Recent content by ash39

So we have the first occurance of two trains side by side and we've got: - Two differing shades of blue, can't be that hard to get a vinyl manufacturer to match a paint colour or vice versa - Two different side number positions with no obvious reason why the 357 couldn't have it on the blue...

If the livery is not repeatable on all types of rolling stock without poor compromises, it should have been designed differently. Forget what anyone thinks about whether GBR should be a brand, or whether we should paint/vinyl rolling stock outside of it's usual warranty cycle, or whether the...

I needed to have it as a condition of my mortgage but it's impossible to say whether it's good value or not until I need it, which I hopefully never will! If I had no mortgage or children I don't think I'd bother, but the free weekly Caffe Nero is a nice perk at least :lol:

Managed a day in the West Mids this month so another report. Plenty of winners too!

Interesting, although it could be that the third black one is also a full sticker with a black background as opposed to white stick on letters straight onto the glass? This did cross my mind but based on the vast number of units with mismatched panels around the 1999-2000 period, it would...

From memory I always thoguht they looked 'thicker' like a section of metal, and I'd have expected a slight colour mismatch with the paint of the rest of the front end, but you may be right?

One of those questions I've always wanted to know the answer to and never got round to investigating. Very geeky question so please indulge me... I might be wrong on the dates and companies, but around 1996-1997 I believe Central Trains and TransPennine Express were the first to 'mess' with the...

A couple of trips this month which just about justified a report, hoping to get out a bit more over summer...

I've got around 3,000 journeys recoreded on a spreadsheet and only once have I needed to use the fourth column. Tue 29/05/2018 153372 153368 153325 150244 BRI Bristol Temple Meads BPW Bristol Parkway If I ever need a fifth it will really ruin my formatting so hopefully I don't have...

Makes sense. Thanks. We did have a university-liveried streetdeck pass the other day so deckers do turn up on the 6 on occasion.

Noticing more Versas on the 6 in York recently. At least one passes by every day and today there's two running. Is this a planned change or a shortage of Kites?

The majority of the post-privatisation brands nailed the style aspect, it was a colourful time! We've got far too many white based trains on the network these days. Northern Spirit (and the TPE sub-brand) Virgin Trains GNER Midland Mainline Anglia Central Trains The only brands that have...

Without doing the maths, there are probably as many odd-numbered sets running around the network than there are even-numbered sets. I didn't realise when I wrote my last post but I could have made it more concice by saying 'Every LNER, Avanti & TPE set' ... I wonder if LNER will bother with...

Plenty of them, just off the top of my head... LNER - 5 & 9 car 800/801 TPE - 3 car 185 and 5 car 802 XC - 5 car 221 Avanti - 5 & 7 car 80xs, 9 & 11 car 390s It looks really awful on the 5-car 80x mock up. My solution would be to make the centre car of a unit with an odd number of vehicles...

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