East Midlands Trains Class 153 - NEW LIVERY!!

[carlwestwood]

5Z36? Westbury - Derby - Nottingham today ran with Class 153's for the new East Midlands Trains Franchise
These were 153308, 153355, 153374, and 153302, with the middle two units sporting the new Stagecoach livery design.
Seen at Derby departing for Notts at 16:20

http://cw-railpic.fpic.co.uk/c1404946.html

Cheers

 

[devon_metro]

Yuk!

 

[5872]

Looks like an odd livery of SWT.

 

[Dennis]

looks good to me

 

[nath9425]

Oh My! What have they done to the poor things. That looks terrible. Reminds me of that Sont Advert with all the blown colours.

 

[thefab444]

Looks okay, but it is nice to see EMT getting on with the reliverying. We're still waiting for the first First Great Western 153! So far, we have 3 150s and a 158!

 

[Guinness]

I like it

 

[Techniquest]

My initial thoughts were:

'Oh dear God...'

Looks absolutely revolting to see a 153 in those colours. If they were going to do Desiro liveries on ex-CT 153s, it should have been the 444 style. Mind, it just doesn't fit a 1-carriage train at all!

 

[Gizmogle]

Looks like an odd livery of SWT.

That's the point...
It's Stagecoach East Midlands. Therefore it's the Stagecoach livery.

Looks weird though.

Brings this to mind... http://stephen9466.fotopic.net/p42504853.html

 

[Tom]

Swish.

Looks great!

Put it this way - that's the outer suburban livery. We'll probably see 158s in the express livery, as well as the HSTs and Meridians.

 

[Mintona]

Looks fantastic - nice shots Carl!

 

[carlwestwood]

just added another collection guys with other bits and bobs
including... Loughborough Brush seeing Compas Liveried 37610 and 37423. 5Z68 also arrived into Derby with 47787 t+t 57601 with the WCRC charter rake PLUS !! Steam Locomotives 76079 and 45407 aswell !!
theyre at http://cw-railpic.fpic.co.uk/c1404976.html

Cheers for the responses so far lads. i quite like the livery myself

 

[Coxster]

Nice shots Carl.

 

[JonG]

looks good to me

And me

 

[175001]

Looks weird...but I like it!!

Interiors seem untouched!

 

[devon_metro]

Enjoy the knackered interiors

 

[W14Fishbourne]

Hardly a surprise, it's a (slight) variation on the Stagecoach mid-distance/stopping service livery. I suspect that only the Meridians and HSTs will get the express livery. The question is, will there be a semi-dedicated suburban fleet that will get the red version of the livery as on the SWT 455s?

If SWT is anything to go by, I'd expect the interiors to be at least refreshed with new seat covers in fairly short order. Doing it in time for the launch is probably too ambitious.

 

[The Snap]

Yuk!

Indeed...

 

[gingerheid]

Nice photos.

I also like the livery - I'd personally say it's much better than what it replaced.

 

[me123]

Yuk was my first thought as well, but I've already grown to like it. It's very bold and it'll probably look good on other units. Not fantastic on 153s, but still a slight improvement.

 

[Coxster]

I suspect that only the Meridians and HSTs will get the express livery.

I think I read somewhere that the Class 158s will also get the white livery, and that a couple of "our" 158s had gone up for the launch.

 

[Tom]

Yep, 2 of our 158s went up ... destination Balloch.

 

[Aureol]

I think I read somewhere that the Class 158s will also get the white livery, and that a couple of "our" 158s had gone up for the launch.

I saw a white 158 EMT go past Pye Bridge today....felt like being down south (I was even on the footplate of a standard class 5! )!

 

[332 > 444]

Looks decent, although the 153 looks like a tank with all those visible bolts!

 

[Jim]

Stagecoach is not a company who I asociate 153's with though!

 

[Ascot]

Same boring stagecoach, would be nice even if they changed a few colours. Does look nice just nothing new.

 

[Jordy]

153 looks alright, much better than that fowl 222 hock:

 

[laseandre]

Yep, 2 of our 158s went up ... destination Balloch.

Balloch?!?!

 

[Tom]

ie. bollocks.

 

[laseandre]

Oh. Actually, I've lived near Balloch all my life and have only just noticed that.