E Class Liveries

[roxyguy]

Stumbled across these. Does anybody know if know if the E class actually ran in these liveries. I really like the black with the white snail. I think I remember seeing a silver E class at the fry model railway

[jhb171achill]

Black with snail is a livery that nothing ever carried.

 

The E421 class went into traffic in Black and Tan with CIE roundel, and remained that way, or black with white flashes on the ends all their lives. They carried no other livery ever.

 

The earlier E401 class, which is depicted in the cartoon, entered traffic in all silver (roof and chassis included, not dark grey chassis as depicted above). Buffer beams were red and numerals on cab sides were pale green (not black as depicted above). No logos were carried. Thus, no E class ever carried a snail. These earlier locos were eventually painted either black'n'tan or black, and like the 421 class remained thus until withdrawal.

 

I agree with you - both those above look quite well, but neither have any basis in reality.

Edited January 29, 2015 by jhb171achill

[roxyguy]

Black with snail is a livery that nothing ever carried.

 

The E421 class went into traffic in Black and Tan with CIE roundel, and remained that way, or black with white flashes on the ends all their lives. They carried no other livery ever.

 

The earlier E401 class, which is depicted in the cartoon, entered traffic in all silver (roof and chassis included, not dark grey chassis as depicted above). Buffer beams were red and numerals on cab sides were pale green (not black as depicted above). No logos were carried. Thus, no E class ever carried a snail. These earlier locos were eventually painted either black'n'tan or black, and like the 421 class remained thus until withdrawal.

 

I agree with you - both those above look quite well, but neither have any basis in reality.

 

Thanks for the accurate info. I have done one from shapeways in black before. Might try one of these liveries though - just for fun!

[minister_for_hardship]

Westrail had a red 'E'.

 

http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image/pjpeg/2dc367171d18a4e8cbaedddbff208186d8697abf.pjpg

 

http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12453&d=1395315452

[roxyguy]

Westrail had a red 'E'.

 

http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image/pjpeg/2dc367171d18a4e8cbaedddbff208186d8697abf.pjpg

 

http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12453&d=1395315452

 

Hi, thanks for that. Have never seem that before, reminds me of the NR red livery. Looks like tuam?? Can you please enlighten me, what was west rail??

 

Thanks.

[Garfield]

Hi, thanks for that. Have never seem that before, reminds me of the NR red livery. Looks like tuam?? Can you please enlighten me, what was west rail??

 

Thanks.

 

Westrail was a preservation group which was based in Tuam and ran railtours from there during the 1980s and early '90s. There's a good account of the group's history here: http://irnirishrailwaynews.yuku.com/topic/1933/Westrail-Adventure

[roxyguy]

Westrail was a preservation group which was based in Tuam and ran railtours from there during the 1980s and early '90s. There's a good account of the group's history here: http://irnirishrailwaynews.yuku.com/topic/1933/Westrail-Adventure

 

Thanks for that, wasn't aware that this group had existed. Fantastic pictures. Gives me ideas to do a maroon E class with blood and custard coaches like the pics:)

[jhb171achill]

E421 bore a two-tone green livery for a while when it first went to the DCDR. It was intended to represent what way the BCDR might have painted it had they survived another forty years.

[Jawfin]

"No snail," you say?

 

http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20A/Attymon/slides/Attymon_20080419_0009.jpg

 

WestRail had a different idea with 428! Although, of course, it never carried anything of the sort in service

[jhb171achill]

I think the strangest "logo issue" of anything ever in traffic was the RPSI's No. 4 in its last days in NIR use. It had the new NIR logo on one side, and the UTA crest on the other!

[Eiretrains]

Those trains are not a cartoon but are from Trainz sim! The E421 Class, the first few ran in a red undercoat colour during the first few months, prior to been painted in the normal black/tan livery as it was then.