SWR Repaints and Refurbishments

[pompeyfan]

I've seen a picture from a colleague taken at what looks like Guildford so I think it's real too. Just wondering on how many units etc been done

 

[Feathers44]

I've seen a picture from a colleague taken at what looks like Guildford so I think it's real too. Just wondering on how many units etc been done

I haven't seen one (455 or 456) without the SWT text go past the house yet but I'm not religiously watching the line.

 

[387star]

Well little has changed I expected all trains to be wearing the new livery quite disappointed ??????

 

[Carntyne]

Well little has changed I expected all trains to be wearing the new livery quite disappointed ��

Overnight?

 

[Feathers44]

Well little has changed I expected all trains to be wearing the new livery quite disappointed ��

Really? Wow, how many train painters workshops did you think were available at 2 o'clock on a Sunday morning?

 

[SpacePhoenix]

What's the first bit of stock due in for its routine repaint?

Will the Island Line trains be keeping their current livery?

 

[Nicks]

Some SWR rebranding seen today:

Wimbledon depot sign
Platform indicators using SWR or South Western Railway digital messages
One member of staff with a SWR lanyard at Wimbledon
Surbiton leaflet racks have SWR branded leaflets.

 

[Agent_Squash]

Meanwhile at Winchester, it almost looks like nothing has changed...

 

[nlogax]

Mods - any chance the two ongoing SWR branding / repaint threads could be merged? It's getting downright confusing in here ??????

 

[43096]

Some SWR rebranding seen today:



Wimbledon depot sign

Platform indicators using SWR or South Western Railway digital messages

One member of staff with a SWR lanyard at Wimbledon

Surbiton leaflet racks have SWR branded leaflets.

Several staff around at Waterloo with new hi-vis carrying the short form of the new branding (replace # with the new logo):

SW
#R

Frankly it just looks cr@p. Be far better off as just #SWR.

 

[swt_passenger]

Several staff around at Waterloo with new hi-vis carrying the short form of the new branding (replace # with the new logo):

SW
#R

Frankly it just looks cr@p. Be far better off as just #SWR.

That's what I thought about the use of that format on the train mockup too.

If they are going to have the TOC operating name in full along the bodyside anyway, what's the point of having the initials as well?

 

[MCR247]

I quite like where they're going, although I think the 'short 2 line version' of their logo should be in a box

 

[urpert]

A quick pop to Vauxhall via Clapham Jn revealed no SWR branding other than the automated announcements. In fact I saw a 450 at CJ showing ‘South West Trains’ on its side displays!

 

[pompeyfan]

Can confirm there's a 455 running around with new vinyls covering up the logo. Didn't get the number though.

 

[Matt Taylor]

That would be 5864, it was at Guildford next to my train on my way back from Waterloo.

 

[paok]

Reading through the Twitter link from earlier in this thread I see someone has posted the following:

https://twitter.com/Silverlink_/status/899279374729568256

 

[antharro]

What is the attraction with white trains? Just shows the dirt that much more clearly!

Do we know yet if SWR will have multiple liveries, or just the one? It was quite good with SWT having the white (long distance), red (short distance/metro), and blue (middle distance, excepting those on Portsmouth services!).

 

[PHILIPE]

SWR is not part of GWR Getting off thread

 

[MatthewRead]

SWR is not part of GWR Getting off thread

But they're both owned by the First Group franchise.

 

[PHILIPE]

But they're both owned by the First Group franchise.

My embarassing error. Thought I was looking at the GWR Livery thread

 

[Kite159]

I wonder if the next 158 to visit Loughborough (887?) will come back in the new livery or will it come back in the SWT style?

 

[507021]

Reading through the Twitter link from earlier in this thread I see someone has posted the following:

https://twitter.com/Silverlink_/status/899279374729568256

I'm not a fan of that all, I'm afraid.

 

[Cowley]

I'm not a fan of that all, I'm afraid.

I'm with you on that. Drab indeed.

 

[TEW]

I wonder if the next 158 to visit Loughborough (887?) will come back in the new livery or will it come back in the SWT style?

I understand the unit currently there is EMT's 158889 so we will have a while to wait. I'd be quite surprised if the next one came back in SWT livery though.

 

[SpacePhoenix]

Are SWRs current Thunderbird loco(s) due a scheduled repaint at all?

 

[superalbs]

444040 is currently working 5Z40 in the new livery. It appears to closely resemble the mock-up, but First Class looks massively reduced.

EDIT: Nevermind, it just seems that the stripe doesn't cover the full length of the First Class area.

 

[Defiance149]

Vid up of the 444 already www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlKSVqN4Zro

 

[Domh245]

It looks smart, but I fail to understand what the people who designed this livery (and the TPE one) have against putting the unit numbers above the windscreens on gangwayed Desiros. They look odd without it IMO.

 

[SpacePhoenix]

Vid up of the 444 already www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlKSVqN4Zro

To embed a youtube video, use youtube bb tags with the bit of the url after the ?v= inbetween the youtube tags

Using the video as an example:

[youtube]FlKSVqN4Zro[/youtube]

 

[387star]

Why does a 455 have flowers on the side of one coach