Britain's Changing Train Liveries

Four Decades of Change

David Goodyear

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Transport
• eBook ISBN:
  9781399066327
• Year: 2023

Railway liveries play an important role in establishing much-valued recognition of the many operating companies through the variety of colors worn by their trains which ply our British railways. These reinforce the pride that their "uniform" bestows. This is demonstrated by the immaculate designs which adorned the Pre-grouping steam locomotives through to the stamp of Network South East which certainly raised the profile of many ordinary commuter trains, at least around London and the Home Counties. Similarly, it is a quality which is especially evident in the ubiquitous all-pervading British Railways blue era, which now features as an essential ingredient in diesel preservation, as also in a multitude of colors and futuristic designs bestowed by the contemporary privatized passenger and freight companies. Furthermore, consider the appeal of "retro" liveries which decorate some of the locomotives hauling charter trains, a trend which reinforces the popularity of liveries which were once merely part of the mundane everyday scene. Any glimpse through the news reviews and photographs published in monthly railway magazines will reveal such a kaleidoscope of colors adorning the locomotives and rolling stock which traverse the UK's modern and preserved railways. This book endeavors to facilitate a brief overview of some of these liveries in the hope that it will whet the readers' appetite to explore their own world of railway liveries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• FOREWORD
• ANGLIA
• ARC
• ARRIVA
• AVANTI WEST COAST
• BLUEBELL BLUE
• BLUEBELL BLACK
• BR BLACK
• BR LINED BLUE
• BR BLUE
• BR BLUE LARGE LOGO
• BR BLUE AND GREY
• BR GOLDEN OCHRE
• BR GREEN
• BR LONDON AND SOUTH EASTERN ‘JAFFA- CAKE’
• BR MAROON
• BR PROVINCIAL LIGHT BLUE
• BR RAILFREIGHT DISTRIBUTION
• BR RAILFREIGHT RED STRIPE LARGE LOGO GREY
• BR TRAINLOAD FREIGHT COAL
• BR TRAINLOAD FREIGHT CONSTRUCTION
• BRITISH STEEL BLUE
• CALEDONIAN SLEEPER
• CENTRAL TRAINS
• CHILTERN TRAINS
• CIVIL ENGINEERS
• COLAS RAIL
• CROSSCOUNTRY
• DB CARGO UK
• DEPARTMENTAL: DM&EE MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
• DEPARTMENTAL SANDITE AND DE-ICING
• DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY
• DIRECT RAIL SERVICES
• EAST COAST TRAINS
• EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY
• EWS ENGLISH, WELSH & SCOTTISH RAILWAY
• FIRST GREAT WESTERN
• FOSTER YEOMAN AND HANSON
• FREIGHTLINER
• GATWICK EXPRESS
• GB RAILFREIGHT
• GNER (GREAT NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY)
• GREAT WESTERN
• GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
• GREAT WESTERN TRAINS
• HEATHROW EXPRESS
• HIGHLAND RAILWAY
• HUNSLET-BARCLAY
• INTERCITY
• INDUSTRIAL
• LAMBTON, HETTON & JOICEY COLLIERY COMPANY (LH&JC)
• LOADHAUL
• LONDON, BRIGHTON AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY (LBSCR)
• LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH (LMS) MAROON
• LONDON NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY
• LONDON OVERGROUND
• LONDON TRANSPORT (LT)/TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TFL)
• MAINLINE BLUE
• MIDLAND MAINLINE
• MIDLAND PULLMAN
• NATIONAL EXPRESS
• NEW MEASUREMENT TRAIN (NMT)
• NETWORK SOUTHEAST
• NORTHERN RAIL
• PARCELS
• PULLMAN
• REGIONAL RAILWAYS
• RAIL OPERATIONS GROUP (ROG)
• SCOTRAIL
• SILVERLINK
• SOMERSET AND DORSET JOINT RAILWAY
• SOUTHERN
• SOUTHERN RAILWAY (SR)
• SOUTH EASTERN AND CHATHAM RAILWAY
• SOUTHEASTERN
• SOUTH WEST TRAINS AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY
• STRATHCLYDE PTE
• TRANSPORT FOR WALES
• TRANSPENNINE EXPRESS
• TRANSRAIL FREIGHT
• USA RIO GRANDE AND UNION PACIFIC, MINIATURE
• VIRGIN TRAINS
• WEST MIDLANDS RAILWAY
• WEST YORKSHIRE PTE
• WELSH HIGHLAND RAILWAY
• FINALE
• BIBLIOGRAPHY