CathcartCircle Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Saw this yesterday and was wondering what you think of changing a livery to advertise something! I personally don't like it apart from East Coast's 91110. I admit it is certainly different and quite striking but I would hate to see this sort of thing becoming more widespread! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I think so long as the ratio of advertising units compared to regular units remains very low* then I don't have a problem. Variety is the spice, life's rich tapestry and all that.... Plus in a pretty short time the advertising vinyls will come back off, it'll go back to being just another everyday Pendo, and you'll never know it existed except for the photo record. I do have a personal preference for them trying to design the advert to fit with the existing livery, which IMHO this one does pretty well, rather than just plonking a gurt billboard on the side irrespective of what the train looks like - see FGW's Hewlett Packard HST power cars for an example! (*And I think there's good reasons why that won't change) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted April 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10, 2014 Some of the advertising one look really rubbish, this one's not that bad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astockfan101 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 That pendo looks like it's maybe going to go cross country! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLD Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 The overall advert has been a feature of buses and trams for a long time. The surprise it that it took so long to spread to the commercialised railway... In the last year's before the upgrade of the Blackpool Tramway, fleet liveried examples were in the minority... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerr Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Saw this yesterday and was wondering what you think of changing a livery to advertise something! I personally don't like it apart from East Coast's 91110. I admit it is certainly different and quite striking but I would hate to see this sort of thing becoming more widespread! Where have you been hiding, as there have been loads of adverts on trains for the last few years now In some respects it hasn't really worked as some TOC had hoped, remember the Visit Scotland or newspaper adverts as applied by ScotRail Virgin Trains have teamed up with advertising agencies in such a way that the adverts are not actual brands The only exception have been their internal contract based adverts, which most passenges probably won't understand (I showed a relative one of these) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted April 11, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 11, 2014 How about this from the 80s? slide380.jpg A classic example, another would be the "POLICE" class 47 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Doesn't just happen in the UK of course. Perhaps this is where the idea came from for the Thameslink Programme livery on 319364 and 365!: https://flic.kr/p/a2rfMJ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 And before there were vinyls, there was wallpaper.. Does anyone else remember the wallpapered Black 5 that featured in a Solvite advert about thirty years ago? With vinyls, a vehicle can be done overnight, provided it's been prepped earlier to remove surface dirt and grease. We've even had some buildings wrapped.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 And before there was wallpaper... How about this: GNR No116 in 1903. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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