Unusual stock in normal liveries

[BestWestern]

So, I'm interested to learn of examples of unusual rolling stock having been painted into mainstream TOC liveries. Sparked by a couple of photos of training carriages at FGWs St Philips Marsh depot; a Mk1 buffet and a Mk2 open both painted into current blue & pink fleet livery.

Are there any other oddities hidden away?

 

[swt_passenger]

SWT have a few really odd unreliable old trains in a livery vaguely similar to their 450s...

 

[Liam]

08308 is in Scotrail colours.

 

[Adam0984]

Not sure if this counts but the shunter and carriage in the Eureka yard at Halifax in Northern colours

 

[Monty]

Not sure if it's still there or not, but their used to be a exBR CCT at Wimbledon Park in the older stagecoach livery.

 

[Masboroughlad]

So, I'm interested to learn of examples of unusual rolling stock having been painted into mainstream TOC liveries. Sparked by a couple of photos of training carriages at FGWs St Philips Marsh depot; a Mk1 buffet and a Mk2 open both painted into current blue & pink fleet livery.

Are there any other oddities hidden away?

Can we see these?

 

[DXMachina]

is a pair of London Transport Cl.20 odd enough to qualify?

 

[Darandio]

Surely 'Clive' is worth a mention?

http://ukrailways1970tilltoday.me.uk/NVRFCC03179Clive2008.jpg

 

[fgwrich]

How about ex BR Mk 2c TSO 5524 that now resides in the Eureka Museum in Halifax, now repainted in a sponsored repaint into Northern Rail Livery.

http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=2837

(A coach, which with some irony, is probably in better condition than most of Northern Rail's fleet!).

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

I know some. The East Midlands Trains depot in Derby has 3 class-08 shunters in stagecoach rail livery. There is also an old diesel that is painted in London Underground colours which takes new tube trains from Derby to London. I think it's a class-20 but I'm not certain. The Stourbridge class-139s run by London Midland may count as unusual. Sheffield Supertram uses stagecoach rail livery.

This one is now outdated, but Midland Mainline used to run a bus service to Corby in their livery. This line has reopened.

 

[Strathclyder]

A Class 303 was repainted into Network South-East livery in the early 1990s for departmental use:

Image source: http://www.networksoutheast.net/emu-ac.html

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Arriva Trains Wales had driving van trailers from class 90s on their colours.
Eurostar and Londom Midland also have a class 08 in their livery.
Southern has a loco in Gatwick express livery.
The Virgin train which derailed at Grayrigg has been reused as a static training vehicle.
And a class 31 is in Intercity swallow livery.

 

[GatwickDepress]

Southern has a loco in Gatwick express livery.

73202 is now in Southern livery, but it does have a GX sticker on it too!


SUNBATHING 73 by NIGHTSHIFTWORKER, on Flickr

Surely 'Clive' is worth a mention?

http://ukrailways1970tilltoday.me.uk/NVRFCC03179Clive2008.jpg

I've always thought Clive would've looked a lot nicer without the tatty FCC sticker (was the design referred to as something like City Lights?).

 

[jopsuk]

covering for Class 91s, the Class 89 and a single class 90 received GNER livery

 

[CP165]

Why have FGW painted that MK2 coach when it's only used for training? Would it ever be used in service for summer crowd-busters or anything? It looks pretty smart!

 

[pdeaves]

Why have FGW painted that MK2 coach when it's only used for training? Would it ever be used in service for summer crowd-busters or anything? It looks pretty smart!

At a guess, either:

1. To engender a sense of local pride; or
2. An apprentice training/practice exercise; or
3. It was falling apart and had to be painted, and the corporate colours were readily available; or
4. Any combination of the above!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I did see a photo of a NetworkSouthEast van (I think it was a transit, complete with yellow front) in a magazine years ago... Not sure if it was actually an NSE van or just an enthusiastic tribute though.

 

[gg1]

I did see a photo of a NetworkSouthEast van (I think it was a transit, complete with yellow front) in a magazine years ago... Not sure if it was actually an NSE van or just an enthusiastic tribute though.

That one rings a bell although I can't find a pic of it.

NSE were rather fond of slapping their livery on anything that moved:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36034969@N08/4438495448/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49729935@N06/13754160805

http://www.networksoutheast.net/uploads/3/5/5/9/3559064/8079613_orig.jpg

 

[dubscottie]

RES Mk 2..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dmc1947/6200972774/

 

[61653 HTAFC]

That one rings a bell although I can't find a pic of it.

NSE were rather fond of slapping their livery on anything that moved:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36034969@N08/4438495448/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49729935@N06/13754160805

http://www.networksoutheast.net/uploads/3/5/5/9/3559064/8079613_orig.jpg

That bus gives an idea of what double deck stock might have looked like in the late 1980s had we had any... A sort of "Pacer-max"!

The van photo was, I think, in a copy of RAIL... But possibly back when it was known as 'Rail Enthusiast".

 

[dubscottie]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanie-layton/8914787184/

Wonder if its the same lad that had one painted in Intercity and Regional Railways..

 

[Clip]

That one rings a bell although I can't find a pic of it.

NSE were rather fond of slapping their livery on anything that moved:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36034969@N08/4438495448/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49729935@N06/13754160805

http://www.networksoutheast.net/uploads/3/5/5/9/3559064/8079613_orig.jpg

that bus looks excellent.

 

[jopsuk]

NSE were rather fond of slapping their livery on anything that moved:

if it didn't move they painted it red

 

[L+Y]

Pre grouping carriage in BR Blue/Grey
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/14748010617/

Golden Arrow Pullmans in Blue/Grey and reversed "Corporate Pullman" Grey/Blue
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/13252443825/

 

[theblackwatch]

A Class 303 was repainted into Network South-East livery in the early 1990s for departmental use:

Image source: http://www.networksoutheast.net/emu-ac.html

Similarly, there was a Departmental Class 302/305 hybrid set that carried InterCity colours - see http://www.flickr.com/photos/24041160@N02/8397055571

Or how about a HST coach (TRUK 40516) in NSE livery. There's a rather poor picture at http://www.southernelectric.org.uk/features/rolling-stock/442/img/rsmth_mk3demo.jpg

 

[Doctor Fegg]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanie-layton/8914787184/

Wonder if its the same lad that had one painted in Intercity and Regional Railways..

There was a (short) narrowboat painted in that livery, too. Used to moor in Hopwas, I think.

 

[gg1]

Pre grouping carriage in BR Blue/Grey
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/14748010617/

Wow, I knew a few big 4 designed coaches received blue & grey - most famously a Gresley buffet which survived until the late 70s - but not anything anywhere near that old. Does anyone know anything about the history of it?

Another pic of the same coach is here with a couple of other interesting blue/grey recipients, what looks like a flat wagon & open sided container to the left and a Pullman coach (of a different design to the ones in L+Y's other pic) to the right:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5857010529/in/set-72157627015279966

 

[D6975]

A few LMS sleepers survived long enough to receive standard blue/grey livery.

 

[Cherry_Picker]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanie-layton/8914787184/

Wonder if its the same lad that had one painted in Intercity and Regional Railways..

I think that's Virgin's new stock for the Preston to Blackpool leg of their new EUS - BPN service. We all know northerners like to feel hard done by so Virgin have obliged. It's still better than a Pacer.

 

[pemma]

I think that's Virgin's new stock for the Preston to Blackpool leg of their new EUS - BPN service. We all know northerners like to feel hard done by so Virgin have obliged. It's still better than a Pacer.

Virgin Trains do offer a service between Southport and Preston. However, it's on a Stagecoach bus!