cjmillsnun
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You mean like these from GatEx's twitter?
https://twitter.com/GatwickExpress/status/693093178518433792
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You mean like these from GatEx's twitter?
https://twitter.com/GatwickExpress/status/693093178518433792
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Deepgreen
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You mean like these from GatEx's twitter?
https://twitter.com/GatwickExpress/status/693093178518433792
Exactly - thanks for the posting. Obviously the large logos were on the driving cars not the middle ones.
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Thought they had to drop gatwick from the branding as some don't stop at the airport or is that not the case?
I quite like the current set up in that gatwick express benefits both brighton and london
Presumably these won't go to eastbourne in the future
I quite like the current set up in that gatwick express benefits both brighton and london
Presumably these won't go to eastbourne in the future
Peter Sarf
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That livery looks quite nice, not too busy. Waiting to see what it is like on the inside 
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Can't say I'm impressed by that logo.. The huge one looks ridiculous. But hey, let's all remember GTR have no money, except for when they want to waste it redesigning stuff that doesn't need doing..!!
What, exactly, was wrong with the existing logo?
What, exactly, was wrong with the existing logo?
Peter Sarf
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Thinking about it the large "GX" will not be noticed by most passengers standing near the train on a platform. It is just a few marks above and below the windows. Puzzled how part of the "G" does actually make it onto the window glass !.
asylumxl
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Probably made by the same talentless hacks who made their ****ty Wordart style logos for TL and GN.
Bletchleyite
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Well I quite like it.
shyanthony
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What do you want, a pig sh**ing a rainbow?!!
The livery is a fresh and minimalistic branding that doesn't hurt the eyes, unlike any of the eyesore of TSGN liveries around at present.
The livery is a fresh and minimalistic branding that doesn't hurt the eyes, unlike any of the eyesore of TSGN liveries around at present.
That's exactly it.
Considering the almost total absence of actual livery on the Thameslink/Great Northern trains, I can't really think of them as eyesores !
That livery looks quite nice, not too busy. Waiting to see what it is like on the inside
There are already pictures about. 387/1s but with red seats and light blue grabrails and luggage rack trim. Carpet same as 387s and 377s.
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HarleyDavidson
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Sometimes less is more.
Personally I'm not a fan of it, but then again, I'll probably never use it, as I don't fly anywhere & if I need to go to Gatwick I'll drive.
Personally I'm not a fan of it, but then again, I'll probably never use it, as I don't fly anywhere & if I need to go to Gatwick I'll drive.
Does anybody know what the pair were that worked down on the Bletchley to Brighton runs yesterday (29th Jan)? They passed over Selhurst Road bridge just as I was driving home. The North end unit had the new branding, didn't get top see the rear unit in nay detail.
urpert
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It's effectively undercoat with blue doors. Rather like the WAGN 313s that were running around for years in dirty white.
Class377/5
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Thanks sir. . .
LBSCR Times
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I like it too, just enough to break up the plain red livery.
And they will stand out as the premier brand on the GTR route....
Bletchleyite
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I've just realised why I quite like it - it's basically DB Regio Verkehrsrot
Funnily enough, I prefer the earlier Turquoise / Beige livery.....
I think they look fine but the font for GX? Don't like that at all.
Is that a logo? If so, what does it mean to most people? Surely a picture of a plane would have been better, alongside Gatwick Express written in full? If you were going for easy recognition?
Is that a logo? If so, what does it mean to most people? Surely a picture of a plane would have been better, alongside Gatwick Express written in full? If you were going for easy recognition?
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Bletchleyite
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Must admit I did quite like the way those liveries were a common family but with a colour for regional, one for IR and one for IC. A bit like the PTE Regional Railways variants.
Shame the interior doesn't stand out as a premier brand
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Bletchleyite
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I personally like that interior, it is to me vastly preferable to any other Electrostar due to the good legroom in the airline seats. But the absence of proper quality (2+1) First Class is odd.
Deepgreen
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Southern/GE/TL/GTR have utterly 'lost the plot' on first class. The provision is poor, wildly inconsistent (both within the franchise and compared with others), and seemingly designed to alienate first class users to the point that its withdrawal can be 'justified' by stealth.
agree that this is what they are trying to do.
Have said before that the DfT have the ability to specify that first class has to be a certain "standard" but they dont. Using 377/1s - 4s on metro work doesnt help.
..and also that GTR unpper management use 1st class im surprised THEY themselves dont want a better standard.
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