Having watched one of the companies latest videos to staff about the GWR rebrand, it seems to suggest (without explicitly saying it) that most of the stock will remain looking the same.
The fact the HST set came back to Laira in blue yesterday seems to support this, I guess LA15 and 43188 will go green for the launch on sept 20th, but it perhaps seems unlikely much more HST stock will be repainted....:cry:
I did hear, though painting of vehicles isn't something I know much about, that Kilmarnock has sufficient blue paint to finish the HST overhaul/refurbishment work, that nobody was prepared to sign off on replacement green paint being ordered and the blue paint being disposed of, and that they might be prepared to vinyl HST sets instead as this would be the cheapest way to get HST sets into the green livery.
The repainting is needed under the lease agreement with the ROSCO, so can't be avoided. The green vinyl plan was to be subject to a business case, but quite how you could have a business case for unnecessary livery application, I don't know.
I dread to think how many miles of electrification we've burned through in paint, vinyl, logos, seat covers, posters, designers and advertising since 1994.
