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First Great British Railway branded train unveiled in Brighton (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 day ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think the primary colours are a bit much for the entire train, but the design is good other than that. The double arrow has always been a great logo. I will miss the muted colours of greater Anglia and GWR trains though, when they go over.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

They won’t be re-wrapped for a long time. The plan is to keep them in current colours for ~~cheapness~~ “regional differentiation”

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

GWR is really historic. Shame to see the colour scheme go

[–] the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Imo, the new livery looks better than I thought it would.

[–] elgordino@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Good job only spending 30k on the design rather than farming it out to an agency for £££

I was a bit sceptical about the renders, but I think it looks way nicer on a train

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It looks a bit Brexity, but hopefully that’ll goo away when they change the livery in a decade’s time or so

[–] makingrain@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

So tiresome.

[–] PenguinOfWar@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Beautiful. You love to see it.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Any relation to the similarly named Bake Off?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“Great British” when it doesn’t cover Wales or Scotland. Hmm. Flag shagging has well and truly arrived.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

A relatively small part of England around London is the only part of the UK that the 'UK' ever really cared about.

[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or Liverpool funnily enough, they get to keep Merseyrail

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

Merseyrail isn’t part of the national network anyway, as a metro system.