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New trains were promised if Virgin won the East Coast franchise... :) A4s in Pendolino-style Virgin livery. This image appeared in Steam Railway (no. 323) and The Railway Magazine (Jul 2006).
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    S_A4_1_vt.jpg   New trains were promised if Virgin won the East Coast franchise... :) A4s in Pendolino-style Virgin livery. This image appeared in Steam Railway (no. 323) and The Railway Magazine (Jul 2006).  06 Fictitious Liveries 2006 Part 1  (126)
    75_55019_drsc.jpg   The DRS Deltic... PLEASE - before anyone else comments that gosh DRS have actually bought this loco in real life, yes I know - that's why I made the image. 1300 views in the first 24 hours!  01 Latest Images  (120)
    S_CP_N3b.jpg   CP N3b 3716 on the Kettle Valley Railway, 21st May 2006.  06 Fictitious Liveries 2006 Part 1  (103)
    69_S_60163_BR_G.jpg   Created for the A1 Trust, this was made to give an impression of how Tornado would look once painted. The real thing has now been unveiled - much shinier than this! This image appeared in Steam Railway Magazine.  01 Latest Images  (89)
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    Most Recent Collections
    01 Latest Images (30 images)
    The latest images will appear here before being shunted off to the appropriate gallery.

    For older images follow the links above for other galleries on the site.
    02 Fictitious Trains 2007 (8 images)
    Modifications and mysterious machines created in 2007, including the Super-Deltic, British-outline 66, Pendolino loco & stock, the Clagging Pendolino and that weird Bo-Bo-Bo + Bo-Bo-Bo 86-esque electric.
    03 Fictitious Liveries 2007 (36 images)
    Images from 2007, including 04s in Blue, InterCity and LoadHaul; scrap 31s in NSE; 33s in Jaffa Cake and Railfreight Red Stripe; MML blue 47/37/73; a 40 in NSE; HST in Stagecoach; BRCW Lion in Two Tone Green, Blue, Large Logo and InterCity Swallow; DP2 in Blue; 86s in Hull Trains and Arriva XC; a 101 in Transpennine Express; 142 in NSE; 153 in GWR; Voyagers in Railfreight, Blue/Grey, InterCity Swallow, Royal Mail, and Stagecoach; Pendolino in Arriva XC; DVTs in variations of BR Blue; an A2 in BR Blue, and Regional Railways / BR Blue narrow gauge.
    04 Fictitious Liveries 2006 Part 2 (26 images)
    50 in Arriva; 55 in Northern; 86s in Northern; 87s in Bulgarian livery; 89 in Loadhaul; Pendolinos in GNE, Stagecoach, Network Rail and InterCity Swallow; 153s in BR Blue/Grey and Nightstar; GWR steam locos in First GW Neon/Nightclub; rebuilt West Country in SWT; reworked 9Fs in Railfreight, Large Logo and plain blue.
    05 Fictitious Trains 2006 (16 images)
    This collection contains fictitious locomotives, fictional trains and unusual modifications created in 2006.

    Class 14 master and slave; Class 18 (0-8-0 08!); Class 20 with two cabs/no cabs; Class 54 (double-loco Class 56) in Blue and Large Logo; APT-E production version in InterCity; Class 88s (electric HST and Modular AC loco); double-deck Mk3s; APT-S; Pendolino with large windows.
    06 Fictitious Liveries 2006 Part 1 (53 images)
    Fictitious Liveries created/published in the first half of 2006.

    Class 15s: Loadhaul, Derby RTC; Class 17 Clayton in Red-Stripe Railfreight; Class 20s in Dutch; Class 37 in First ScotRail Nightclub; 40s in Dutch and InterCity; Prototype HST in Production Blue/Yellow; HSTs in GWR Chocolate/Cream, GWR Loco Green, LNER Apple Green and Large Logo; 47 in Post Office Red; Deltic in Network Rail Yellow; 56 in InterCity Swallow; 58s in BR Blue, Loadhaul; 71s in Large Logo, NSE, Connex and Southern; 73s in Railfreight Coal Sector, Merseyrail; 77 in InterCity Swallow; 83s in BR Green; 85 in InterCity Mainline; 86s in Romanian, Original Railfreight, Railfreight Red-Stripe, Large Logo; 87 in Royal Mail livery; 92s in SNCF, Fastline Freight; APT-P in LMS Maroon; 9Fs in BR Blue, Large Logo, Red-Stripe Railfreight; A4s in Virgin, GNER; Bulleids in SWT; West Country Pacific in Southern; Canadian Pacific N3b in CP Rail Orange; Metropolitan Electrics in BR Blue, current Underground, InterCity Swallow; A60 stock in BR Blue, NSE; CO-CP stock in current Underground.
    07 Fictitious Trains 2005 (4 images)
    This collection contains fictitious locomotives, fictional trains and unusual modifications created in 2005.

    Class 50 with no headcode box; split-headcode Deltic; GM'd Virgin Thunderbird Deltic with Dellner coupler.
    08 Fictitious Liveries 2005 (38 images)
    Fictitious Liveries created between June and December 2005:

    APT-P in Grey/Blue, NSE, GNER, Virgin (both styles); 37s in ScotRail (NE & First); HSTs in Large Logo, NSE, Railfreight Distribution, SWT, Prototype Grey/Blue, Prototype Deltic, Nanking (Blue Pullman) Blue; Peak in First Transpenninexpress; HNRC 47; 56s in NSE, Wessex Pink; 66s in Blue, Large Logo, Triple-Grey; 84s in IC variations, Virgin; 87s in GBRF; Electric Blue 89; 90s in BR Blue, NSE, Large Logo, Anglia Green, First; 306 in NSE and One.
    09 Fictitious Liveries 2004 (51 images)
    This first selection of Fictitious Liveries was created in late 2004 and early 2005 following suggestions on the wnxx.com and preserved-diesels.co.uk forums, and includes a few older images.

    NSE 37; Dutch 40; Peaks in IC Mainline, MML Teal & Tangerine, Regional and Provincial; 50s in IC, BR ScotRail, One, Two-Tone Green; Westerns in Black/Silver, FGW (all varieties), IC Swallow, NSE; Deltics in Black/Silver, GNER, IC, Large Logo, One, Virgin, Blue/Grey; Prototype Deltic in Two-Tone Green, Rail Blue; 60 in Large Logo; 76s in Red Stripe Railfreight and Triple Grey; 83 in Black/Silver; 84 in Channel Tunnel Grey; Silverlink 85; One 86; 87s in LNWR Black, MML Teal & Tangerine, GW Green, One, Virgin Thunderbird, Bosnian; Large Logo 89; 92s in Freightliner Green and Large Logo.
    Real Applications (4 images)
    A number of mock-ups have been produced over the years that have later been applied in real life to various locomotives. Here are some examples.
    Trams (4 images)
    This section will probably only interest the die-hard Blackpool Tram fan! It was created off the back of some illustrations done for the Lancastrian Transport Trust (www.ltt.org.uk), using their Coronation Car no. 304 as the basis. Thanks to Philip Higgs for use of the base photo.
    Welcome

    Welcome to the Fictitious Liveries site. The images in this site are "what if" combinations of livery and locomotive, created in response to suggestions from various quarters, or just for fun, and brought to you by The AC Locomotive Group.

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