Brantham Bin 2009-07-02--003
321319 heads north at Brantham, working a Liverpool Street - Ipswich service.
The EMU carries First Great Eastern livery, designed when the owning group was still known as First Bus. The style of the livery is similar to the pink, white and dark blue "Barbie" scheme used on the company's buses (although only low-floor single deckers and new double deckers had the corporate colours applied, at least initially). When FGE ordered class 360 "Desiro" EMUs from Siemens, they gained a version of the "Barbie" scheme, but it was never applied to anything else on FGE (it did appear on old trains on First Great Western and First North Western). The Greater Anglia franchisee 'one' subsequently rebranded itself as National Express East Anglia and everything gained a white stripe (for the brands "national express" and "East Anglia" to be applied), and this is visible below the windows.
When first built, Network SouthEast's class 321 EMUs were dubbed "Dusty Bins" by enthusiasts (later shortened to just "Bins"), as a result of the ITV game show 3-2-1. This ran from July 1978 to December 1988 (so had just finished when the first 321s entered service in early 1989), and had "Dusty Bin" - a dustbin - as the booby prize.
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Brantham Bin 2009-07-02--003
321319 heads north at Brantham, working a Liverpool Street - Ipswich service.
The EMU carries First Great Eastern livery, designed when the owning group was still known as First Bus. The style of the livery is similar to the pink, white and dark blue "Barbie" scheme used on the company's buses (although only low-floor single deckers and new double deckers had the corporate colours applied, at least initially). When FGE ordered class 360 "Desiro" EMUs from Siemens, they gained a version of the "Barbie" scheme, but it was never applied to anything else on FGE (it did appear on old trains on First Great Western and First North Western). The Greater Anglia franchisee 'one' subsequently rebranded itself as National Express East Anglia and everything gained a white stripe (for the brands "national express" and "East Anglia" to be applied), and this is visible below the windows.
When first built, Network SouthEast's class 321 EMUs were dubbed "Dusty Bins" by enthusiasts (later shortened to just "Bins"), as a result of the ITV game show 3-2-1. This ran from July 1978 to December 1988 (so had just finished when the first 321s entered service in early 1989), and had "Dusty Bin" - a dustbin - as the booby prize.
Visit Brian Carter's Non-Transport Pics to see my photos of landscapes, buildings, bridges, sunsets, rainbows and more.