Rail liveries as art
This article was created on 17 February 2012
Three rail liveries carried by British Rail passenger stock have been
adopted as art in a project by student Daniel Dowling.
Dowling, who is studying Fine Art at the Hastings campus of the University of Brighton,
visited St. Leonards depot by special arrangement on 11 January 2012;
also present were three ladies who modelled three dresses carrying the
livery designs.
Above: BR Southern Green livery, modelled
in motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells, originally of unit 1013.
Above: Network SouthEast livery, modelled
in buffet car 69337 which originated with
4-BIG unit 2210.
Above: Network SouthEast and BR Southern
Green liveries, modelled in the buffet car and adjacent DEMU trailer
car.
Above: “1066 Electric” was the name under
which the Hastings Line service was relaunched following the completion
of electrification from Tonbridge to Hastings in 1986 (see history page); the livery
accompanying this was the BR London & South Eastern sector’s “Jaffa
Cake” scheme, which was worn by the fleet of 4-CEPs that replaced the
DEMUs. The Jaffa Cake livery is seen alongside that of Network
SouthEast, appropriately modelled in our 4-CEP trailer 70262 which previously came from unit 1524.