TransPennine Express

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RE: TransPennine Express

(29/05/2016 06:50)wirralbus Wrote:  I think the livery will look better over time when more of the units are given it , it always looks a little odd when companies are in between liveries , some people have said it resembles a cigarette packet , but it is something different that's all to what we are used to .

The problem as I see it is how mismatched the colours are. The grey bodysides are perfectly acceptable, but they are spoiled by the amateurish blue and purple sections. These look bad enough at the set ends, but on the trailer car, where they are not offset with the dark grey bands, they look ridiculous. I actually think it's quite an embarrassing final livery they've come up with; the FirstGroup livery is vastly superior.

Can't see the cigarette packet resemblance at all. Remember the old First Great Western livery that was known as 'fag packet'? That was excellent.