National Express East Coast Speculation

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Anyone have an image of the tacky trains with crap logos on them

[JamieLei]

FFS, why waste public money on rebranding? Again.

To be fair, it's a pretty minimal job. Just like with South Eastern Trains where tehy just continued with the pasting over of the NSE toothpaste-livery in Connex colours. Although looking back, it seems as if South Eastern Trains did more rebranding than Southeastern have done!!

[Kevo00]

I thought Go-Ahead Southeastern or whatever they're called had pretty much just kept the same branding as the government one?

[JamieLei]

I thought Go-Ahead Southeastern or whatever they're called had pretty much just kept the same branding as the government one?

The government livery was actually the Connex 2nd livery which came with the "brand new" 375/6s. By the time they'd taken on the franchise, the entire fleet had been coloured a nice simple yellow and white. The SouthEastern livery is actually:



(Coaches 5-8 in the video)


and of course:



It's odd that they've re-liveried so few trains, whereas Southern was quickly and unanimously re-liveried.