Timelapse: Rebranding our Class 185 Trains
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2017
- Watch one of our Class 185 trains get a makeover, as our team of engineers add new metallic silver vinyl featuring the North Star. This design and rebrand work is all part of our pledge to ‘Take the North Further’.
The new vinyl is being applied to 51 trains in total with the work taking place in the North of England at the Siemens Train Care Facility in Ardwick, Manchester.
More than 17 miles of film will be used to cover the entire train fleet with around 180sqm being applied to each individual train, roughly the same size as a four-bed detached house.
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SOOOOOO glad you kept the yellow cab ends.
Historically it was a legal requirement. It's likely because the class 185 doesn't have the correct headlamps to be visible enough without them.
@@GeorgeBot7 I've always wondered why most British trains are yellow on the front
I really just love the 185! Regardless of the colour
Great video! I like watching rebrandings. They are cool!
Same
John Harkin agreed
Same these are my favret trains in the world
This is really interesting
The old livery doesn't stand out on the class 185 but on the class 350, it does!
A late comment, but I prefer the old dynamic lines livery.
I don't this looks a lot better the the old one
the new one is the better one
I agree I like the old one
I actually like bpth
Old one is better than new one
This is a great video, will be interesting to see what happens when franchises are no longer
You should pull and SWR and keep a few of the old ones
Old first group livery hits hard
I Like this video. in my opinion. I Loved the old 185's when i was younger but the newest design is pretty good, Good job!
My fav diesel train and company transpenine and avanti
I love it And Class 185 DMU Desidro
These are my favourite trains in the world
I LOVE TRANSPENNINE EXPRESS BUT I LIVE IN NOTTINGHAM SO I DON'T SEE THEM OFTEN 🤩😭
As much as the new livery looks cool, I prefer the gradients and the lines of the old livery
I find this video very interesting.
Awesome love the new look!
I loved the old livery more I loved it so much I wish it was still that one now
WOW
cool
I love ❤️❤️❤️ the new look !! It fits in at hull!
nice music
0:16 it looks like a 360 because of the blue!
It does
These trains kinda do resemble a class 360
They basically are 360s but diesel and 3 car instead of 4 or 5 car.
Looking back at this comment now, wow I was dumb back then
(First) trans pennie experss I love your new livery it stands out at leeds york scarbough and Manchester. (First) trans pennie express u did a gerat job at doing it. Thanks alot nightbuses56
Oh and I fogot your new nova class 800 are amazing I like the livary it stands out more on high speed. I herd that (first) tras pennie express nova trains will be running to London kings cross . (First) tras pennie express u are amazing company I hope u make a profit and keep markeing new trains . And I herd that the new nova 3 trains might be comeing to Leeds . U are amazing fleet I wish I could join into your fleet 😊. I love traveling across the pennies I love the train when it goes up and down on the tracks . I love the class 185 and class 800 . I hope u keep on time every time I don't mind if u have a problem with one of the trains I still be at leeds to be seeing your amazing trains thanks alot nightbuses56
(First) transpennie express your amazing trains are smart / clever / social / kind / helpful and nice. Your train class 185s are so cute that I want to hug one.
Every night I dream about your amazing trains on roads. I know what you gonna say (stop beening silly trains can't go on roads ) but I'm going on one today to Scarborough for a holiday I wish your trains could come to primrose valley but I know no trains can't drive on roads . I want to get a train at dawlish in Exeter but I like your trains I wish your classes 185s could come all the way form leeds to Exeter . Right now every day I keep going on eBay to see if u got the class 185 model. I ❤💙💚💛💜 trains so much that I keep asking my mum to get me a model railway but she keeps saying no. Every day I keep saying the same thing . But I love your trains. Right now every time when I go to Leeds train station I keep asking your drivers if I can help u do the anoncements where the people of passengers don't get lost on the train. I wish I could join your gruop (first) transpennie express you are amazing company. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 have fun time from your amazing fan nightbuses56
@@westyorkshirebusesfirstlee5776 The Novas are 397s and the 800s are IETs which run to Kings Cross and Trans Pennine Express don't run services to London. Have a good day:)
@@1BarnetTE. That’s wrong. Nova 1 - Class 802, Nova 2 - Class 397 and Nova 3 - Class 68+MK5s
Technically the IET is just a GWR brand much like Azuma for LNER, Paragon for Hull Trains, Nova 1 for TPE and Aurora for EMR. I think what you’re looking for is AT300
the new livery looks way better
Dynamic livery looks like First Great Western
Years on and I still prefer the old dynamic lines livery
I think they should be called Desiro turbo
I miss the old one.
Although the new one looks fancy and great.
51 Class 185 DMU Trains
But good job
Make that train a new Heathrow express please
Hmmmm am not too sure about the new one well I do like the new one but I like the old the same way so I don’t know 🤔
I prefer this over the older one; it fits your new stock too
Dont get too comfy, one day you'll be nationalised again
I prefer the FGW Livery
Make the horns on the 185s quieter as they are sooooo loud
I prefer the new livery but I like the old one
sad to see the rainbows go can you keep 1 rainbow Please :-(
TheMadTrainSpotter they’re still on Hull Trains though
In fact it is permanent on Hull Trains, as they have just released images of their planned 802 fleet with rainbow livery
I think transpennie express trains are better then others👍
I love trans pennie express
Yes GWR lost it then now TP Express lost it
Will you put the number on the front end on all your units please? :^)
How many 185s have they left to revinyl now
Tpexpress do you know how long it would take on a hst
Ok
Wonder how long it would take for a HST, lol.
The old livery was so much better. Not even sure what the current livery is meant to be.
Tfw you disable the ratings so you can't get passenger feedback lul
Will you be keeping 51 Class 185s. Or will some be kept and the rest to be cascaded elsewhere such as Northern, Transport for Wales, East Midlands Railway or Crosscountry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_185
They’re going to keep 36 with 15 being sent off lease, but this has been postponed to December. There are rumours that they could be sent to EMR to be used for the Liverpool-Nottingham service
@@rabd9881 Ok. Perhaps Northern should have the 15 Class 185s.
Will this make them run faster, keep time better, or be more comfortable?
The internal refurbishment will have made them more comfortable. They can't run faster as they are legally limited to 100mph, and timekeeping is usually problematic due to infrastructure, which is outside of TPE's control
How much did you pay the two year old who designed that ?
Better than the 6 month old who designed the previous one
@@agent_605 shut up I prefer it
Yeah i liked the old lines better
have you done all of them 😊
Well they've started doing 350s, I saw one on the WCML whilst driving along the M6 in the new livery. I would imagine that they've now done all the 185s so have moved onto the 350s, which are obviously a smaller fleet so will take less time
Alasdair Clift I been one to hull and it was in the old livery ☺ may be not class 185 ☺
It depends where you came from. If from London, it would be a Hull trains unit, which are 180s. If you came on a 185, it could have either been a few weeks ago since they have only just started the 350s (I believe two have been done, 350401 and 350407, but not sure) Sometimes companies overlap the different rolling stock, for example VTEC repainted their first HST in June 2015, when there were still a few grey 91s going about
Alasdair Clift well I went on a class 185 to hull from leeds and it was in the old livery 😆
mad about bus 1066 there are some left, I recently went up to York and the 185 was in the FTPE livery
Keeping you late or cancelled for the next generation.
Lol
Igc
If rail franchises spent less of their budget on overly complex liveries, they'd have more to spend on seating.....and actually endeavouring to provide comfortable and durable seats in their trains. Instead they have to skimp on seating and end up installing rigid 'ironing board' seats in all their trains.
You won't find seats like this on any train in mainland Europe. Because they wouldn't allow such seats.
Funny how as a nation we still haven't got that the customer should ALWAYS be the priority. ALWAYS!!! NOT the shareholders.
Rail franchises: keep the liveries very simple, don't be clever and try and overcomplicate them. If you did this, then you'd have more money to spend on seating..... quality, ergonomic seating. Because this is what REALLY matters to customers - not super snazzy liveries. The seating is the ONE thing that is essential to get right. It's more important than anything else.
Music?
SB988 2018 close my mouth silent partner
Better than the old livery. The lines where TRASH
Ohh so that’s what happened to first TransPennine express
Can you at least bring back the 170s
The old blue looked better imo.
Old livery is far better.
TheSharkLord I love your vids
Krnfx 234 he doesn’t have any?
I would love to know how much this is unnecessary rebranding will cost, as it's money that could be spent improving frontline services for passengers. It's still a First franchise so there's no need to change it.
It's because that before it was a First/Keolis partnership and now it is fully First so they want to change their brand. They're doing this across all their franchises, look at GWR for example
That doesn't make much sense though, it's going from partly owned by First, to fully owned, so they're using *less* First branding? Surely it'd be the other way around.
Daniel James No, ever since the major issues on FGW with overcrowding and strikes 10 years ago ( a bit like Southern), whenever the franchise has changed they’ve started to remove their brand for a more unique image. I like it since it’s better than just seeing purple everywhere, this time you see some variety. They first did it with FGW at the end of 2015, when it became GWR, then Transpennine in April 2016, and when they take over South West Trains later this issue, there’s rumour going round that it may be LSWR, rather than First branded
That's what I wanted to say also, Martin. I bet the customers wouldn't care if all trains were painted in cheapest primer grey as long as that money was either saved as lower fares or service improvement.
I can tell ye this, this way of 'repainting' is alot cheaper than actual paint and much more durable....
Scr
Overweight and overpowered, unable to use Sprinter line speeds, significant increase in fuel supply compared to Class 158 units and they also lose two seats per coach due to Siemens designing the exhaust to take up part of the interior space. Not a good unit and one that will be hard to cascade as they get older. Back in 2004\2005 Class 170 units would have been far better as an order than these non-standard heavy units.