East Coast 225's

[Failed Unit]

I've heard this about the NSE livery on 365s and 465s before, but don't understand it. If the TOC wanted to repaint a train, why should the warranty on the existing paint matter?

I guess it doesn't, it just makes the expense even more unneeded. If the current paint gets damaged it can be repaired for free. I you repaint the train you need to pay for this out of your profit margin.

 

[FlyingScot]

I went on the east coast website and the colour of the website was purple. So if they repaint the 225s people who are living near the ECML might want to move.......

 

[Fudgefrog]

I went on the east coast website and the colour of the website was purple. So if they repaint the 225s people who are living near the ECML might want to move.......

I wouldn't worry - EC definately won't be creating their own livery given how short a time they're running things.

Wait a year or so and red, yellow and blue stripes, Red, white and grey or various shades of purple and squiggly lines will be all over it

Unless, of course, it's to be white with a red line, of course

 

[royaloak]

I've heard this about the NSE livery on 365s and 465s before, but don't understand it. If the TOC wanted to repaint a train, why should the warranty on the existing paint matter?

Because the TOC doesnt own the train, would you hire a car for a weekend and repaint it because you didn't like the colour.
The warranty on the paint is to do with corrosion protection and to repaint you have to rub down the old paint to get a good key for the new paint, this obviously damages the paint so invalidates the warranty, now the original paint is 2 pack and is very hard wearing so the warranty can be up to 10 years.

 

[Dolive22]

Might they not want to call it orange because unauthorised orange violates some sort of regulation? I know orange is used for mandatory marker panels on some trains, and of course features quite prominently on every trackside worker. Might it be thought confusing?

 

[A60K]

It is not called orange because it is not orange, it is red, full stop. Any orange appearance in photographs is due to dodgy white balance in the digital image or the ambient lighting.

Trust me, I see it every day, and have done for the last 13 years. It's always been red.

Now, if you were talking about the colour officially known as 'Strathclyde Red', then that's a whole new can of worms!