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The Azuma livery was only ever intended to be on that set 800 101, it was for marketing purposes and the final livery hadn't been designed.
That was straight from the horses mouth as it were, Sam Jessup who was chief designer for both Virgin Trains franchises at the time, was at the Azuma event and was clear this was simply a promotional livery.
What we don't know is whether Virgin were going to use a similar livery to this one if they launched the Azuma or whether it was completely different. A ribbon logo on VTWC was just because they needed something to put on the Pendolinos when they were painted.
Sam left Virgin last year and I don't know if he did do a final Azuma livery.
That was straight from the horses mouth as it were, Sam Jessup who was chief designer for both Virgin Trains franchises at the time, was at the Azuma event and was clear this was simply a promotional livery.
What we don't know is whether Virgin were going to use a similar livery to this one if they launched the Azuma or whether it was completely different. A ribbon logo on VTWC was just because they needed something to put on the Pendolinos when they were painted.
Sam left Virgin last year and I don't know if he did do a final Azuma livery.