Liveries & Operators Directory
In real life, vehicle ownership & usage can change frequently, and it can often take time for the current operator's livery to be applied to all vehicles (if at all).
The majority of Ready-To-Run scale model vehicles are reproduced in the colour scheme & branding of the organisation which operated the vehicle.
Categorisation can be a challenging (and often contentious!) topic. Some definitions which help us:
Owner - an organisation who a vehicle belongs to, and which may be leased to operators
Operator - an organisation with a fleet of vehicles, which may be owned or leased
Livery - a colour scheme & branding, often related to the owner or operator of the vehicle
Start year - the year when a livery was first applied
End year - the year when a livery ceased being commonly used/applied. Sometimes it would take a period for vehicles to be repainted
Heritage liveries - Anniversaries or nostalgia often inspire operators to paint selected vehicles in colour schemes replicating or inspired by past liveries
A lot of kit models are supplied undecorated.
Scene:
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Any or Multiple Countries
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechia
Czechoslovakia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Germany
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
European (Mainland)
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands - Dutch
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
North Macedonia
Northern Ireland
Norway
Oman
Other country not in this list
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Prussia
Qatar
Republic of Ireland
Republic of the Congo
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uruguay
USA - American
USSR
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zambia
zDuplicates for Deletion
Zimbabwe
Liverpool and Manchester Railway
1830
- 1845
Ffestiniog Railway
1835
- Present Day
GWR chocolate and cream
1835
- 1947
LSWR - London and South Western Railway
1838
- 1922
MR - Midland Railway
1844
- 1922
NBR - North British Railway
1844
- 1922
CR - Caledonian Railway
1845
- 1922
GNR - Great Northern Railway
1846
- 1922
LBSCR - London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
1846
- 1922
LNWR - London and North Western Railway
1846
- 1922
LYR - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
1847
- 1922
Royal Train
1850
- Present Day
NER - North Eastern Railway
1854
- 1922
GER - Great Eastern Railway
1862
- 1922
SDJR - Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
1862
- 1930
Metropolitan Railway
1863
- 1933
Cambrian Railways
1864
- 1922
HR - Highland Railway
1865
- 1922
GVT - Glyn Valley Tramway
1873
- 1935
Brighton and Hove
1884
- Present Day
Aberdeen Corporation
1898
- 1975
LBR - Lynton and Barnstaple Railway
1898
- 1922
Birmingham City Transport
1899
- 1969
GCR - Great Central Railway
1899
- 1922
SECR - South Eastern and Chatham Railway
1899
- 1922
East Kent Railway
1900
- 1949
KESR - Kent and East Sussex Railway
1900
- 1939
Royal Navy
1900
- Present Day
Reading Buses
1901
- Present Day
Yellow Buses
1902
- Present Day
Yorkshire Traction
1902
- 2005
Ipswich Buses
1903
- Present Day
Longmoor Military Railway
1903
- 1969
Northern Counties Committee (Ireland)
1903
- 1949
Nottingham City Transport
1906
- Present Day
West Yorkshire Road Car Company
1906
- 1989
Finglands Coachways
1907
- 2013
Maidstone and District
1911
- 1998
GWR crimson lake
1912
- 1922
London Underground
1913
- Present Day
War Department
1914
- 1950
Railway Operating Division - WW1
1915
- 1920
Southdown Motor Services
1915
- 1989
Wilts & Dorset
1915
- Present Day
ECC International (English China Clay)
1919
- 1999
Ribble Motor Services
1919
- 1989
Pullman
1920
- Present Day
Royal Mail
1920
- Present Day
LMS crimson lake
1923
- 1947
LNER pre-war brown
1923
- 1947
SR engineers red
1923
- 1947
SR olive green
1923
- 1947
SNCB - Belgian Railways
1926
- Present Day
Southern Vectis
1929
- Present Day
Eastern Counties
1931
- 1987
London Transport
1933
- 2000
Abbots of Leeming
1937
- Present Day
LMS coronation blue
1937
- 1946
LNER garter blue
1937
- 1947
SNCF - French Railways
1938
- Present Day
SR malachite green
1941
- 1947
NCB - National Coal Board
1946
- 1987
BR black with British Railways lettering
1948
- 1951
BR crimson and cream
1948
- 1960
BR experimental purple
1948
- 1951
BR green with early emblem
1948
- 1957
BR non-standard
1948
- 1994
BR plain black
1948
- 1980
BR plain green
1948
- 1970
Ulster Transport Authority
1948
- 1966
BR black with early emblem
1949
- 1957
BR express passenger blue
1949
- 1955
Scottish Omnibuses Ltd
1949
- 1985
BR green with coaching stock roundel
1950
- 1972
Titfield Thunderbolt
1953
- 1953
BR departmental olive
1955
- 1985
BR chocolate and cream
1956
- 1966
BR black with late crest
1957
- 1968
BR green with late crest
1957
- 1972
BR electric blue
1959
- 1968
Blue Pullman 'Nanking blue'
1960
- Present Day
BR golden ochre
1963
- 1967
Stotts Tours Oldham
1963
- Present Day
BR blue and grey
1965
- 1990
Silcock & Collings
1966
- 1990
British Steel
1967
- 1999
NIR - Northern Ireland Railways
1967
- Present Day
Freightliner (BR)
1968
- 1994
Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
1968
- 1986
West Midlands PTE
1969
- 1990
BR engineers yellow
1970
- 1994
Eddie Stobart
1970
- Present Day
Amtrak
1971
- Present Day
BR research department
1972
- 1994
National Express
1972
- Present Day
MAT-Transauto
1973
- 1996
Blue Circle Cement
1978
- 2001
BR large logo blue
1978
- 1994
Cargowaggon
1979
- Present Day
Stagecoach Scotland
1980
- Present Day
British Industrial Sand (BIS)
1982
- 1987
London and South East
1982
- 1986
Railfreight grey (inc. Red Stripe)
1982
- 1992
First South West (aka Devon & Cornwall)
1983
- Present Day
Metrobus
1983
- Present Day
Provincial Bus Company
1983
- 1995
ScotRail (BR)
1983
- 1997
Stagecoach West
1983
- Present Day
Stagecoach Western
1983
- Present Day
BR Highland green and cream
1984
- 1995
GMPTE - Greater Manchester PTE
1985
- 2000
Strathclyde Passenger Transport
1985
- 2015
Western Scottish
1985
- 1997
Andrews of Sheffield
1986
- 1995
Foster Yeoman
1986
- 2006
National Express West Midlands
1986
- Present Day
NSE - Network SouthEast
1986
- 1994
Regional Railways
1986
- 2000
Stagecoach North East
1986
- Present Day
ARC - Amey Roadstone
1987
- 1999
Bluestar
1987
- Present Day
Irish Rail / Iarnród Éireann
1987
- Present Day
Railfreight 'Sector' triple grey
1987
- 1994
RFS Engineering
1987
- 2000
Departmental grey
1988
- 1994
Hunslet-Barclay
1989
- 2003
London Central
1989
- Present Day
London General
1989
- Present Day
Metroline
1989
- Present Day
Parcels sector
1989
- 1994
Selkent
1989
- Present Day
Stagecoach South
1989
- Present Day
Stagecoach South East
1989
- Present Day
Aintree Coachline
1990
- Present Day
Civil Engineers 'Dutch'
1990
- 2000
Infrastructure
1990
- 1995
Stagecoach Mansfield
1990
- Present Day
RES - Rail Express Systems
1991
- 2002
Railfreight Distribution (RFD)
1992
- 1997
uno (UniversityBus)
1992
- Present Day
Central Services
1993
- 1995
Mendip Rail
1993
- Present Day
Deutsche Bahn
1994
- Present Day
Eurostar
1994
- Present Day
Mainline Freight
1994
- 1996
Merseyrail
1994
- Present Day
Stagecoach London
1994
- Present Day
Waterman Railways
1994
- 2000
DRS - Direct Rail Services
1995
- Present Day
EPS (European Passenger Services) Grey
1995
- 1998
National Power
1995
- 1999
Stagecoach East (aka Cambus)
1995
- Present Day
Chiltern Railways
1996
- Present Day
EWS - English Welsh and Scottish
1996
- 2009
First Glasgow
1996
- Present Day
Freightliner PLC
1996
- Present Day
Gatwick Express
1996
- 2008
GNER - Great North Eastern Railway
1996
- 2007
Great Western Trains
1996
- 1998
Island Line / Isle of Wight
1996
- Present Day
Midland Mainline
1996
- 2007
South West Trains
1996
- 2017
Stagecoach Manchester
1996
- Present Day
Thames Trains
1996
- 2004
Travel West Midlands
1996
- 2008
Wales and West
1996
- 2001
Anglia Railways
1997
- 2004
Central Trains
1997
- 2007
First Hampshire & Dorset
1997
- Present Day
First North Western
1997
- 2004
First Scotland East
1997
- Present Day
Scotrail (NatEx)
1997
- 2004
Virgin Cross Country
1997
- 2007
Virgin West Coast
1997
- 2019
WAGN - West Anglia Great Northern
1997
- 2006
Cambrian Trains
1998
- 2001
First Great Western
1998
- 2015
Harry Needle Railroad Company
1998
- Present Day
Northern Spirit
1998
- 2001
Unilink Southampton
1998
- Present Day
WCRC - West Coast Railway Company
1998
- Present Day
Western Greyhound
1998
- 2015
Hanson Aggregates
1999
- Present Day
Cotswold Rail
2000
- 2010
Hull Trains
2000
- Present Day
Advenza Freight
2001
- 2010
GBRf - GB Railfreight
2001
- Present Day
Southern Rail
2001
- Present Day
Wessex Trains
2001
- 2006
Network Rail
2002
- Present Day
Riviera Trains
2002
- 2015
Arriva Trains Wales
2003
- 2018
South Eastern Trains
2003
- Present Day
First Transpennine Express
2004
- 2015
National Express East Anglia
2004
- 2012
Network Colchester
2004
- 2015
Northern Rail (2004 to 2016)
2004
- 2016
Scotrail (First)
2004
- 2015
Go North East
2005
- Present Day
Go North East
2005
- Present Day
Go North East
2005
- Present Day
Go North East
2005
- Present Day
Go South Coast
2005
- Present Day
Stagecoach Yorkshire
2005
- Present Day
Fastline Freight
2006
- 2010
First Capital Connect
2006
- 2014
RailAdventure
2006
- Present Day
Colas Rail
2007
- Present Day
CrossCountry Trains
2007
- Present Day
East Midlands Trains
2007
- 2019
Grand Central Trains
2007
- Present Day
Greater Anglia
2007
- Present Day
London Midland (2007)
2007
- 2017
London Overground
2007
- Present Day
Go Ahead London
2008
- Present Day
RSS - Railway Support Services
2008
- Present Day
Wrexham and Shropshire
2008
- 2011
Abellio London
2009
- Present Day
Aggregate Industries
2009
- Present Day
DB Schenker / DB Cargo UK
2009
- Present Day
Devon and Cornwall Railways
2011
- Present Day
Stagecoach North West
2011
- Present Day
Ermewa
2012
- Present Day
Great Northern (GTR)
2014
- Present Day
Rail Operations Group
2014
- Present Day
Caledonian Sleeper
2015
- Present Day
Great Western Railway (2015)
2015
- Present Day
Hitachi Rail
2015
- Present Day
Scotrail (Saltire)
2015
- Present Day
Transport for London
2015
- Present Day
Virgin East Coast
2015
- 2018
Xplore Dundee
2015
- Present Day
Northern Trains (2016 to Present)
2016
- Present Day
TransPennine Express
2016
- Present Day
West Midlands Trains
2017
- Present Day
LNER - London North Eastern Railway (2018)
2018
- Present Day
Saphos Trains
2018
- Present Day
Touax Rail Ltd
2018
- Present Day
Transport for Wales
2018
- Present Day
Avanti West Coast
2019
- Present Day
East Midlands Railway
2019
- Present Day
Loram Rail Operations
2019
- Present Day
Cappagh
2020
- Present Day
Rail Charter Services
2020
- Present Day
Hanson and Hall Rail Solutions
2021
- Present Day
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
Birmingham Corporation Transport
Black & White Motorways Ltd
Bolton Corporation Transport
Brighton Corporation Transport
Chatham & District Traction Co
Chester Corporation Transport
City of Cardiff Transport
City of Lincoln Transport
City of Oxford Motor Services
Colchester Borough Transport
Derby Corporation Transport
Dundee Corporation Transport
Durham District Services Ltd
East Kent Road Car Co Ltd
Edinburgh Corporation Transport
Hallmark Car and Coach Ltd
Lincolnshire Road Car Co.
Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport
Londonderry and Lough Swilly
Lytham St Annes Corporation
Morecambe and Heysham Corp Transport
Northumbria Motor Services
Reading Corporation Transport
Southampton Corporation Transport
Sunderland District Omnibus
Tynemouth and District Transport Co Ltd
United Automobile Services Ltd
W Robinson & Sons (Tours) Ltd
West Bromwich Corporation
Commemorative / Special event
(Fictitious)
Harry Potter - Hogwarts Railways
(Fictitious)
Not Applicable
(Fictitious)
Thomas the Tank Engine
(Fictitious)
Uncategorised
(Fictitious)
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