as the middle-class son of a respected NHS doctor who enjoyed an idyllic childhood in the countryside.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Britain's most prolific graffiti artist, known as 10 Foot, is today revealed as the middle-class son of a respected NHS doctor who enjoyed an idyllic childhood in the countryside.

Sam Moore is unmasked by MailOnline as the writer behind the hundreds of 10 Foot tags spray painted on bridges, walls and buildings in London - and causing an estimated £1million worth of damage across the UK.

 

[furnessvale]

10 foot has been caught he just got off with a relative slap on the wrist

Britain's biggest graffiti vandal '10 Foot' UNMASKED

EXCLUSIVE: Britain's most prolific graffiti artist, known as 10 Foot, is today revealed as the middle-class son of a respected NHS doctor who enjoyed an idyllic childhood in the countryside.

www.dailymail.co.uk

When I ran an anti graffiti squad in the north west in the 1990s we managed to get the worst offenders 15 months in jail. It killed graffiti in the area stone dead. Sadly, you don't even get that for rape these days.

 

[Chriso]

Crazy. I don’t understand why they just don’t keep arresting him

 

[furnessvale]

Crazy. I don’t understand why they just don’t keep arresting him

My squad was so successful it killed G in the north west stone dead so the powers that be disbanded the squad. The rest, as they say, is history.

Catching "artists" is a complicated business. It is not a matter of sitting in a block of sidings waiting for one to turn up. Doing that is a waste of police resources but if you abandon the specialised knowledge, that is all you have left.

Thank God I am retired.

 

[aliceh]

I can't let a thread about themed graffiti go by without mentioning this one:

"See it, Spray It, Sorted" graffitied onto an S-Stock train. Source: https://x.com/tontytrains/status/1751929135809589315

 

[Bikeman78]

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.

Yes there is some in the Netherlands but nothing like Belgium. To be fair, I have never seen it as bad as the Koploper link you posted. I am surprised that they let it out in that condition.

 

[Railcar]

It's been mentioned before, but several years ago at Loughborough Junction (in The Land Of The Third Rail), two graffiti vandals weren't aware of overnight train movements and lost their lives.