Loadhaul Class 15, 15033, looking a little the worse for wear after a long and arduous career...

Faded Research Division Class 15. More glamorous than train heating, anyway!

Red-Stripe Railfreight Clayton. And why not?

To stop the rising tide of complaints that there are no 20s on this site, a pair of them in Dutch.

First Nightclub liveried ScotRail 37s... There's not really enough space on the bodyside for all those swirls, though!

InterCity 40; a bit faded.

The dutch 40 has appeared here before, but here's a better view of it.

How the Prototype HST power cars might have looked in the livery of the Production sets.

One common suggestion is for an HST in Great Western livery. Here's one in Chocolate and Cream, assuming the 125s fit into the GWR's "railcar" concept. (I'm not the first to do Chocolate and Cream on an HST, but I thought I'd have a go anyway.)

Traditionalists might prefer (or not!) a more "locomotive" feel for a GWR-liveried power car. Green changing to Chocolate and Cream to the rear.

A common request is for an HST set where the power car is painted as a locomotive: here's the large logo 43 on a rake of blue-grey Mk3s.

In the interests of fairness, here's how an HST might look under LNER ownership.

A different take on Mail by Rail.

An update of the First Barbie Nightclub Western, using the finalised livery design.

First spotted lurking behind the Loadhaul Bone - Network Rail Old Measurement Train Deltic!

Would 56s have made good passenger locos? That would depend on whether InterCity livery suited them.

Class 58 in plain BR Blue.

Did this combination ever happen in real life? Loadhaul 58.

Class 71 in Large Logo Blue - this wouldn't work on the other side!

Revised Network SouthEast on a 71.

Connex 71.

A 71 into the present with Southern livery.

Coal sector 73

73 in the new Merseyrail livery.

There are a lot of "if"s in this image... Class 77 in InterCity Swallow livery, as might have been seen if the LNER plan to electrify the GCR to London had been carried out, and if route had stayed open, and if a larger fleet of EM2s had been built (27 were originally planned), and if they'd still been in traffic in 1990...

What would the AC electrics have looked like in BR Green? Plain green 83.

83 in Deltic style two-tone green.

83 in 47-style two tone green.

Another livery that was but a signature away from happening: InterCity Main Line on Class 85.

An 86 modelling red-stripe railfreight - strangely never applied to any ACs in service.

Railfreight grey 86 without the stripe.

Another common livery never seen on an AC (except for 82008 in preservation) - large logo blue.

One of the more recent rumours doing the rounds is the possible export of 86s to Romania. Here's one in Romanian State Railways livery.

Rumours that two 87s might receive Royal Mail livery prompted this illustration.

With SNCF poised to launch their own UK operation, here's a 92 in Anglicised SNCF Fret livery.

If SNCF had taken their 92s away for internal use in France, they might have received the full SNCF Fret livery.

92s in the new Fastline Freight livery.

In the 1980s there was a vision of APTs heading for Paris via the Channel Tunnel...

APT-P in LMS red.

Don't have a good shot of a 9F, so these mock-ups are a bit rough. BR Blue livery, without any extras. A better rendition of 9Fs in BR Blue can be found in a later gallery.

People often say that 9Fs and the like would look good in large logo livery. I'm not convinced ... A better rendition of 9Fs in Large Logo Blue can be found in a later gallery.

9F in Railfreight Grey - almost suits it! Another rendition of 9Fs in grey can be found in a later gallery.

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).

By popular demand, A4s in GNER livery. Not quite as imposing as the Virgin scheme.

A pair of SWT Bulleid Pacifics head for the West Country from Waterloo with a rake of Mk3s in tow... My entry for a 2005 modern-livery competition applied to an original photo by Jon Bowers (see link on home page). Thanks to Jon for use of the photo.

CP N3b 3716 on the Kettle Valley Railway, 21st May 2006.

West Country Pacific in Southern livery. Thanks to Steve Roffey for use of the original photo. (Congratulations to Eddie Bellass for being the first to spot the odd buffer beam reflection!) This image appeared in Steam Railway (no 323).

Sarah Siddons as she might have looked under different ownership.

The Metropolitan always considered itself a Main Line company. Met Bo-Bo in InterCity Swallow livery.

Not an easy loco to edit - lots of raised bits and lining. Here's what a Metropolitan Railway electric loco might look like in the current Underground livery. In case you're wondering why it doesn't have red doors, generally speaking only passenger doors are painted red on Underground stock.

What if London Underground's Metropolitan line had passed to BR? Here a train of A60 stock models plain BR Blue.

Following the theme, A60 stock in Network SouthEast.

CO/CP stock in the current Underground livery.