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Virgin Trains East Coast franchise to end 24 June 2018 and is temporarily re-nationalised
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XCTurbostar
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They used to announce "Virgin Trains East Coast". Do they just say "LNER" now?
ModernRailways
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It is said 'London North Eastern Railway'.
dorsetdesiro
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Blimey, they moved quickly didn't they! I thought LNER wasn't supposed to start until this Sunday? Things must be bad enough at VTEC for LNER to start their franchise two days early.
As for the announcements, I guess it's like GWR & SWR which you see the company's name only by the acronyms and hear the full name announced.
As for the announcements, I guess it's like GWR & SWR which you see the company's name only by the acronyms and hear the full name announced.
SaveECRewards
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The LNER website (which is now the VTEC one rebranded) says LNER begins on Sunday, so it's still officially VTEC today (i.e. East Coast Main Line Company Ltd) but they're using the brand early.
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New LNER station Wi-Fi at Doncaster, had to re-register to use it 
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The company Mastercards in use by my employer still say East Coast Mainline on our statements
Wallsendmag
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The site hangs off of a Central Booking Engine as do the TVMs and DORIS. Several sub systems feed into the CBE and these all need updating (there was a small CBE update as well last night). Everything needs to be logged out, updated logged back in and tested. We've done half a dozen or so of these updates now and have got it down to about 3-4 hours start to finish. There were extra stages last night that made it a longer process, emails and URLs changed so it was a longer night.
There was all singing, all dancing LNER branding going on today at Newcastle.
I got an LNER jute bag including a somewhat odd range of goodies from LNER branded rock through to 'we need get rid of these' Virgin Trains swim caps. But it did at least contain a 30% off voucher for the LNER website.
I got an LNER jute bag including a somewhat odd range of goodies from LNER branded rock through to 'we need get rid of these' Virgin Trains swim caps. But it did at least contain a 30% off voucher for the LNER website.
As I thought, delete Virgin, insert LNER. No point at all in doing anything other than that!
What is LEDWR supposed to mean on that board. If a joke, I don't get it.
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See what they did to Newcastle in post #1998, and Durham back in post #2046. Agree it’s all pretty stupid.
XCTurbostar
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The LNER brand fits that livery so much better than it does Virgin.
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It's even more stupid and contrived than anything Virgin did.
This is a bit of a disaster. Nobody understands what they are trying to advertise. Who would sign this sort of amateurish advertising off?
If only the railway in all the time it has existed had come up with 3 letter codes for the stations, all this could have been avoided!
Thing is, using the right codes or not, the idea of just inserting 'random' characters doesn't make sense. It will never read properly, and the DUR one seems particularly silly as it almost looks insulting. Even if only a handful of people took it that way, anyone half decent in marketing would know not to even risk that - especially with social media ensuring those few will make a big deal of it.
You could counter that by saying 'all publicity is good publicity' but I am not sure that was the intention. It was just someone thinking they were clever without perhaps having it it run by others who could be critical of it, and do the obvious **** taking before the general public did! Like when choosing a name for a baby.
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Nobody in VTEC has, that’s all I’m going to say
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