Meridian Attack !!

[greentrainman]

222017 was attacked by graffiti artists or as l prefer to call them morons with spray cans !! Am l missing something here or is it just ridiculous ?

Judge for yourself

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barry13092/5520273021/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barry13092/5520269547/in/photostream/

 

[Darandio]

What would you be missing here?

Yes, it's ridiculous but it is what it is, its everywhere.

 

[BestWestern]

Wow, they really did a job on it, the ****s. Not even an 'artistic' attempt, just pure vandalism. Why go to the trouble, do they honestly not realise that it will just be cleaned straight off? I'm sure SWT will do a very thorough job of having it removed, so nothing too severe to worry about I guess, Any idea where it happened?

 

[ainsworth74]

I'm sure SWT will do a very thorough job of having it removed

Why would SWT remove graffiti from an EMT Meridian

But as others have said that's just vandalism pure and simple. Now artisitic graffiti I sometimes don't mind (I had a book years ago that contained dozens of pictures of graffiti from the New York Subway, they had some very impressive work there) but just tagging a train like that? Vandalism.

 

[BestWestern]

LOL a very good point indeed, my apologies! Although EMT might remove graffiti from an SWR set if they were borrowing it of course But yes, just pure idiocy.

- I accept that this ought perhaps to have read SWT

 

[ainsworth74]

Although EMT might remove graffiti from an SWR set if they were borrowing it of course

Why would EMT remove graffiti from a SWR (South Western Railway) train, and for that matter why would they be borrowing a train from India?

*I'll get my coat*

 

[westcoaster]

I'll post the just after photos in a minute. Happened last night at cricklewood. The other side is worse.

 

[londonmidland]

I saw this fly through Harlington with graffiti on, seems to of got worst shown it the picture. I'm assuming it got graffitied in the London area as 319's were also graffitied.

 

[westcoaster]

as promised, cab window was scrapped clean before departure from cricklewood.

 

[BestWestern]

Why would EMT remove graffiti from a SWR (South Western Railway) train, and for that matter why would they be borrowing a train from India?

*I'll get my coat*

...Oh dear oh dear, it's been a long day!! Let's just leave it to MML to remove the graffiti from their HST....Oh no, hold on....

Anyway, I notice the BTP lurking in the pics there, any of these idiots get their collars felt?

 

[WestCoast]

It's not artistic in the slightest - it's pure vandalism. Tags are not pretty and quite frankly much of this so called "urban art" (:roll is just unsightly.

 

[westcoaster]

No collars felt, long gone by then, passing driver called it in.

 

[ainsworth74]

...Oh dear oh dear, it's been a long day!! Let's just leave it to MML to remove the graffiti from their HST....Oh no, hold on....

Haha no worries, we all have our off days. And to be honest I've made some pretty spectacular mistakes on here in my time

Anyway, I notice the BTP lurking in the pics there, any of these idiots get their collars felt?

We can only hope.

 

[BestWestern]

We can hope, but even if they were caught it's unlikely that they'd recieve much in the way of a decent punishment :-/ I'm not familiar with this depot, is it a common target for the yobs? It never ceases to amaze me how unsecure some railway premises are in this day and age.

 

[12CSVT]

If you think that looks bad, you should see the state of some 319 units (and they continue to run in service when covered from top to bottom in graffiti). The problem with graffiti on 319s got significantly worse about two years ago when they started operating Southeastern diagrams - Bellingham sidings being notorious for graffiti attacks especially when units are stabled overnight.

 

[asylumxl]

Were the 319s attacked? I thought EMT only used the sidings during the day.

The problem with graffiti on 319s got significantly worse about two years ago when they started operating Southeastern diagrams - Bellingham sidings being notorious for graffiti attacks especially when units are stabled overnight.

Couldn't agree more. But at least at Bellingham you do get some artistic grafitti!

We can hope, but even if they were caught it's unlikely that they'd recieve much in the way of a decent punishment :-/ I'm not familiar with this depot, is it a common target for the yobs? It never ceases to amaze me how unsecure some railway premises are in this day and age.

In all my years of using the MML, I can honestly say I've heard very little about trains in the sidings at Cricklewood being attacked. So I'd say it isn't.

 

[westcoaster]

No only emt this time, a 319 got a few tags.

 

[BestWestern]

With the state of some of the 319's over the past couple of years a coat of graffiti is probably a bonus in some cases! Perhaps that's whay they stay in service LOL!

 

[Toad]

Looks familiar.....

Did this crowd design the First Great Western 'lights' livery ??

 

[BestWestern]

To wander slightly off topic, how many different liveries are there on the 319's these days? I've not worked to BTN for a time now but I recall them rolling up in just about any colour scheme you like, Southern ones always seemed to be the smartest. Those still wearing remnants of T'Link blue/yellow looked bloody awful, very possibly the scruffiest trains I can recall seeing just about anywhere. Are they all nicely vinyl-wrapped now?

 

[asylumxl]

There are 4 liveries if I remember rightly. The FCC "Capital" livery, Thameslink Programme livery, Southern livery and finally the Swiss tourist board livery.

 

[heart-of-wessex]

There are 4 liveries if I remember rightly. The FCC "Capital" livery, Thameslink Programme livery, Southern livery and finally the Swiss tourist board livery.

The swiss tourist board?? Never seen such livery and can't find one either? Do you have a picture link?

 

[MCR247]

It is an advertising livery vinyls carried over Southern livery on one unit

 

[Simon Poole]

I'm a fan of the Class 222 Merdians, i think they are better than the Class 220 and 221 Voyagers, but after seeing these pictures now those *******s! have (bleep!) me off!

I hope when they get caught, they get the book thrown at them and also i hope 222017 mows then down!!!!!

 

[ChrisCooper]

Do the Nuclear Flask trains still stop at Cricklewood overnight sometimes? If one of them got tagged it would cause the anti-nuclear lot to wet themselves either with fear or excitement (depending on the reason for their anti-nuclear stance).

 

[TomJ93]

It don't see much graffiti on trains, apart from NXEC ones which always seem covered.

shame, I do like the look of the Meridens and their livery.

 

[MCR247]

You mean NXEA?

 

[387star]

I can't stand the fcc livery so wouldn't call them nicely vinyled!
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Btw there are still a lot of 319s in southern livery- thought they being repainted?

 

[FLHH East Anglia]

You mean NXEA?

my thoughts too,can't say i've ever seen any EC trains 'done',but no doubt the lowlife have managed!

 

[Dennis]

i hope 222017 mows then down!!!!!

Then in the papers the next day "little Richard Head was such a lovely boy, would never get into trouble, showing great promise at art college blah blah blah...."