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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: tgv_obsessed on May 13, 2012, 01:07:42 AM

Title: the language of livery
Post by: tgv_obsessed on May 13, 2012, 01:07:42 AM
have just been admiring Tank's squirts of aquafresh on another thread, and it got me chuckling about we use our language- Toothpaste, Fag Packet, Blood and Custard

Are there more choice livery nicknames? Ok there's Barbie, but I mean nicknames like the ones I mentioned that would probably cheese off the designers.

mods can put this in the happy thread if they want to- because it makes me happy.
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: Mustermark on May 13, 2012, 01:39:28 AM
Isn't the design name for the Barbie livery 'Dynamic Lines'. Or is Barbie something else?
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: longbridge on May 13, 2012, 02:35:35 AM
Cant speak for back home but in Melbourne where I grew up in the 1960s the suburban trains were called "Red Rattlers".
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: 1936ace on May 13, 2012, 03:55:50 AM
Same here in new, we had red rattlers with reference to the electric suburban sets and u boats referring to the silver inter urban sets
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: kaiwhara on May 13, 2012, 06:20:25 AM
I thought Dynamic Lines was what they use now as their corperate colours?

Quote from: Mustermark on May 13, 2012, 01:39:28 AM
Isn't the design name for the Barbie livery 'Dynamic Lines'. Or is Barbie something else?
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: Pengi on May 13, 2012, 06:23:32 AM
SWT Wessex electrics (442) were known as 'Piggies' but this may be because they used plastics
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: Mustermark on May 13, 2012, 08:07:54 AM
Quote from: kaiwhara on May 13, 2012, 06:20:25 AM
I thought Dynamic Lines was what they use now as their corperate colours?

Quote from: Mustermark on May 13, 2012, 01:39:28 AM
Isn't the design name for the Barbie livery 'Dynamic Lines'. Or is Barbie something else?

Yes, that is correct. Dynamic lines is the current livery that i think is also known as neon.

So, Wiki says Barbie is the first livery with the purple with the single big pink swoop that preceded the dynamic lines.
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: Greybeema on May 13, 2012, 08:55:17 AM
I don't even know what the proper name is for the Kent Coast EMU's livery that we knew as "Jaffa Cake" but it was on refurbished CEP's - BACHMANN get your paint set out....

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Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: Tank on May 13, 2012, 12:49:15 PM
Quote from: Greybeema on May 13, 2012, 08:55:17 AM
I don't even know what the proper name is for the Kent Coast EMU's livery that we knew as "Jaffa Cake"

London & South Eastern livery.  (http://forums.colts.com/public/style_emoticons/default/vomit.gif)      :smiley-laughing:
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: tgv_obsessed on May 13, 2012, 01:10:35 PM
i rather like the jaffa cake livery- a sort of muted nurofen plus version of toothpaste
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: Tank on May 13, 2012, 01:15:00 PM
I like to see the odd unit, but a whole fleet of the dull colours would send me into depression!!!!  God bless Chris Green for brightening up the railways with such a bright livery.  ;)
Title: Re: the language of livery
Post by: Agrippa on May 14, 2012, 11:27:49 AM
Years ago the North Clyde EMUs were called the blue trains
... because they were (you've guessed it) blue trains.

PS the Glasgow subway (world's smallest and third oldest )
is not called the clockwork orange as frequently referred to
as such by the media, it is simply called the subway.