A corporate livery was created for major express services in Scotland, which effectively consisted of the InterCity livery with the red stripe replaced by a light blue one. The double arrow is still overused, though. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport . Agree, having at least 'intercity', 'regional' and 'metro' would be good. The Blue Pullman sets retained their livery of Nanking Blue (albeit with full yellow ends) until 1969 when they were repainted in the reversed grey and blue livery. And it that light it is intriguing that Ministers have. The 25 kV electric locomotives were painted from new in a striking shade of bright blue which was known as "Electric Blue". There'll no doubt be someone on here who knows, one way or the other. I wonder if you could make a hybrid of the two? British Railways coaches in the crimson and cream livery used from 1949 Discussions on the livery for British Railways coaching stock in 1948 eventually settled on a network-wide two-tone livery of crimson and cream for corridor coaches, with all-over crimson being used for local, non-corridor stock. Eastfield TMD staff near Glasgow also embellished a few examples of the class 37/0's allocated to the depot with a lower bodyside white stripe in the mid-80s but were told to stop doing it and repaint the ones they'd already done back to the standard blue livery by the BR hierarchy. don't see an issue anywhere, as long as the concessions stay branded with whatever. From 1956 maroon (similar to crimson lake) was adopted as the standard colour for coaching stock, with corridor coaches lined and non-corridor plain initially: later on all stock was lined. . Please can you explain the advantage of such a nationwide livery? The 1948 trials brought LMS Class 5s, and GWR Kings and Castles in lined light green and lined blue, with incorrect suggestions that two different blues were used. The smokebox, running plate, and running gear remained black, and the bufferbeam remained red. The new British Rail "double arrow" symbol on locomotives (or leading vehicle as was the case on multiple unit stock) and the vehicle number and other ancillary markings written in the Rail Alphabet typeface were other integral parts of the livery. I quite like that version; I think I might like it even more if the black and the red were blue instead though. You also get a more legible and cohesive transport system. [4] One locomotive, Class 47 No.D1733, was painted to match the coaching stock. One overarching brand, with sub brands sitting below it, for long distance services and regional brands all under the GBR moniker, much like we do today with Southern, South Eastern, South Western, Northern, etc. The anniversary of the Battle of Hastings which took place in 1066 was also used in publicity for the line. I would rather that operations were branded similar to how they are now, but with a few changes compared with the existing TOC areas as follows: Chiltern Railways renamed as Chiltern & Oxbridge, with brand used on all planned EWR services in addition to those from London Marylebone. The old BR liveries look dated now and have done for a while. This competition aimed to identify a place with a rich railway heritage, strong links to the national network and significant public support, while creating a great opportunity to promote the location as the proud home for the start of a new era in Britains railways. Recognising this, the Plan for Rail recommended the development of a 30-year strategy to determine how best the railways can support Britain in the future. [8][9], A fortnight before the WilliamsShapps Plan for Rail was unveiled, the Department for Transport gave notice of a 6.5million contract for Deloitte up to February 2023 as its "strategic change delivery partner: rail reform programme". Due to the small number of units repainted it was common to see trains with two or more units in different liveries. Or do you think TfL should change their look away from using the current font simply because it's been that way since the 1930s or whenever? The first Class 31 entered service in November . [11][12], The location for GBR's headquarters is currently being determined. The iconic London and North Eastern Railway brand - better known as LNER - looks set to be withdrawn again. There are conflicting view on Britain versus Great Britain. Apple Green. Instead, I just added an icon next to the full text and removed it from the main station name. Last week Doug Beattie, the newly-installed leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, hit out at Boris Johnson. "Image of No.47163 with Silver Jubilee Union Jack", History of Blood and Custard (Crimson Lake & Cream) Livery, Information on Freight Locomotive Liveries & logos, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_Rail_corporate_liveries&oldid=1136093401, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. The British Isles in my old school geography books included the island of Ireland but I wouldn't have said that in my recent visit to the country! Most of this nostalgia is from people who aren't old enough to remember just how rubbish latter day BR often was. From 1966 until withdrawal, Pullman Coaches were also painted in the reversal of the normal coach livery, with the blue and grey areas transposed. The distinctive angular shape of the HST power cars did not lend itself to applying yellow on the leading face, so the yellow was wrapped around and extended along the side of each power car, although the coaches retained the usual Rail Blue coaching stock livery. Beattie acknowledges how Ulsters separate unionist parties weaken the Union. I'd go along with that from a "looks right" perspective, but it would be almost impossible to see from (for instance) inside a train in darkness. At the moment, the TOC mostly differentiates this. Compared to the superb branding packages of TfW and ScotRail, it does not say "come use the railway . Why could GBR franchises not do the same? The Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT) seeks to deliver the most ambitious changes to our railways in a generation, working with the government and across the rail sector. Once we lose TOC branding I certainly think service categories need to return, if only on the Dutch basis of them only describing service patterns rather than anything else. Swiss rail. The purpose of this call for evidence was to develop an understanding of how much of the current and future market demand for freight could be met by rail, and the role rail can play in the nations supply chains. Then theres the question of livery. JavaScript is disabled. In 1986 the British Railways Board divided its operations into a number of sectors (sectorisation).The sector responsible for long-distance express trains assumed the brand-name . They are an intercity operator. But do we really want to go back to that? Historic fact is that Roman Britain was England & Wales and the name Great Britain was adopted once Scotland joined, even though today we may refer of GB as just Britain. And if Northern are still running trains to Glasgow, a new paint job would be a great moment for the Government to stump up for good rolling stock. Eventually, it was decided to standardise on a colour which became known as Rail Blue. for some form of co-branding. I reckon a simple logo like the one youve depicted will be what we see. Our railways play a fundamental role in supporting the economic, environmental and social achievements of the country. Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; I wanted to go for something modern yet flexible. Not the terms I would have used but I see where you might get that impression. Due to the consequent muddle of liveries, many trains began to get an untidy if not tatty appearance which added to the run-down image of the railway. Today I would like to make a rather general suggestion rather than something specific. Because it's not going to be the same as BR. Railfreight livery, a colour scheme specifically for freight locomotives, was unveiled when Class 58 58001 drove through a plastic screen at Doncaster Works on 9 December 1982. Much closer to what I was meaning (thanks. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 3,609. thomalex said: One of the big ones is an end to endless rebranding of trains when the operator changes with various bit of old livery hanging about for a long time, never mind the cost and waste involved. The Union Jack will represent. Which does what it says on the tin. Cross Country merged with EMT to form a brand called Midland Connect. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Bare minimum. The old Northern signs worked well, but only Metro/WYCA really got behind the co-branding opportunities, that I saw. If it was, that format would not be used by: If you need any proof, they've also just done the same with 'Great British Nuclear'. GBR will absorb Network Rail, although overall strategic direction on infrastructure investment and fares strategy will remain with government. Why does it need to look the part - what does nationalisation look like? I can sort of understand lumping Moorgate services in with London Overground, but LNER to Kings Lynn has been suggested many times without any compelling reason as to why, beyond "something something intercity standard", This idea often seems to pop its head up. [16] As well as rolling stock and multiple units, a number of Class 47 and Class 50 locomotives dedicated to Network SouthEast passenger services were painted in this livery. GBR will develop masterplans for station renewal. The white paper does not specify whether the branding of devolved railways such as London Overground and Merseyrail will be affected.[7]. This colour was applied to all diesel and electric locomotives, with the exception of the ends, which were painted yellow to improve visibility, and the underframes and buffer beams which were painted black; the paints being to BSS 2660-0.003 and BSS 2660-9.103 respectively. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. It would appear that were going to be waiting a while even for the new logo, and that given the recent nature of the franchise liveries, that new liveries are a very long way off. Great British Railways: The Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail (print version) Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-2465-7 , CCS0321182446 05/21 , CP 423 PDF , 55.8 MB , 112 pages Order a copy I am confident I could design a better package in a few hours, and I am not a design professional. RM CN0PKR - Britania 70000 in British Railways Livery at West Somerset Railway, Minehead, UK RM C1N4A7 - Totnes Littlehempston Station with Goods Vehicle in authentic 'British Railways' Livery, Totnes, Devon, England, United Kingdom RM ER5JCR - 46138 Royal Scot Class Steam Locomotive - British Railways L The Transport Secretary announced on 19 October 2022 that the Transport Bill which would have set up GBR would not go ahead in the current parliamentary session.[2]. With the reorganisation of British Railways in the mid-1960s, a complete break with the past was signalled by the introduction of a blue and grey livery which dominated all passenger rolling stock until the mid-1980s, when a new Intercity livery (dark grey and beige with a red and white waistband) was introduced along with a number of regional colour schemes. The United Kingdom is defined clearly on the passport .. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It's good work (and the previous set). It's already been seen with the government controlled LNER and GWR franchises for example. It really does look dire. Why? When British Rail operations were divided into sectors in the mid-1980s, prior to privatisation, a new version of the Railfreight livery emerged giving the sectors individual identities. This has been confirmed by records held at the National Railway Museum. Wrap yourself up in the flag and sing rule Brittania. And why call it G-BR if it's nothing like BR? The British Railway official livery for meat & fish vans (and other stock which normally travelled in passenger trains) was originally crimson with yellow lettering. Heh. Then why was the old version called British Railways, not Great British Railways, and why the change now for the new version if British Railways worked . Antrim Princess Sealink ferry underway in Larne with Sealink letters. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies, and was privatised in stages between 1994 and 1997. Find out more Contact us Freedom of Information Jobs at GBRTT Media Sign up for GBRTT News Privacy and GDPR Terms and conditions 1948 -. JavaScript is disabled. Other examples are available Once they'd ditched single colour liveries, they didn't really do anything that wasn't ", One can only hope for a Sectorised return to NSE. The concession contract system will be the long-term replacement for the previous system of passenger rail franchising run by the Department for Transport, which became unsustainable early in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this work, the team engaged with industry through a formal call for evidence. It's the name of the island ffs. Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; It really wouldn't. The special saloons and a few other special coaches were also repainted in chocolate and cream but regular former GWR coaches carried maroon. We badly need that on the visual mess that is the railway. Particularly if they are just vinyls on white painted trains. 1 Pre-corporate liveries 2 Early liveries 2.1 Coaching stock from 1948 2.2 The second phase 2.3 XP64 3 Rail Blue 3.1 Locomotives 3.2 Coaches and multiple units 3.3 Local variations 4 Moving away from Rail Blue 5 Sectorisation 5.1 InterCity 5.2 Network SouthEast 5.3 Regional Railways 5.4 Rail Express Systems 5.5 Railfreight Pre-corporate liveries And it that light it is intriguing that Ministers have decided to take a step back towards a national rail network with the launch of Great British Railways (GBR). [14] After this date, the passenger versions of Class 37 and 47, as well as Class 50, were routinely outshopped in this livery. The colours were chosen to be different from those of any of the "Big Four" pre-nationalisation railway companies while retaining a traditional aspect. [14] While this livery had much in common with the "Large Logo" version of Rail Blue livery, including the yellow cabs and larger logo and numbers on the bodyside, the main colour was grey rather than blue. Consisting of three shades of grey and thus known as "triple grey Railfreight", the livery included logos on the sides and cabs of locomotives indicating which sector they belonged to. Theres no vote in Northern Ireland for him or his Conservative party so he doesnt care, hes hands off.. Great British Railways marks a new era in the history of our railways. 19th September, 2019. The Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT) seeks to deliver the most ambitious changes to our railways in a generation, working with the government and across the rail sector. JavaScript is disabled. It looks like BR. However many people were not happy with the loss of the traditional "historic" regional colour schemes as used by the former private companies. Great Britain is not a country; its a landmass. From July 1956 the Southern Region began using a 'coaching stock' green that was somewhat darker than the malachite green colour of the old Southern Railway and this extended to former Southern vehicles as well as Mk1 stock. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Interesting mock up doublearrow on Twitter just posted: What problem is this supposed to be fixing? In which case, why do car manufacturers put effort (and substantial amounts of money!) Thats a bit like saying everything has been invented, no need for anything more. Given the furious backlash over the Protocol, as well as the ill-managed disappointment that was the two parties 2010 link-up (under the awful acronym UCUNF), one can understand why Northern Irish politicians shy away from the Tories. GBR will own all stations and most infrastructure in Great Britain. Home Forums Bland, cheap, unimaginative. We need more national institutions to give a British shape to life, and GBR should be one of them. A bit like this but without the fuzzy outline on the text and double arrow (caused by MS Paint's paint bucket tool): Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; I had a play around with this, and I agree, it looks. Class 52 No.D1015 restored to 1960's Western Region Maroon livery. The Class 309 units worked between Liverpool Street and Clacton, occasionally also to Ipswich and Norwich and later upon transfer saw the livery briefly appear around Manchester and Birmingham. OK, it's not a big change, but Germany tends to do rebrandings very infrequently. Roofs were Dark Grey and underframes originally brown, but later black. It is not necessary to have it on platform signs as if you don't know you are on the railway when you see them there probably isn't much hope for you. But theres no particular reason this should be. I'm not convinced "InterCity" services warrant different branding now, as they are no longer of premium quality in terms of service provision; in many case they're just regional or commuter services (thinks XC and GWR in particular). Introduced in 1965, and also known as "Monastral Blue", the colour was defined by British Rail standards BR28/6001 (Airless spray finish) and BR28/5321 (Brush finish). Likes Received: 1,930. This is "straight out of 1975": I'm inclined to disagree there. Avanti merged with LNWR to form a GNWR brand. Then why was the old version called British Railways, not Great British Railways, and why the change now for the new version if British Railways worked? This included many of the features which were later incorporated in the Mark 2, and trialled in an experimental train designated XP64. But thats the insidious appeal of nationalism: it willalwaysbe easier, in the short term, to spurn complicating national attachments in favour of tacking to local winds and making off with as much cash as you can lay your hands on. Thus Class 47 47170 County of Norfolk, allocated to Stratford and a regular performer on trains between Liverpool Street and Norwich, was painted in Large Logo livery. Aren't best impressions the ones that did the 2015 Virgin East Coast HST? The whole GBR thing is complicated as you have ScotRail and TfW already as separate brands that won't change, yet using "Rail England" or whatever is going to provoke outrage where services run by "English" operators go into Scotland and Wales (which rather ignores the same the other way round!). Nothing to bring it all together. One thing that might work, though, would be to drop the full text from the red band and just have a subtle double arrow on the right hand side in that. Construction of the first locomotive was completed in the final week of September 1957, and the handing-over took place on 31 October. Sadly cream on modern stock looks quite bad, or I suspect one incarnation of GWR might have tried it white might work ok instead. The text won't be centred vertically with the logo. Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread . I personally like this Lion logo posted by Tim Dunn on twitter a few years ago, Not at all. TL:DR - if your a british collector, and you paint your own, PUT THE STRIPPER DOWN. Blue Pullman in grey and blue livery arriving at Bristol Temple Meads in 1973. Here is some variants of my original 'swallow inspired' design. Something timeless. It may not display this or other websites correctly. The UK, Britain, Great Britain, The British Isles, England - what's the difference? Like the Thameslink 700 "can't be bothered" livery. JavaScript is disabled. 3 Apr 2022 . The bottom one is basically Serco era Northern signage, and does look good to me, though I would go for a subtle double arrow in the bottom right as I said earlier, and omit the GBR text. Great Western Railways/British Railway Western Region. Several Class 31 locomotives received white waist stripes, these being Read about the differences between Britain, the. You are using an out of date browser. Dedicated station management teams will be created within regional divisions of GBR to manage stations and land. All Class 42 "Warship" class diesels were delivered in green but some Class 52s were delivered in maroon to match the then-standard coaching stock livery. It appears that while the plan is to brand all trains under GBR with one branding, that plan involves a much longer time scale: . Press J to jump to the feed. In 1957 this changed to maroon with yellow markings and in 1963 bauxite with white lettering was adopted. Whatever its failings and they were multitude branding was one thing British Rail took seriously and was remarkably good at. The x-height of the lower-case lettering should be equal to the height of the horizontal arms in the symbol, so that the row of text appears to align with them. For this new venture a new livery - a paler shade of blue than Rail Blue, with three stripes of white, red and grey - was created with Class 47 No.47573 The London Standard painted in the new livery specifically for the launch ceremony. Because it's not going to be the same as BR. Not sure but I was also thinking of the winding up arrangements that would've taken place at privatisation i.e. Someone will design a great livery in the future and someone else will design a crap livery. It may not display this or other websites correctly. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. WMT (operationally separate from LNWR by this point) brand to be used additionally on XC services to Nottingham and Leicester (stopper only). Or the awful corporate blue BR? It may not display this or other websites correctly. This livery was known as Large Logo livery as each side of the locomotive was dominated by a full body height BR double arrow symbol, and had the loco number prominently displayed at twice the previous size. The livery was applied only to some Class 309 "Clacton" units on the former Eastern Region and to a few of Classes 411 (4Cep), 419 (MLV) and 421 (4Cig) on the former Southern Region. This grey panel finished just short of the end of the coach leaving a small amount of Rail Blue which then continued round onto the end of the coach. GBR will be modelled on the operations of Transport for London, which contracts services on systems such as London Overground. Most of the coverage has focused on this. GBR is not quite the same, so they no doubt want it to be seen as distinct; plus, it may not even be possible to call it BR, there might be legal implications (just a guess). Wholely agree. Suffice to say, an actual English nationalist would not be passing controversial legislation to enable Westminster to spend even more money on Northern Ireland, as this Government is. If only we were to see a coherent joined up livery scheme to run nationwide like the picture above , however I rather suspect this will not be the case. Quick reference Livery Guide for Nameplates and transfers available in 4mm/00 scale. "Great" means "large", not "very good". The name is still awful though and far too long. During 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, all passenger train operating companies (TOCs) entered into Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements with the UK and Scottish Governments. Boris Johnson has announced that Britain is to have a new public rail operator, Great British Railways (GBR), in the biggest shake-up of the country's trains since privatisation a quarter. Not even all yellow fronted anymore. Why are so many cars driven around dirty with the user making no attempt to keep them clean? Why do most people go for a car that is mostly all one single colour. It might have the operator identified in a small way too. I can sort of understand lumping Moorgate services in with London Overground, but LNER to Kings Lynn has been suggested many times without any compelling reason as to why, beyond "something something intercity standard. 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