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Has anyone made a fictional Northern Rail livery for the Class 319?

There is another post somewhere on these forums, where a member was doing just that. However because of the one sided texture mapping of the 319 a child texture object would be required . I'm not sure if the problem was solved ?

Any way, by the time Northern get their 319s they may have changed their livery or the franchise !

The first Northern 319 is on Allerton depot and the franchise has just under two years so they might repaint it

749006 wrote:The first Northern 319 is on Allerton depot and the franchise has just under two years so they might repaint it

It's Northern, it won't be a repaint it will just be a rewrap and put gaffer tape over any rust holes...

I doubt it , the DFT doesn't want money spent on them until the next franchise. I think they'll just put "Northern" branding on them.

First Class 319s for Northern will start to take their place in some North West diagrams from May 2015 - they will run in existing section running time slots for the DMUs they replace at this time. It is currently unclear if they will just randomly appear on a DMU diagram one day, and not the next instead of using sufficient units to take over a specific service sector.

This is all dependent of course on whether FCC get their new units too.

Get ready for Class 168/3s out of Marylebone too - re-classified Class 170s discarded by some other train operator based in northern England.

spellow3010 wrote:First Class 319s for Northern will start to take their place in some North West diagrams from May 2015 - they will run in existing section running time slots for the DMUs they replace at this time. It is currently unclear if they will just randomly appear on a DMU diagram one day, and not the next instead of using sufficient units to take over a specific service sector.

This is all dependent of course on whether FCC get their new units too.

Get ready for Class 168/3s out of Marylebone too - re-classified Class 170s discarded by some other train operator based in northern England.

Not discarded by First Trans Pennine Express, but forceably removed from them as being too good for the North of England

Springer6 wrote:

spellow3010 wrote:First Class 319s for Northern will start to take their place in some North West diagrams from May 2015 - they will run in existing section running time slots for the DMUs they replace at this time. It is currently unclear if they will just randomly appear on a DMU diagram one day, and not the next instead of using sufficient units to take over a specific service sector.

This is all dependent of course on whether FCC get their new units too.

Get ready for Class 168/3s out of Marylebone too - re-classified Class 170s discarded by some other train operator based in northern England.

Not discarded by First Trans Pennine Express, but forceably removed from them as being too good for the North of England

More like Porterbrook making a deal without telling TPE until the deal was signed already, I understand that the 170s will go through Wabtec at Loughborough(who are currently refurbishing the 168s) to bring them up to standard with the rest of the Chiltern unit fleet...

spellow3010 wrote:First Class 319s for Northern will start to take their place in some North West diagrams from May 2015 - they will run in existing section running time slots for the DMUs they replace at this time. It is currently unclear if they will just randomly appear on a DMU diagram one day, and not the next instead of using sufficient units to take over a specific service sector.

This is all dependent of course on whether FCC get their new units too.

Get ready for Class 168/3s out of Marylebone too - re-classified Class 170s discarded by some other train operator based in northern England.

I was told the first 319's would work on the Liverpool - Manchester Airport run from Dec 14 - although that could change.

Said unit being dragged to Allerton

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Now we know what it looks like, anyone fancy giving it a go?

http://www.northernrail.org/northern/electric-trains

Looks awful with that blue on the front.. should have kept it all yellow IMO

Fincra5 wrote:Looks awful with that blue on the front.. should have kept it all yellow IMO

I quite like it personally!

Personally I think 319's are ugly things but the Northern livery does make it look better.

Never travelled on one before (only on TS2014 ) so look forward to experiencing for real now they're arriving in my region, not too long to wait.....