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Best Livery to suit a Class 50

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What in your opinion is the best livery to suit a class 50.The options are BR Blue, BR Large Logo, Brunswick Green (50007), BR Green (50044),Laira Blue (50008/019), Dutch (50015),Crimson (50017) NSE Old, NSE New,Load Haul (50135),Railfreight Grey (50149) ,Don't like any. Feel free to add any liveries i have missed. For me it is BR Large Logo because thats how i remember them best.
 
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Large logo was the best on them - but, as they were the archetypal "box on wheels", I am quite happy to see them in "Rust and weeds"<D
 
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I got to say large logo and Network SouthEast livery they are the best I have seen on the "Hoovers" not to keen on the BR green livery though.
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BR Rail Blue as built with origonal D4xx number and double arrow at each end below the cab side windows and English electric "lease " plate on the body. This livery seemed to show the true bulk and curve of the body, strangely when repainted rail blue with just one transfer centrally they lost something. In their origonal form the 50's had to be seen (and heard), pictures dont do them justice. The sight of the Royal Scot storming Beatock bank double headed by 2x 50's was something to behold. When transfered to the Western Region they were put out to grass.
 
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Oh dear. Too many wannabe liveries have made your list.

While I don't mind someone cooking up a Photoshop special to see how something might have looked in a particular livery, I do abhor the actual painting of a loco into a livery that it never wore on mainline duty. For that reason alone, the crimson, Laira blue, Dutch and Loadhaul liveried locos are counted out. The Loadhaul one especially makes me mad every time I see a picture of it.

I happen to think that the final version of the NSE livery was the best livery these locos carried. I agree that Large Logo is probably the classic look, but it was never particularly special when you consider how many other classes had the same treatment. Plus I have to say that the grey roof is a classic Stratford touch that predates the introduction of Large Logo blue and, as a proud East Anglian and a person brought up on the former Great Eastern, it just looks so wrong on a loco so synonymous with the Western Region.

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Big British Rail Logo, that does look good everywhere,
 
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50015 did wear dutch in service in the 1990s - it might have been painted as a special, but it was dutch for a time
 
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Large Logo - no contest. I especially liked the variation with the darker roof.
I always thought NSE livery (both versions) looked dreadful on the 50s.
 
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I would say the NSE livery was the best livery for the 50s, :D
 
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I like the green 007 had applied, and large logo is obviously well suited to the loco, I think it wears the railfreight (NOTE: 50017 wore the same livery as 50149 in preservation numbered as 50117) and departmental liveries well (although it'd be hard not to).

If memory serves 50015 was a departmental loco for a period, but when it gained the dutch livery it became a 'celebrity' and spent it's days on railtours.

I thought Loadhaul would be okay on a 50 (I like it on the 60s), but I don't, something lost in translation maybe. 50017's Crimson was purely to suit the coaches it never ran with, had it been painted specifically as Loco (rather than a generator), I think (hope) they would have done it differently. The two tone green of D444 is plain wrong.
 
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