It's now happening with buses mirrors there being painted yellow so people of a certain height don't hit there heads
This has nothing to do with applying common liveries.
It's now happening with buses mirrors there being painted yellow so people of a certain height don't hit there heads
I'm not sure that the Pendolinos will have been repainted to date. The modern paint systems that are used on rolling stock produce a finish that is good for ten to fifteen years, which is why in many cases the Regional Railways liveries hung around for so long after privatisation and why BR Trainload Freight liveries are still visible on many active freight locos even today.More ignorance from the general public I guess.. in that they don't realise the trains would need repainting periodically anyway, and I'm sure Virgin has given the 390s a new coat of paint/vinyls already during their operation.
Given that the lengthened sets still carry all the same dirt over the bodysides and roof that the nine carriage sets have accumulated, and that the two new carriages in the set are immediately identifiable through being dramatically cleaner than the rest of the train then I rather doubt it.I thought they'd actually been repainted as part of the lengthening/overhauls they're going through right now. Though I'm not sure where I heard that from so it's quite possibly wrong.
Given that the lengthened sets still carry all the same dirt over the bodysides and roof that the nine carriage sets have accumulated, and that the two new carriages in the set are immediately identifiable through being dramatically cleaner than the rest of the train then I rather doubt it.
The Pendolinos retain their original paintwork as do the Voyagers.I thought they'd actually been repainted as part of the lengthening/overhauls they're going through right now.
The Pendolinos retain their original paintwork as do the Voyagers.
Not been keeping up with all the tooing and froing but I was reading in the paper today that First Group's increase in passenger numbers of 15% is going to be down to reducing anytime tickets by 15%. This was attributed to the head honcho? Is this actually true? I had to read it several times - it sounded wee bit far fetched. Do they actually have evidence to show that reducing anytime ticket prices encourages more people to travel? Personally speacking a 15% reduction is not enough to encourage me to buy an anytime ticket. A reduction in the region of 50 - 60% possibly.
I do wonder why the RMT is so supportive of SRB though. Has Richard given a donation to the union or something?
I'm sure FirstGroup have said that the growth will come from attracting people on to off-peak services. As I understand it the 15% reduction of Anytime tickets is partly to reduce the perception of the high price of rail tickets to non-users and partly to reduce the massive gap between off-peak and Anytime ticketsNot been keeping up with all the tooing and froing but I was reading in the paper today that First Group's increase in passenger numbers of 15% is going to be down to reducing anytime tickets by 15%. This was attributed to the head honcho? Is this actually true? I had to read it several times - it sounded wee bit far fetched. Do they actually have evidence to show that reducing anytime ticket prices encourages more people to travel? Personally speacking a 15% reduction is not enough to encourage me to buy an anytime ticket. A reduction in the region of 50 - 60% possibly.
Including those Voyagers that are now with XC (who, because they simply vinyled over their predecessors' colours, managed to do a full fleet relivery in well under a year).
I'm sure FirstGroup have said that the growth will come from attracting people on to off-peak services. As I understand it the 15% reduction of Anytime tickets is partly to reduce the perception of the high price of rail tickets to non-users and partly to reduce the massive gap between off-peak and Anytime tickets
That is true , O'Toole said that at the select committee enquiry.
The Pendolinos retain their original paintwork as do the Voyagers.
If flying, what's the 'walk up' fare?
I wasn't disputing whether it would work or not.I don't think it will work. £250 for Manchester to London still sounds incredibly expensive (because it is still incredibly expensive!), and also is still more expensive than the Anytime fare via the Midland Main Line (currently priced at £211.50).
Reduce it to £199 or more realistically £149, then car travellers may consider the train.
As I said earlier, HST's had three distinct liveries between 1976-1996. BR Blue was initially all over but was supplanted by blue and grey after less than 10 years. That was further supplanted by NSE and Regional Railways liveries in the mid eighties.
Virgin' largely unchanged livery at 11 years old is positively ancient, even by BRs standards.
I wasn't disputing whether it would work or not.
However , I do take issue with your fare assumptions.
An off-peak return Manchester-London, which is what Mr O'T was talking about is £74.
Perfectly acceptable to me without doing any research on splits etc.which I would normally do.
Within the next week or so, the train booking websites will allow booking for Sunday December 9th and onwards. It will be interesting to see what they state is the train operator, "train operator currently unknown"?
As I said earlier, HST's had three distinct liveries between 1976-1996. BR Blue was initially all over but was supplanted by blue and grey after less than 10 years. That was further supplanted by NSE and Regional Railways liveries in the mid eighties.
Virgin' largely unchanged livery at 11 years old is positively ancient, even by BRs standards.
Pardon the pendant view BUT as far as I remember HSTs have never carried Regional Railways or NSE livery, all it carried to my knowledge was:
BR Blue Grey
InterCity Executive
InterCity Swallow
I've never heard of any HST in BR days being painted in any livery but these!