Fictitious Liveries http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/ 11 rows en-gb 60 02 Fictitious Trains 2007 http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c1360650.html 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. Monday 1 January 2007: 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.

And now for something completely different. What if Virgin West Coast had opted for loco and stock instead of EMUs? What a British Shed might look like. I've been meaning to try this for a while, adding a more 'British' body to a 66. I'm sure there are other ways of doing it, but here's mine. Super Deltic 1: Another one I've wanted to do for ages - the Super Deltic. No1. This image is based on the official EE drawings published in Brian Webb's book: 4600hp, Class 50-style body, etc. The only compromise is the fuel tanks which are straight off a production 55. Super Deltic 2: InterCity Executive Super Deltic 3: InterCity ScotRail Super Deltic 4: Full-blown <i>INTERCITY</i> Swallow. *** Note to environmentalists, people who are unable to read captions, or people who haven't noticed the name of the site: THIS IS A DOCTORED IMAGE!!!!! ***<br><br>I did this one a while ago following a thread about how uninteresting Pendos and their ilk are due to lack of clag and thrash and all those massively important things.

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]]> Mon Jan 1 2007 03 Fictitious Liveries 2007 http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c1346004.html 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. Monday 1 January 2007: 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.

Nope, can't think of an excuse for this either. The 153 returns in GWR livery. Thank heavens for InterCity livery... If the DVTs had arrived before the dawn of InterCity livery, perhaps they'd be given the loco treatment. Well, looks like this isn't fictitious any more! DVT 82115 now bears this scheme, albeit with black window frames, and yes, they did get the idea from here! Or perhaps a straightforward carriage style... Or maybe with a bit of styling. Now that Arriva have won the Cross Country franchise from Virgin, here's a little glimpse of what their proposed livery (based on mock-ups shown on their website prior to launch) might look like on some traditional XC stock. (Update: now that the livery has started to be applied for real, XC have opted for a dark red instead of grey/black for the darker areas.) One for fans of Rats and McRats. 25 in Trainload Metals, and how the 27s might have looked if retained for Glasgow-Edinburgh push-pull runs (yes, I know it's a 26). Class 33 in Railfreight red-stripe livery. I'm not sure if this is actually fictitious (other than the TOPS number), but what the heck. InterCity Mainline 04, anyone? If Jaffa-Cake livery had spread more widely... Midland Main Line abandon units in favour of classic traction. A Stagecoach-liveried HST, developing the theme of what if Stagecoach had the 51% share in Virgin Trains. Another application of Cross Country's proposed new livery - what might have been if more of the XC network was electrified. (Update: now that the livery has started to be applied for real, XC have opted for a dark red instead of grey/black for the darker areas.) Voyages of Discovery 1... OK, so not something that immediately springs to mind with Voyagers. Voyages of Discovery 2... Plain old InterCity blue/grey on a Voyager. Voyages of Discovery 3... Voyager in IC Swallow livery. Voyages of Discovery 4... They must be good for something... Voyages of Discovery 5... Curiously this version of Stagecoach livery (with East Midlands Trains branding) on a Voyager. EMT Meridians now carry a 'more swirly' version of Stagecoach livery, obviously much better than my version. Just to see if it could be done - a scrap-line of NSE 31s, two in old-style and two in later-style.<br>By the way, for those wanting them ex-works, the condition of the locos in the original shot determines the condition of the locos in the relivery... Usually. Yep, Load Haul still looks good on just about anything... TransPennine Express luxury... A Pride of Lions: 1. First of five images depicting BRCW prototype 'Lion' sitting in the yard at Barrow Hill alongside a 37 and 73!<br><br>OK, not a fictitious livery, but an experiment to see if the BRCW prototype could be recreated from bits of a 47, 33, 20 and 83! A Pride of Lions: 2. A 1961 illustration by BRCW showed Lion wearing what looks like (in the B&W shot) two tone green. (It also showed the number D8500...) A Pride of Lions: 3. If, like the Brush 'Falcon', BR had taken Lion into capital stock, maybe it would have reached Rail Blue. (It would have probably had a different running number too.) A Pride of Lions: 4. If BRCW had built the Sulzer-engined Type 4s instead of Brush, maybe this would have been a familiar sight around the country. (Running number for illustrative purposes only.) A Pride of Lions: 5. Finally, Lion dressed up in full <i>INTERCITY</i> Swallow regalia, as might have been the case if the BRCW design had been perpetuated to a production run.<br><br>I'm outa here.. Preserved Class 49, 49008 'Thunderer' in BR Blue at Barrow Hill on 15th September 2007, undergoing engine repairs.<br><br>(Class 49 - one before 50 - geddit? DP2? Oh dear.) Here's the FP version! 49045 Well, it's an A2 in BR Blue. If, like the GWR and SR before it, BR had operated narrow gauge lines... Of course, whether Regional Railways would have kept the copper as shiny as the Heatherslaw chaps do is open to question. Can't think what provoked this one. Network Pacer! Created as a commission, the original for this image was taken by Allan Hedley - thanks to him for permission to reproduce here. Following on from the earlier DVT blue/grey images, a lot of people have suggested HST-style blue/yellow. Well, here it is: can anyone suggest a reason why this livery wouldn't be permitted on a DVT? Another narrow gauge fantasy... The WHR (reopened by BR in the 1970s), just as sectorisation is kicking in...

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]]> Mon Jan 1 2007 05 Fictitious Trains 2006 http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c1065086.html 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. Wednesday 1 March 2006: 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.

Here's what an electric version of the HST might have looked like. Headlights moved purely for curiosity's sake. Alternative Realities: an InterCity liveried production-series Gas Turbine APT (built 1974-75) awaits its fate following withdrawal in the late 1990s. An alternative Class 88 design - the AC modular loco, proposed at about the same time as BREL's modular diesel. Railfreight Distribution version of the AC Modular Loco. The UK's answer to TGV Duplex? 20,000hp and double-decker Mk3s departing Preston. Class 18 'Octogronk'. Avoid tight curves! Class 20 'Bone'. A lower powered alternative to the 58? Class 20 'Drone'. With the exception of the Class 13, there have been no master-slave / cow-calf units in the UK. Here's a what a cabless 20 slave unit might look like. Another master-and-slave combination. Another loco combination not seen in the UK is the double-loco. Here's a 56-based pairing in BR Blue. The same pair in Large Logo. If the Government and BR had persevered, we might have seen APT-S in service on the WCML. A subtle one this: Pendolino with decent sized windows! And no logo on the nose - I don't know why having one there bothers me, but it does. You can't tell, but it's actually been lowered on its suspension too... ... and here's the effect after dark. This image was created to help raise awareness of the AC Loco Group's appeal to save 89001 - fortunately it seems to have worked!

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]]> Wed Mar 1 2006 01 Latest Images http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c1065063.html 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. Wednesday 1 August 2007: 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.

As oneAnglia vanishes under the new National Express branding, here's a reworking of one of the first Fictitious Liveries I ever did - one livery on an 86. The original version (made for the first Anglia 86 farewell tour) can be seen in the 2004 gallery. It's faster than a 90... Well you never know... Stranger things have happened! Here's an image I made a little while ago. Here's one that came true. I created this mock-up of a Polish EP07 to assist with the repaint of a real EP07 for a special event. It was obviously convincing, as two magazines printed it as the real thing! The real loco, EP07-1051, can be seen in the inset photo by R. Boduszek. Well, it had to be done! Here's a modernised version Following the repaint of a Polish '83' into Electric Blue, here's what a British 83 might look like in PKP Regional's new livery. An alternative BR livery on a Polish '83'! DB blue 66 complete with new standard anti-spotter variable headlight. Overcrowding solution for peak-hour LM services? This is a really quick rendition of a 66 in DB red livery. So there. Since every reaction I've so far seen about the Bulgarian livery has included the word 'rancid' I wondered whether it might be the absence of something quintessentially British from the scheme. Does it look as bad now? One of the early suggestions for 87002's next livery... <p>Exclusively revealed in this mock-up, the livery and name for ACLG's newly preserved 87002.</p><p>We have been following the debate over which livery 87002 should be painted on many enthusiast forums, since this is by far the most important factor in saving the loco in the first place.</p><p>The following liveries have been ruled out as unacceptable by enthusiasts:</p><p>BR Blue (despite matching our 'irrelevant' and 'rancid' 86101 and the Cargo-D Mk3 rake with which it's likely to work) because there are too many blue electrics about (I can verify this is true - there are exactly two others on the main line); Porterbrook Purple is in mixed contention: some want it retained because they don't yet have a decent photo of it, some want it removed because it's purple; InterCity Executive is acceptable, but only if the Cargo-D rake is partially reliveried to make a typical mixed-livery set from the late 1980s; InterCity Swallow is favoured by many but only if the Cargo-D Mk3 set is completely repainted to match; Bulgarian Green/Yellow has been ruled out because it's rancid, even with yellow ends; Virgin is too recent; and Electric Blue can't be used because 86259 is already painted that colour (but not for any other more obvious reason).</p><p>ACLG's previous decision to paint 87002 Rail Blue and reinstate the Royal Sovereign nameplates received so many negative responses that a new livery has been devised to avoid any historical accuracy and simply provide a protective coating for the bodywork. The result is presented in the above mock-up, and I'm sure you'll agree, will go very well with any stock to which it's attached.</p><p>In case you can't make out the nameplate, it reads <i>The National Association of Livery Frothers and Impassioned Colour Scheme Opinion Formers</i> - the real plates are currently being cast by Newton Replicas.</p><p>* It's not too hard: ACLG = preservation group; ETL = ACLG's company used to run locos on the main line; ETS = the company overhauling the 87s for export.</p> Here's a 47 in plain Rail Blue - I'm taking the liberty of assuming that <i>some</i> nod to style would be given, and added some Rail Grey around the windows. Odd, isn't it? Thinking about how alien British locos look without yellow ends (recent debate on the Bulgarian 87 livery a case in point), I started to wonder what existing liveries would be like without them. Here's InterCity Executive with no yellow. How about a no-yellow Virgin HST... It's amazing what difference a yellow end makes. Perhaps this needs an FP window surround. Sorry - not a fictitious livery - a real, unaltered photo of 87002 as it was rolled out today, 6th June 2008. fGW on GWR. Had to be done... National Express East Coast look elsewhere for traction inspiration. Kozzy's superbly restored 26404 in ScotRail livery at Barrow Hill's 10th Anniversary Gala. More from Barrow Hill's 10th Anniversary Gala. Southern sent one of their express locos to the event. Close up of the Class 56 on display in faded Romanian livery at BH. The DRS Deltic... PLEASE - before anyone else comments that <i>gosh DRS have actually bought this loco in real life</i>, yes I know - that's why I made the image. 1300 views in the first 24 hours! Personally I prefer this! 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. Is this new-build loco the start of a fleet? Perhaps it's the reason why so few 91s have been repainted... InterCity Swallow on steam? The stripes run out of room. Hmm.

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]]> Wed Aug 1 2007 04 Fictitious Liveries 2006 Part 2 http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c1036570.html 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. Saturday 1 July 2006: 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.

9Fs in plain BR Blue - which they would undoubtedly have received if they had lived out their planned lifespan in traffic. This image appeared in The Railway Magazine (Jul 2006). 9Fs in Large Logo Blue. This version seems to work better than my previous attempt! A reworking of the 9Fs in Railfreight Red-Stripe livery. Original photo kindly provided by The Railway Magazine (first published in The Railway Magazine, Jul 2006). Another possible destination abroad for 87s is rumoured to be Bulgaria. Here's one in standard Bulgarian Railways Red. ... and in the Blue/Yellow livery applied to certain AC electrics in Bulgaria. In response to the enquiry below, the number is based on the Bulgarian system and is just the next available electric class number. I can't yet think of a scenario where this would ever have happened in reality, but who cares? Deltic in Northern Rail livery. For my sister - some proper traction! 86 in Northern Rail livery (one of them, anyway). One for Great Western fans... Incidentally the 0-6-0 diesel was already that colour, and the out-of-gauge guy on the furthest Prairie is a certain Mr Waterman. Pendolino in InterCity Swallow livery. This illustration apparently inspired the livery on the EuropeanBahn Train Sim model! For a while in the early 2000s there was talk of GNER buying a couple of Pendolinos... The yellow panel is deliberately at odds with the streamlining, in keeping with reserved styling of the rest of GNER's fleet. It's easy to forget that 49% of Virgin Trains was/is owned by Stagecoach (Virgin holding the other 51%). If the percentages had been the other way around... By popular demand, a 50 in Arriva livery... More proof, as if it were needed, that Loadhaul looks good on just about anything. An 89 in this case. I've read that the Northern 86s are to be used, Top 'n' Tail with ex-Anglia Mk2s, on a new Crewe-Preston stopper (Crewe; Winsford; Hartford; Acton Bridge; Warrington BQ; Earlestown; Newton-le-Willows; Wigan NW; Euxton; Leyland; Preston). It must be true because here's a shot of 86262 on the rear of the press-launch special, calling at the rebuilt Earlestown station. A diesel unit for a change: 153 in BR Blue/Grey. Revealed! The low-budget alternative to Nightstar, providing overnight travel to Europe from the Regions. Passengers at Blaenau Ffestiniog board the 17:23 to Paris. In Japan the Rebuilt West Country in South West Trains livery - not as easy or effective as on the streamlined Pacifics. White paint on a steam loco? Hmm. The whiter variation of the Northern Railways livery. The lilac version of the Northern Railways livery. Deltic-style two-tone green for this East Coast racehorse. Since it's cheaper and quicker to apply fictitious colour schemes in Photoshop, here are a few that the 89 won't be wearing! If BTC black and silver had persisted over the decades... I've always been partial to orange and black... I'm trying to image what circumstances might have caused this... A Thumper in InterCity Swallow. If LSE Southern Thumper

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]]> Sat Jul 1 2006 07 Fictitious Trains 2005 http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c928870.html 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. Saturday 1 January 2005: 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.

Thunderbird Deltic with 57-style modifications to nose end. As previous with Dellner coupling. This image featured in Rail Express (March 2005) and The Railway Magazine (April 2005). A 50 without the headcode box. Odd! (In case you're wondering, it's a Class 31 roof.) Split-box Deltic anyone?

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]]> Sat Jan 1 2005 Trams http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c908486.html 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. Thursday 1 January 1970: 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.

If Britain's tramways had been seen as part of the national rail network, perhaps Blackpool in the 1970s would have looked something like this! The Coronation Railcoaches were withdrawn in the 1970s - had they survived into the 1990s, they may well have received the final green and cream Blackpool Transport livery. Into the 2000s, a Coronation in modern route-specific colours. Extending the BR theme a bit further... Coronation in Regional Railways livery.

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]]> Thu Jan 1 1970 06 Fictitious Liveries 2006 Part 1 http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c857346.html 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. Sunday 1 January 2006: 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.

How the Prototype HST power cars might have looked in the livery of the Production sets. Another livery that was but a signature away from happening: InterCity Main Line on Class 85. Railfreight grey 86 without the stripe. Another common livery never seen on an AC (except for 82008 in preservation) - large logo blue. 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. Loadhaul Class 15, 15033, looking a little the worse for wear after a long and arduous career... Coal sector 73 A different take on Mail by Rail. 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. 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. 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). Faded Research Division Class 15. More glamorous than train heating, anyway! Red-Stripe Railfreight Clayton. And why not? 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. Sarah Siddons as she might have looked under different ownership. 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. 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 Traditionalists might prefer (or not!) a more Class 58 in plain BR Blue. 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. 9F in Railfreight Grey - almost suits it! Another rendition of 9Fs in grey can be found in a later gallery. In the interests of fairness, here's how an HST might look under LNER ownership. Did this combination ever happen in real life? Loadhaul 58. First spotted lurking behind the Loadhaul Bone - Network Rail Old Measurement Train Deltic! 73 in the new Merseyrail livery. APT-P in LMS red. By popular demand, A4s in GNER livery. Not quite as imposing as the Virgin scheme. CO/CP stock in the current Underground livery. 92s in the new Fastline Freight livery. 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. In the 1980s there was a vision of APTs heading for Paris via the Channel Tunnel... The Metropolitan always considered itself a Main Line company. Met Bo-Bo in InterCity Swallow livery. 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. An 86 modelling red-stripe railfreight - strangely never applied to any ACs in service. Would 56s have made good passenger locos? That would depend on whether InterCity livery suited them. There are a lot of 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. 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. InterCity 40; a bit faded. The dutch 40 has appeared here before, but here's a better view of it. An update of the First Barbie Nightclub Western, using the finalised livery design. Rumours that two 87s might receive Royal Mail livery prompted this illustration. 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).

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]]> Sun Jan 1 2006 08 Fictitious Liveries 2005 http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c581688.html 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. Thursday 16 June 2005: 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.

56136 (first of the 2nd Romanian batch...!) in early NSE 56137 in Wessex Pink. Hmm. What if the Ilford 306 had received NSE? 306 in If only the 84s had been more reliable... This and the following images show the variations on InterCity livery as applied to 86s and 87s. This is the original style InterCity Executive. After only two or three locos had received the original InterCity Executive, it was revised with a full wrap-around grey band, and repositioned nameplates. InterCity Executive was further amended with the return to a full yellow panel below the cab windows. After Sectorisation, InterCity Executive was replaced by InterCity Mainline and InterCity Swallow - this is Mainline. InterCity Swallow livery - most Mainline locos eventually received Swallow. This is an interpretation of the InterCity Swallow livery applied to Class 90s and 91s. What might have followed privatisation, if the 84s had been around that long! 66-style GBRf 87 73-style GBRf 87 89 in electric blue - just for fun. If the 90s had come along a little earlier... 90 in Large Logo Transpennine Express - Peak Style 90 in Anglia Blue - what might have been if NE hadn't won the franchise. If First had won the Anglia franchise, perhaps this is what we'd be seeing today. Blue Shed Large Logo Shed Coal Shed HST - large logo style Class 43 in 442-esque NSE livery Gritty RfD HST! SWT HST ... ? If only the naming of an HST power car to commemorate the 50th anniversary of 'DELTIC' could have been accompanied by some imaginative re-liverying! On the blue theme, here's an HST power car in Nanking Blue (Blue Pullman) livery. Well, the HST concept did spring at least partly from the 1950s units. (Incidentally, this image was created before the recent relaunch of the Blue Pullman brand - good timing!) Just curious to see a 90 in revised NSE (can't bear the thought of the clash between the angles of early NSE and the 90's front end...) APT-P in reversed BR Blue/Grey (as on HST prototype, and similar to APT-E). Thanks to Andy Appleton for use of his original APT photo: aa-rail-pics.fotopic.net An early APT-P concept display model wore this livery. If the APTs had moved to the ECML (and not been scrapped...) APT-P in Virgin's APT-P in ScotRail variety on a pair of 37/4s. The Northampton Cobblers were never like this... Production HST in the livery of the prototype HST 47s have carried just about every livery going, but here's one that might have happened had history been slightly different.

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]]> Thu Jun 16 2005 Real Applications http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c581633.html 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. Thursday 1 January 1970: 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.

With the basic Produced to illustrate the HNRC website before any 37s had been repainted, this mock-up proved to be nearly correct. No credit is claimed for the original Porterbrook livery on 87002, however this and other mock-ups were produced to show the revised livery necessary to accommodate the nameplates. Yep, here's one of several dozen mockups created to establish a livery for the exported 87s. This had to be based around the BRC corporate colours of green and yellow - not the easiest to work with. Still. There you go.

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]]> Thu Jan 1 1970 09 Fictitious Liveries 2004 http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/c580818.html 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. Thursday 28 October 2004: 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.

An old proposal for HNRC liveried 66 Made for the Anglia 86 Farewell tour in October 2004. 50 in Intercity Executive - an early attempt at relivery-ing Variation on the InterCity 50 - ScotRail Where it all started in early 2005: a request for a Deltic in Large Logo blue! Deltic in Virgin's Deltic in GNER livery with small warning panel (deliberately not following the original lines) Deltic in GNER again, but with full warning. Deltic in unbranded InterCity Mainline Deltic in Virgin Peak in MML teal and tangerine. This image featured in the Railway Magazine March 2005 issue. An alternative to the two-tone green worn by D444 Two tone green with a grey roof 84 in Channel Tunnel 85 in Silverlink County colours Peak in plain Intercity 89 in Large Logo 87 in MML teal and tangerine. 87 in one Anglia 87 in GW-style green. NSE 37. Prototype Deltic in BR Blue. This image has featured in Rail Express. Prototype Deltic in two-tone green. As previous with small warning panel. 76 in Red Stripe Railfreight triple grey. With thanks to John Turner (www.bluediesels.co.uk) for permission to use the base image. 76 in Coal Sector triple grey. With thanks to John Turner (www.bluediesels.co.uk) for permission to use the base image. Dutch 40 (Not the best picture in the world...) Peak in Provincial Peak in Regional Railways 92s in Freightliner green, Intercity Swallow, Virgin Thunderbird... Apparently some members of a certain Preservation Society requested this! A line up of 92s in Large Logo Blue Deltic in BTC Black and Silver As previous, but with silver roof 83 in BTC Black and Silver - nice! Western in BTC Black and Silver Western in <i>INTERCITY</i> Swallow livery 87 in Bosnian Railways livery. This image appeared in The Railway Magazine (May 2005). Western in FGW 47-style green Western in FGW 'fag packet' green Single-cabbed Western in early FGW HST 'Barbie' colours 60 in Large Logo blue Western in early NSE A different take on 87019's LNWR black. 87 in Virgin When BR first planned BR blue for the Deltics, the designer suggested a blue and grey scheme in place of plain blue. Deltic in blue-grey with full yellow end. Deltic in blue grey with Finsbury Park window surrounds. Another proposed treatment for the yellow end on two-tone green. Western in FGW psychedelic HST-refurbishment livery. This is the early version of the livery, as applied to two Mk3 coaches for demonstration purposes. An updated version can now be seen in the 2006 gallery.

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