(17 Mar 2016, 4:50 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote 156484 is the S&C Branded 156 and it looked a bit scruffy the last time I seen it.
It seems to be last in the queue for Refurb, Most Heaton 156s have been done I believe.
(24 Mar 2016, 8:42 am)Michael wrote Seems to be a lot of police around today...
Two were at Sunderland station and theres also one on the Northern train which left Sunderland at 8:30am for Newcastle.
Anyone know why?
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(30 Mar 2016, 9:12 am)NK53 TKT wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_(...g_company)
The livery is near the top of the page
(30 Mar 2016, 12:12 pm)GX03 SVC wrote That's not the new livery. The new logo is present but the train pictured has carried that livery for a few years now!
(30 Mar 2016, 3:39 pm)northern156 wrote ^ what Tommy said.
I don't think there'll be a new livery any time soon especially seeing as it'd have to be applied to everything they have.
On the new-build units, yeah I imagine they'll have some snazzy livery.
(30 Mar 2016, 4:31 pm)Andreos1 wrote One thing I have noticed over the last few weeks is a white sticker that is placed on any Northern signage on the train, such as posters.
Email addresses aren't covered.
The white stickers have also appeared at Northern managed stations.
Local tpe logos such as the West Yorks Metro and Tees Valley remain.
(30 Mar 2016, 9:08 am)8222 wrote Good morning all,
I was wondering if anyone knows if there's going to be a new livery for the new Northern franchise? If so, does anyone know if they have a unit under wraps waiting to be unveiled?
(30 Mar 2016, 4:57 pm)TEN 6083 wrote https://flic.kr/p/FnUtn3
Might be similar to this one that's operating in Yorkshire
(30 Mar 2016, 4:31 pm)Andreos1 wrote One thing I have noticed over the last few weeks is a white sticker that is placed on any Northern signage on the train, such as posters.
Email addresses aren't covered.
The white stickers have also appeared at Northern managed stations.
Local tpe logos such as the West Yorks Metro and Tees Valley remain.
(30 Mar 2016, 4:36 pm)Andreos1 wrote And new literature too I would hope!
(30 Mar 2016, 4:56 pm)northern156 wrote In what sense?
(30 Mar 2016, 5:20 pm)Adrian wrote It's a difficult one. Companies obviously use their own FQDN for email addressing, and you wouldn't expect anything less. The incoming franchisee isn't providing customer services until the start of the contract, and the incumbent is expected to provide it until the end. Customers need to know where to write to. I'd imagine their customer services email address with the northernrail.org FQDN would be forwarded to the new address, for a set period of time.
I'd hope new timetables and such will be printed for the start of the franchise. You can't stick a little white sticker over every single timetable, so they've not much choice really. I can't recall whether Virgin had theirs ready for the ECML on day 1 or not?
(31 Mar 2016, 2:54 pm)tyresmoke wrote Pretty much guaranteed that a new livery will be introduced but only on new and refurbished units... So basically the current fleet will gain it as they go through the major refurbishment so that they meet the spec for the new franchise (none of the units do as things stand at day one...!). The new units will be delivered in the new livery obviously. I'm intrigued to see what it will look like, but don't forget they have the Northern Connect brand for longer distance services also.