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National Express East… Anglia and Coast.

WITH THE WHOLE train sporting the new National Express East Anglia identity - applied so far to just one of the operator’s Mk. 3 sets - Class 90/0 No. 90008 hammers down the Great Eastern Main Line at Swainsthorpe, just a few miles south of its originating point, with the 1P53 17.00 Norwich to London Liverpool Street service on May 30th, 2009. This is the second time that these locos and trains have been reliveried since being withdrawn by Virgin Trains from the WCML in the early 2000s.

Not quite as classy as the GNER blue and red colour scheme it replaced, National Express East Coast’s silver-grey and white looks quite attractive when clean, although the livery application on the HST power cars feels somewhat unfinished. Class 43s Nos. 43309 & 43208 powers along the East Coast Main Line just north of Helpston Junction, Cambridgeshire, on June 2nd, with the 1D45 18.03 King’s Cross to Skipton.