What train is this picture from?

[SimplyLlama]

I was looking through the LNER website and spotted this:

But this picture hasn't got the same seats as the intercity 225s or the azumas, so I was wondering if anybody knew what train this is?

 

[TheEdge]

Pendolino perhaps.

 

[superalbs]

Looks like an SNCF AGC.

 

[AlterEgo]

Yes, it has full length concave windows which don’t appear on any British trains, so likely a SNCF AGC. That would be my first guess too.

 

[Lampshade]

Could it be from the advert a few years ago, which was done in a studio in Romania?

 

[CC 72100]

The window sill and window shape are definitely that of an SNCF AGC. I've never seen one with that red seating mind.

 

[SWTCommuter]

It's a stock photo from Getty Images photo library. The details give the location as France, which would tally with suggestions that it is an SNCF train.

Getty Images: children eating a tart raspberry on the train

DETAILS
Credit:Photo and Co
Creative #:543297089
Licence type:Royalty-free
Collection: The Image Bank
Location: France
Release info: Model released

 

[Nicks]

It's a stock photo from Getty Images photo library. The details give the location as France, which would tally with suggestions that it is an SNCF train.

Getty Images: children eating a tart raspberry on the train

DETAILS
Credit:Photo and Co
Creative #:543297089
Licence type:Royalty-free
Collection: The Image Bank
Location: France
Release info: Model released

At lease they photoshopped the seat covering to red!

 

[robbeech]

What do we think the reasoning is behind using a stock image with a train they don’t have, food they don’t have etc?

 

[Surreytraveller]

What do we think the reasoning is behind using a stock image with a train they don’t have, food they don’t have etc?

I think just a marketing department who've never been on one of their trains and are totally clueless

 

[SimplyLlama]

It's a stock photo from Getty Images photo library. The details give the location as France, which would tally with suggestions that it is an SNCF train.

Getty Images: children eating a tart raspberry on the train

DETAILS
Credit:Photo and Co
Creative #:543297089
Licence type:Royalty-free
Collection: The Image Bank
Location: France
Release info: Model released

Cheeky marketing department at LNER, they just photoshopped the seat covering and made it slightly blury to hope nobody would notice!

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Also thanks for the information everybody!

 

[superalbs]

They've also used edited pics of a Merseyrail 507/508.

 

[SimplyLlama]

They've also used edited pics of a Merseyrail 507/508.
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The funny thing about this one is that the seats if they are next to each other would be the same colour on their trains so LNER marketing hardly know their seat coverings! At least this one has gone off the website for now.

 

[Donny_m]

I remember when I was in Sofia, Bulgaria in ~2017 and on loads of their metro advertising was an illustrator of an Arriva Trains Wales pacer.

Of all the trains for a clueless art department to pick.

 

[DanNCL]

I haven’t been able to find it again, but I do remember an advert from LNER featuring a mock-up 80x interior, only they’d swapped the Fainsa seats out for the seats used on Mark 4s!

 

[syorksdeano]

I was looking through the LNER website and spotted this:
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But this picture hasn't got the same seats as the intercity 225s or the azumas, so I was wondering if anybody knew what train this is?

My first thought was Cross Country 170's

 

[SimplyLlama]

My first thought was Cross Country 170's

I believe the CrossCountry 170s have smaller seats

 

[mpthomson]

What do we think the reasoning is behind using a stock image with a train they don’t have, food they don’t have etc?

Because it's way, way cheaper than setting up the actual photoshoot. Most companies (in all sectors) use stock photos if there's something that can be used or easily altered.

My own very large employer has brochures (and a website) full of stock pictures of people who don't work for the company in settings that the company doesn't use. It remains very successful at getting the point cross to its customers. Probably 99% of the travelling public couldn't care less that it's not exactly the right train. It's a train and it has a red seat and that's enough for most people.