Fictitious Liveries
Found a fascinating website the other day called Fictitious Liveries which is run by a very talented photoshopper who’s into his trains and likes to imagine how certain rail vehicles might look in various parallel universes. Of particular note:
- If British Rail blue and grey had survived to the present day
- If Stagecoach owned 51% of Virgin Trains instead of 49% (Pendolino version)
- If the southern railway was never electrified
- If the Advanced Passenger Train was actually finished and then seconded to Eurostar duties
- If Virgin launched a double decker train like those seen in other countries
- First Great Western get desperate about their overcrowding problems and their new fleet of locomotives
- Westwood, Pimp my train!
Ironically enough, Stagecoach have won the franchise to run the former Midland Mainline and parts of the former Central Trains franchise from November, which they will operate under the brand East Midlands Trains, with branding very similar to that of their existing South West Trains franchise. Although they don’t get any Pendolinos with that franchise, the Pendolino mockup is startling accurate when compared to their own mockup of how their Class 222s will look. They’ll also get some HSTs, so it’ll be interesting to see how similar they’ll look to the HST mockup.
