Shortest Lived Livery

[Jordy]

Hi

I was trying to think earlier what the shortest lived livery would be, heres one short lived one I can think of.

http://www.southtpe.co.uk/pix/short_lived.JPG

Anyone got any others? I dont mean ones which went wrong, I mean ones they planned to use and then changed their minds.

Jordy

 

[Dennis]

43009 carried Angel decals for one day only (to 'celebrate' the first MTU rollout).

 

[ChrisCooper]

The new Thameslink livery was pretty short lived, since it only started being used a little before it was announced they wern't getting the new franchise. It particularly stands out if you refer to the actual livery, rarther than it's use on one particular train type (e.g Barbie has been around for quite a while, but it's use on the 185s was very short lived). Also, there are the 2 rejected Northern liveries. I presume we arn't counting advertising liveries here, or else there would be quite a few.

 

[Guinness]

The first ever franchised Great Western Service? Wasn't it called "Merlin" or something like that?...

 

[Dennis]

Merlin livery (green upper and initially white then ivory lower with a merlin logo) was applied following privatisation by MBO and before the buy-out by First. It lasted a couple of years before fag packet stripes were applied to the white (lower) part of the livery.

 

[Coxster]

The first ever franchised Great Western Service? Wasn't it called "Merlin" or something like that?...

The livery stuck with the 47s for quite a while later, I seem to recall(?). Back in the day of fairly regular loco hauled services over the GWML

 

[AlexS]

FGW Barbie one on the HST powercars? Seem to remember they lost the white pretty quickly.

Central Trains Go livery as an advertising livery disappeared fairly quickly.

Wales and West's experimental blue and orange livery

XP64 livery (until it was resurrected by Porterbrook?)

White with blue stripes on DMUs in the 70s? (took too much cleaning!)

The original class 150 livery?

Waterman Railways livery?

That black and white kind of livery the above applied to it's air con Mk2 stock?

 

[darrel]

the hsts were originally painted black and yellow instead of blue and yellow the first 2 or 3 power cars were painted like this but were repainted before they left crewe works

 

[Coxster]

Although only a sliught modification, what about the horrible red sripes on the front of some West Coast(?) HSTs in Intercity days. How long did that last?

 

[Ascot]

The bullring livery on a CT 170?

CT 150s new Central Paint with Centro stickers on (within about a few months they had to put NWM on)?

 

[Techniquest]

There was a shot I saw recently of a HST arriving into Holyhead that had red, black and thin white stripes on the front end of it. It certainly didn't last long!

Thanks for sharing that image, btw, Damon! I've saved it and am going to use it for my MSN avatar! Looks sooooo funky!

EDIT: Doesn't look as good in my MSN avatar as MS insist on cutting out the front end of the HST, but it'll do!

 

[metrocammel]

I am endeavouring to find a picture, but as yet, to no avail, of the very short lived "Network North West" livery that was applied to a couple of Newton Heath 150's in the early 90's. It was very similar to the "Network North West" "NW" logos that are still evident on several station names in Gtr. Manchester (such as Salford Crescent and Oldham Mumps- and some stations retain the colours, but have had the logo crudely covered over by cheapo Northern stickers!)

AFAIK, the "Network North West" idea was soon abandoned, and Reigonal Railways North West carried on until privatisation, and then the new livery for most Newton Heath 150's became the GMPTE "grey & red" colours (which was also relativley short lived, as the now defunt, yet still very evident, drab blue "North Western Trains Star" livery was adopted for the 142's/ 150's.

***EDIT: I still cannot find the NNW 150 pic, but heres the logo, on a station sign at Wigan Wallgate:

 

[theblackwatch]

Metcam, you have a PM regarding NNW livery...

 

[Jim]

Wales and West's experimental blue and orange livery

That stayed for over a year and a half I thought

 

[merseyrail508124]

I found this picture of a merseyrail unit in a livery I have never really seen. 508123. But I have seen 508123 in normal merseyrail livery.

 

[lev441]

The livery stuck with the 47s for quite a while later, I seem to recall(?). Back in the day of fairly regular loco hauled services over the GWML

I really loved that livery.. was so smart and i thought really suited the GW franchise.. Unlike the barbie (yuck)..

Anyways the liverey i thought was very short lived, was the grey 'graffiti' thameslink livery NSE introduced shortly before privatisation. It was disliked by thameslink so much that they re-liveried those units before the NSE ones..

see http://www.semg.org.uk/gallery/class319_02.html