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It's more an alteration than a new livery.
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Trivia: Fewest livery changes in the lifetime of a fleet
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E_Reeves
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It depends which way you look at it, really. It also looks like the RM logo is larger on the newer version?
bramling
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Vinyl. The 365s never got the painted version. Upon moving to WAGN the 16x Connex 365s has the vinyls stripped off to return to NSE livery.
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The Hastings Diesel thumpers were only green & BR blue/grey
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Would most of the Riddles era BR steam locos have only had one livery until scrapping?
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4079 Pendennis Castle has been in the same Brunswick Green with orange and black lining since it was built in 1923. Presently being restored to working order again at Didcot, in a few years it will have been operating for 100 years in the same colours.
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Looking at Flickr 153311 & 153326 have only carried Regional Railways & EMT liveries, I'm sure there's some more 153s & 156s that are in the same boat
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The 14s and 17s might count, as none even managed a decade in BR service! However, examples of both classes carried other liveries in industrial use.
Strathclyder
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The Class 334s have only seen one livery change in nearly 20 years: SPT Carmine/Cream (1999-2014) -> ScotRail 'Saltire' (2010-present). While not nearly as impressive as some of the other examples above, I thought was worth a mention regardless.
Class 55 only went through one change, from two-tone green to blue, didn't they? I'm not sure if the addition of yellow warning panels and white window surrounds would really count as a major change.
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Wha...? I don't remember seeing this before, and having just googled for a photo...You'd be forgiven for forgetting Gordon Highlander in Porterbrook Purple, most try!
Y'know, I don't think it looks all that bad, really. At least they kept the style. Shame about the lights, though.
EDIT - I wonder if they would ever have made it into large logo blue had they survived a little longer.
Well it still counts...
sprinterguy
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Yes, it is.
I don't think there are any 156s that have carried less than three liveries, given that only the Scotrail and Regional Railways North East units retained their original Provincial livery at the time of privatisation (Plus the orange/black SPT units), and have all been repainted at least twice since then.
sprinterguy
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That's definitely a good shout - Only one change of livery in almost forty years!
Thanks. Come to think of it, some of the Southern EMU's would have been in all over green throughout their lives. PAN's/PUL's/NOL's etc. Depends how far back one wants to go !
eastwestdivide
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Also some all-blue, according to the table at http://www.bloodandcustard.com/6carhastings.html
And those Hastings cars that were reformed into "Tadpole" units were all-blue into the late 70s.
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90 048(I think)? very tatty grey livery.
Ash Bridge
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English Electric Classs 40 D306 (40106) wore green livery for its entire BR in service years, the only alterations being the addition of full yellow ends and obviously the application of TOPS renumbering during the 1970s.
E_Reeves
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Quite a lot of 60s are still in their original base livery, right?
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ScottDarg
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92044. Still in original two-tone grey with tunnel rings and Crewe IEMD plaque.
1996: https://flic.kr/p/a5PudV (not my pic)
November 2018: https://flic.kr/p/2cT59qc (my pic)
Still a few DB 92s in the grey livery, though they do have a large EWS logo on the side so not entirely original.
92036 in 2001: https://flic.kr/p/92WUG8 (not my pic)
Same loco in August 2018: https://flic.kr/p/MHaBkJ (not my pic)
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Common misconception (or more likely just misremembering) seems to be that EMUs wore a single BR Blue livery. Most (possibly all AC sets) went through all blue and Blue and Grey. So the 303s wore Caledonian Blue, Rail Blue, Blue and Grey and then Strathclyde Orange (plus a few in GMPTE livery). 308s and 504s (both mentioned above) went through three liveries before BR sectorisation, Green, Blue and Blue and Grey.
Here's one for you ....the Lancaster Morecambe and Heysham AC sets introduced in the early 1950s. If you don't count their previous incarnation as DC units (when they were essentially different trains) they only ever carried BR Green (I think).
Here's one for you ....the Lancaster Morecambe and Heysham AC sets introduced in the early 1950s. If you don't count their previous incarnation as DC units (when they were essentially different trains) they only ever carried BR Green (I think).
Ian Walmsley's idea I believe.
Good point; they were maybe the longest lasting diesels in any single scheme. Possibly never repainted.
Wivenswold
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304002/9/17/32/33 all of which made it to 1996 in Blue/grey via Green and all over blue. Withdrawn when 36 years old.
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One or two were plain blue for a brief period, and one departmental unit got NSE livery.
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