The new red, white and blue branding mirrors the colours of the Union Flag, and will start to appear from next year.
  • anothermember@feddit.ukEnglish
    12·
    2 个月前

    I don’t hate it as a design, though going with the union flag is a bit heavy-handed and not what I would have gone for, on first impression the colours remind me of NSE and not in a bad way. I would have gone for Rail Blue myself.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      2 个月前

      It’s the most boring livery they could have come up with, and not exactly an original design but perhaps they weren’t go in for a originality.

      It creates somewhat of a Mandela effect, it’s so generic that I couldn’t 100% guarantee that they didn’t already look like that.

      Given that renationalisation is a bit of a hot button topic for the right wing, they probably didn’t want to rock the boat too much. This doesn’t particularly draw attention to itself.

      • anothermember@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        Boring isn’t necessarily bad, in fact I would argue that my preference for bringing back Rail Blue would be even more boring. I think it’s best if people can come to associate their feelings of the railways with the livery rather than the other way round, so I’m favouring something simple and timeless.

  • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    2 个月前

    I’m not a fan of this livery and app design tbh.

    Partially just from a subjective dislike of the design and partially from an objective dislike of overt nationalism.

  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    2 个月前

    the government has previously said it cannot guarantee customers will see lower prices under renationalisation

    I wonder where all those profits are going to go then. I guess we always need more money to give to fossil fuel and weapons companies 🫠