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Despite the GBR livery having been introduced, some TOCs, not yet being nationalised, are still painting trains into non-GBR liveries, such as CrossCountry, GWR for the Class 175s, and EMR. I seem to recall reading that Northern are refurbishing trains into their current livery, despite being...

I never knew that “Lewes” was pronounced like “Lew-ess” - I had presumed that it was pronounced like “Loos”.

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/great-british-railways-first-train-in-new-livery.302338 If they’ve obtained clearance for the Class 720/1s and /5s to be used on the London Tilbury & Southend Railway (LT&SR), I guess that means that in the future they will have to...

Should the introduction of the GBR livery mean that all GBR rolling stock return to having yellow ends, for consistency across GBR?

Since each train operating company will get one unit in the new GBR livery - which one do you think it will be? Will they go for the newest units, as they have done with the “GBR coming soon” stickers, and with the 2 units done so far, or whichever units happen to be due in for re-paint first...

Since these sections already have their track in place now, can’t the work on the discontinuous electrification start already? Which areas of the routes will be electrified? I guess they must have already planned/have in mind what train design they’ll specify based on what battery range is...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/chiltern-railways-selected-as-operator-for-the-first-stage-of-east-west-rail-oxford-to-milton-keynes.295137/ What are the platform lengths at Winslow? EWR have just announced that their plans have changed from 4-car platforms...

ScotRail, Northern, SouthEastern, GWR, Chiltern, and TransPennine Express all have tenders out already, so after that, Class 158s for EMR? Voyagers for CrossCountry? The Tube will need almost all of their Deep Tube stock replacing that hasn’t been done recently/isn't being done now, if they can...

Is there a map or a list of all of the rail services which TfL has previously proposed adding to the Overground network?

EMD Class 66s/77s in Europe often have air-conditioning units added above their cabs which fit in European continental loading gauge, but not in U.K. loading gauge, so any with them coming from the European continent to the U.K. have to have them removed. Could they be added to the front of the...

Where will the Mark 3 sets and Class 68s be deployed after their replacement by the Mark 5A sets at Chiltern? Perhaps replacing the Class 222s at EMR?

I only know for the lines which I have used, for example for London Liverpool Street to/from Norwich: Class 745/0 InterCity, Class 745/1 Stansted Express, and 2 x Class 755/4 + 1 x Class 755/3 11-car triple traction. Or London Liverpool Street to/from Stansted Airport, which I believe is Class...

Since there is often discussion on seat models and their comfort, and I haven't seen a comprehensive list of what seats are used on what rolling stock, just mentions of them in threads here and there, I thought it might be useful to start a thread where people could post the models of seats and...

ScotRail don’t have enough EMUs for their newly-electrified line - so perhaps some of the remaining Class 321s from Varamis could be converted to 3-car Class 320s, as has been done to Class 321s before?

Since TfW are lacking extra Class 197s to cover for/replace their Class 230s, and apparently there are extra Class 196s, does it make sense for Class 196s to replace the Class 230s, which could then go to GWR? When GWR order their Project Churchward DMUs, I guess they are likely to be CAF DMUs...