What Rolling Stock Liveries do you think look the best? Can be present or past.
I like the Class 507 Merseyrail livery.
Southern - the shades of green seem to work well, and it doesn’t seem to have dated. Must be the longest surviving privatisation livery?
GWR - seems to suit most of the fleets though for some reason looks just a touch drab on the IETs
TransPennine Express - the current livery is excellent in my opinion, and cultivates a good solid brand image (shame the performance doesn’t match).
Midland Mainline - I confess to having a soft spot for the original teal and tangerine livery.
Chiltern - simple and understated yet effective.
GNER - worked well though the red doors spoiled the simple lines
WAGN - the livery seen on their refurbished 317/2s was another which was simple but effective. It’s a shame the 313s and 365s never received this.
ScotRail - for some reason I quite liked the early white and purple livery.
And for a wild card - the version of Connex livery applied to the 365s and a small number of 465s where the NSE livery was modified with a yellow skirt but the blue upper part was retained. This really suited the Networkers.
I tend to dislike most of the white-based liveries we’ve seen in recent years, to me they look unfinished, and of course show dirt badly. Not a great fan of any liveries which are obviously affiliated to bus companies either. It’s rather unfortunate that I could probably reel off a much longer list of liveries which I find either ineffective or utterly ghastly.
For me, the XC livery is my personal favourite, I know we all have opinions on the franchise and how it's run, but I find the livery quite nice.
Maybe controversial, but I have never understood the love for the GNER livery, it's dark and drab and if still around, would look incredibly dated.
I think GNER worked because it went hand-in-glove with a specific brand image that was meant to exude quality. I agree it was rather 1990s and probably wouldn’t be regarded as trendy enough now, though surely most people would prefer it over VTEC’s abomination?