Count me as someone else who thinks that the loss of the INTERCITY brand was a pity.
And me, although I'd prefer to have seen it applied somewhat wider, to all Class 1 trains as opposed to just those that operate between sectors. Not applying it to RR Express or various NSE services caused a quality divide to develop between the two, as anyone who travelled on a 158 or 166 at the time found out, but I think that had more to do with management differences than anything.
If I was running a TOC, I'd base (but not exactly) my livery on that of the pre-grouping or pre-nationalisation colours of the earlier company, but not quite exactly. Plenty of people have done mock-up examples in Photoshop (my favourite by Matthew Cousins can be found here).
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