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Fleet names that weren't widely adopted

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onlinespotting said:
This is what I remember. Maybe it was the 156’s that showed ‘Super sprinter’
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A quick look for images of 156s has failed to show any saying Super Sprinter. [Edit: I meant 155]

Wikipedia says: "The fleet was part of the "Super Sprinter" build, the other part of which was the Class 156 fleet - though only the latter carried the "Super Sprinter" branding. "
 
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northwichcat said:
Some films show Sprinter trains in this livery: https://paulbigland.files.wordpress...ff.-manchester-piccadilly.-19.06.1991crop.jpg and you can see the word Sprinter.
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onlinespotting said:
This is what I remember. Maybe it was the 156’s that showed ‘Super sprinter’
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Units 156443 onwards carried 'Super Sprinter' branding, and the brand was retrospectively applied, in marketing though not physically on the units themselves, to all the 23 metre, end doored units of class 155 and 156.

It passed out of active use in publicity material following the sector rebrand to Regional Railways in 1991, though remained on unrepainted units for up to another decade afterwards.
 
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43096 said:
4-JOP originally for the 458s - for Juniper Outer-suburban Porterbrook (if I remember correctly), but due to their inital reliability alternatively known as Jump Out and Push.
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Didn't even notice that typo, correction noted. But yeah, that sounds about right, given the laundry list of issues they and their 334 & 460 relatives had when new. Makes the turnaround in both the 334 and 458 fleets all the more remarkable; barely hear a peep out of either these days in terms of reliability.
 
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In response to earlier mention of Electric Scots branding... It's a bit blurry, but the first southbound Electric Scot service is about to depart Glasgow Central behind the 303. May 1974.


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