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« on: September 18, 2013, 17:01:43 »
Thanks to one of our members posting on Facebook to remind me of the Fictitious Liveries site.    This looks really smart ... and is perhaps a reminder of how things might have been had branch lines to small towns with populations of perhaps 5000 or 6000 been retained.

http://www.fictitiousliveries.co.uk/photo.php?dmu153_gwr.jpg

Oh ... that is on a just such a branch  Grin
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« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2013, 17:38:56 »
First Devon and Cornwall currently have TT03TRU in GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) livery.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3688/9528885893_63a612a5df_z.jpg

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« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2013, 19:00:28 »
What about these two? All kinds of hideous.

http://www.fictitiousliveries.co.uk/photo.php?S4566_fGW.jpg
http://www.fictitiousliveries.co.uk/photo.php?S_GW_Neon.jpg
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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2013, 20:39:15 »
I think Westerns would have looked kool in the FGW▸ (First Great Western) 180 livery http://www.fictitiousliveries.co.uk/photo.php?52075gw3.jpg
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2013, 21:59:18 »
Not sure about that one ET. Nor the removal of the 'B' end cab.

Wessies look their best in all over maroon. Followed by the golden ochre that was used on D1015 Western Champion for the first couple of years of its life.

This is a little better for a Wessie, I think:

http://www.fictitiousliveries.co.uk/photo.php?52075gw1.jpg
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