Jubilee Liveries Poll

[whhistle]

67: Alright, but a bit corporate looking?
HST: Awful. The design doesn't flow. I'm surprised at FGW to be honest.
357: The flag and a bit on the doors? Is that it?
90: The flag looks too big. Why is it not the same size as the black stripe?

I guess the 67 is the best out of them.

 

[PFX]

Simply by slapping a union flag on anything makes it jubilee it seems. The 90 and 357 both look like they've been subjected to this type of treatement - unimaginative and amateur.

As for the 43, I'm all for kids being given the chance to create but to be honest, it doesn't look good in the corporate world, even in an ironic way.

As a previous poster has said, the German owned Spanish loco has turned out by far the best.

Personally though, I find union jack this, olympics that being force-fed incessantly, slightly more than annoying.

 

[Dstock7080]

Don't they have a picture of it, then?

At last a photo!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/7210242480/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/7210147806/in/photostream
©bowroaduk

 

[SprinterMan]

At last a photo!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/7210242480/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/7210147806/in/photostream
©bowroaduk

Can you edit a poll?
If not please everyone vote "Other - TBA" for the tube train.

Looks like British Airways livery to me :P
Adam

 

[jopsuk]

so special liveries don't need "contrast" doors then?
I really, really don't like that logo.

 

[Schnellzug]

Well, another one has appeared, and I trust that some will be satisfied by this.. http://www.wnxx.com/pictures/47580.htm

 

[O L Leigh]

Better. Much better.

O L Leigh

 

[fgwrich]

Well, another one has appeared, and I trust that some will be satisfied by this.. http://www.wnxx.com/pictures/47580.htm

Now that is a Jubilee livery i am pleased to see!

 

[BestWestern]

I really, really don't like that logo.

I agree. That is the official Jubilee logo it seems, Stagecoach have also put it on the back end of some buses. It's awful, why on earth do we have to have something that looks like it's straight out of a Roald Dahl book as the official logo of such a major event? Whichever idiot made that decision must be locked in the Tower of London at once!

I saw the FGW 43 in person this week, and it looks just as awful as the photos

 

[tony1000]

Of the photo's we have here at the moment the 67 is by far the best but 47580 could now give it a run for it's money.

 

[BestWestern]

On a serious note though, is the 47 not just unimaginative as the other Union Flag efforts?

 

[Oswyntail]

On a serious note though, is the 47 not just unimaginative as the other Union Flag efforts?

Absolutely - it was unimaginative back then, and is less so today. At least the 67 version has some sense of design. There are so many elements to the flag that could be used, just to slap it on a slab side is a cop-out

 

[PFX]

Simply by slapping a union flag on anything makes it jubilee it seems. The 90 and 357 both look like they've been subjected to this type of treatement - unimaginative and amateur.

I think the 47 falls into this category too.

 

[Schnellzug]

On a serious note though, is the 47 not just unimaginative as the other Union Flag efforts?

That's what i remarked about the 90; that's basically what Stratford did, just put a big Union Flag on the otherwise basic rail blue. In that respect, the 90 is following in the old tradition.

 

[NXEA!]

It's got to be the 90 for me, when I see it passing through Marks Tey whenever I'm on my travels it looks very smart and absolutely superb in my opinion, and it pays homage to the old Stratford tradition. The best Jubilee repaint in my opinion however is 47580 - look on the WNXX homepage, looks absolutely superb, a good reminder of 47163/164!
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Fine, so paint it blue with a red bufferbeam and all the other celebratory paraphenalia, but for heavens sake don't put a Stratford silver roof on an electric loco. Alternatively, paint up a Cl47 in BR banger blue with a silver roof and union flags and make it a proper homage to 47164's Silver Jubilee livery.

The silver roof is a superfluous detail and has NOTHING to do with the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

O L Leigh

http://www.wnxx.com/pictures/47580.htm What do you reckon?

 

[tony1000]

I quite agree with you NXEA 47580 looks absolutely superb it might be simple but time and care has been taken over the loco to have it Bulled up so it really looks the part.

 

[Schnellzug]

I suppose the reason we haven't had any Olympic liveries is because all that is so tightly controlled by lord Coe and LOCOG. For that, perhaps, we ought to be grateful.

 

[Temple Meads]

I suppose the reason we haven't had any Olympic liveries is because all that is so tightly controlled by lord Coe and LOCOG. For that, perhaps, we ought to be grateful.

We should be, in fact, I think we should be getting out the party poppers :P

 

[gazthomas]

47580 for me too. Takes me back

 

[Oswyntail]

I suppose the reason we haven't had any Olympic liveries is because all that is so tightly controlled by lord Coe and LOCOG. For that, perhaps, we ought to be grateful.

Nothing to do with Coe or LOCOG, who are just organising the events. The control freaks are the IOC