Liveries - 156 Super-Sprinter

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The many liveries carried by class 156 trains are listed here, with descriptions of each on separate pages.

Livery

Carried by

October 2010

ScotRail Saltire livery

First ScotRail units.
From February 2009.

156.430,431,432,433,434,435,436,437,439,442,
156.445,494,495,500,501,502,503,504,505,506,
156.507,508,509,510,511,512,513,514

EMT blue livery

11 East Midlands Trains units. From April 2008.

156.401,403,404,405,406,408,
156.410,411,413,414,415

National Express livery

A NXEA unit. Applied March 2008.

156.419

Advertising livery - Chapelfield

A 'one' unit. Applied June 2007.

156.402

one Railway livery

one Railway units.
From March 2005

156.407,409,416,417,422

Northern livery
Version 3

46 Northern Rail units.
From May 2005

156.420,421,423,424,425,426,427,428,429,438,
156.440,441,443,444,448,451,452,454,455,459,
156,460,461,463,464,466,468,469,470,471,472,
156.473,475,479,480,481,482,483,484,486,487,
156.488,489,490,491,497,498

Northern livery
Version 2

Three Northern Rail units.
From January 2005

none since September 2009

Northern livery
Version 1

A Northern Rail unit.
From December 2004

none since May 2008

First (ScotRail) livery

First ScotRail units.
From October 2004

156.446,447,449,450,453,456,457,
156.458,462,465,467,474,476,477,
156.478,485,492,493,496,499

Plain blue

Four former First North Western units. From August 2004

none since August 2009

Plain white

A 'one' unit. Painted July 2003.

none since June 2007

First (North Western) livery

Ten First North Western units.
From June 2003

none since September 2009

Central Trains livery

Central Trains and 'one' units.
Repaints since 2000.

156.412,418

ScotRail Railways livery

20 ScotRail units.
From 2000

none since November 2006

Northern Spirit livery

28 Arriva Trains Northern units. From 1999

none since April 2009

SPT livery

ScotRail units sponsored by Strathclyde PTE.
From 1996

None since August 2010

Express livery

20 Central Trains units. From 1995

none since June 2005

North West Regional Railways livery

18 First North Western units.
From 1995.

none since April 2005

Strathclyde Transport livery

14 units, 156.501-514 as delivered from 1989.

none since January 2000

Provincial Sprinter livery

100 units, 156.401-500 as delivered from 1987.

none since April 2001