Maybe Intercity could be GBR, with regional services being 'Transport for England' or something along those lines
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Great British Railways livery: Alternative suggestions/variations
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TastyMaltesers
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I thought I'd have a go...
And a very NSE-inspired one;
And a very NSE-inspired one;
Very good. Clear Union Flag inspiration but a bit more subtle. Even though I'm not a fan of reviving old sectorised liveries I do like the NSE-inspired one because it didn't immediately jump out as such at first.
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All of those are better than what DfT have come up with!
At first sight that last one reminded me of the Austrian 5047 DMUs in their first ÖBB livery.
I really like those, my only suggestion is to loose the white line that runs along the length of the unit, it doesn't really add anything.
On the contrary I think it helps break up some of the monotony of the blue and is a decent alternative to black window bands, especially if intermediate coaches aren't using red and white at each end.
Looking at them again, i get where you're coming from, I'd be interested to see them without the white stripe though but with the addition of a black window band.
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I wonder how it'd look with a very dark navy blue and a dark red, and some sort of grey standing in for the white.
After all its going to get covered in dust and grime in short order anyway!
After all its going to get covered in dust and grime in short order anyway!
Many2Audi
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This looks great! It looks really similar to Virgins livery at the front. It may well spark back fond memories of how the WCML once was.
Looks decent on the Pendolino, not sure how it would look on something more boxy, such as a Voyager.
SWT put that style on 159s & 444s, and EMT put it on 158s & 222s, so there's a reference for how that kind of thing would look.
I like it, but I wonder if it's not a bit dated these days.
Ah yeah true, I'd forgotten about that!
But I agree, possibly a bit dated, though I doubt it would take much to freshen it up, as SWT did with the livery on the 159s towards the end of their franchise.
MargaretNoodle
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This is really good, I've always been a fan of the EMT/SWT livery
Thank you for the positive feedback. I had many variations on this one including red doors or just all blue streams rather than the red one over the cab end. I like to describe as both Stagecoach and British Airways inspired. I think it'd be fairly easy to adapt onto other units but I'd have to work on that to find out.
Transilien
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Dated maybe, but it looks better than a lot of modern designs.
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The top 3 are so much better. Simple and still look modern.
In truth though having everything the same livery is 1 harder for passengers to differentiate and 2 a bit boring and I'd argue not that British really.
Bletchleyite
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Now I've seen it on a few odd-number-of-coaches units, I think I'm leaning towards the idea that it is actually OK as a livery but should just have the pointy device on the cab ends with other vehicles being overall dark blue. The lighter blue shouldn't be used for a body as it's too Lumo esque (it's worth noting there are two versions - light and dark - you can see both on the Chiltern Mk5 implementation).
I genuinely think it looks quite good on a 3 car unit with the middle coach plain dark blue. It's the repeat of the same device that jars.
Maybe add a charcoal window band to break it up a bit. And stop using Rail Alphabet as a logotype - yes, SBB do that sort of thing, but it doesn't work on a "brash" livery which needs a "brash" logo to go with it, or just the double arrow!
I genuinely think it looks quite good on a 3 car unit with the middle coach plain dark blue. It's the repeat of the same device that jars.
Maybe add a charcoal window band to break it up a bit. And stop using Rail Alphabet as a logotype - yes, SBB do that sort of thing, but it doesn't work on a "brash" livery which needs a "brash" logo to go with it, or just the double arrow!
