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Class 152: The Ultimate 153 Stand-In Pack

This one's been something that I slowly worked on over about a month and a half, and I'm quite proud of the final result! 50 liveries (With more planned!), With quite a few of them being extremely obscure liveries that only existed for a couple of months ago, or decades ago - Additionally, this has been my biggest pack TO DATE, once again going above and beyond my previous packs in size.

It was rather tedious to look through 100s of photos to try and make all of them as accurate as possible, and then of course, I had to adapt them to fit the 156 bodyshell instead of the 153's more boxy bodyshell, which came with a whole host of extra challenges - Additionally, I was completely on my own as to finding where specific parts of the textures were, and what they painted, adding to the challenge - But I think I did manage to pull through, and make a solid product.


In my own headcannon to these, Back in 1988, BR's Reigonal Railways Division was looking for a smaller unit for branch line operations and small rural routes where there wasn't too much demand - In the wake of privatisation however, they were looking to spend as little money as possible, and so, decided to look into converting a existing set of multiple units, into single coach units, with a second cab added at the trailing end.

In the end, they had 3 choices, The class 155, the class 156, and the class 158 - In the end, they decided to go with the Class 156, as they had surplus units to spare. The work started in 1991, and was completed by 1992. These replace the 155 in being converted, and thus, the 155 is still a large fleet of 42 in this timeline.


As there is over 50 liveries, It would be unpractical to do my normal format for this, so instead, I encourage you to watch the video attached to the top of this workshop item for visuals of all the liveries I've included - However, here it is in writing as well:

Era 1 - Pre Privatisation

Regional Railways - Unlocks 1997
Regional Railways Unbranded - Unlocks 1997

Era 2 - Post Privatisation (1997 - 2007)

Central Trains - Unlocks 1997
Central Trains Unbranded - Unlocks 1997
Central Trains ex Regional Railways - Unlocks 1997
Arriva Trains Northern - Unlocks 1997
Arriva Trains Northern Unbranded - Unlocks 1997
Wessex Trains Heart Of Wessex Line - Unlocks 2001
Wessex Trains The Looe Valley Line - Unlocks 2001
Wessex Trains St Ives Bay Line - Unlocks 2001
Wessex Trains Great Scenic Railways Of Devon And Cornwall - Unlocks 2001
Arriva Trains Wales Classic Cream and Blue - Unlocks 2003
Arriva Trains Wales ex First North Western - Unlocks 2003
Arriva Trains Wales Classic Cream and Blue Unbranded - Unlocks 2003
Northern Rail Unbranded - Unlocks 2004
Northern Rail ex Arriva Trains Northern - Unlocks 2004
Northern Rail ex First North Western - Unlocks 2004
ONE Railways - Unlocks 2004
One Railways Unbranded - Unlocks 2004
East Midlands Trains ex Central Trains - Unlocks 2007
East Midlands Trains ex First North Western - Unlocks 2007
East Midlands Trains ex Arriva Trains Northern - Unlocks 2007
East Midlands Trains - Unlocks 2007
East Midlands Trains Unbranded - Unlocks 2007
London Midland - Unlocks 2007
London Midland Unbranded - Unlocks 2007

Era 3 - Mid Privatisation (2007 - 2017)

First Great Western Plain - Unlocks 2008
First Great Western Local Lines - Unlocks 2008
National Express East Anglia - Unlocks 2008
National Express East Anglia Debranded - Unlocks 2008
Northern Rail T Travel Unbranded - Unlocks 2009
Northern Rail T Travel - Unlocks 2009
Arriva Trains Wales Heart Of Wales Line - Unlocks 2009
First Great Western Visit Devon And Cornwall By Train - Unlocks 2012
Arriva Trains Wales Refurbished - Unlocks 2012
Arriva Trains Wales Refurbished Unbranded - Unlocks 2012
GreaterAnglia - Unlocks 2012
GreaterAnglia ex National Express East Anglia - Unlocks 2012
GreaterAnglia Debranded - Unlocks 2012
First Great Western ex London Midland - Unlocks 2013
First Great Western CitizensRail - Unlocks 2014
Great Western Railway - Unlocks 2015
Great Western Railway Ghost Grey - Unlocks 2016

Era 3 - The Wind Down of Privatisation (2017 - 2022)

West Midlands Railway - Unlocks 2017
Northern ex Great Western Railway - Unlocks 2018
Transport For Wales - Unlocks 2018
East Midlands Railway - Unlocks 2019
Transport For Wales ex GreaterAnglia - Unlocks 2019
Transport For Wales ex First Great Western - Unlocks 2019
Transport For Wales ex East Midlands Railway - Unlocks 2019
Network Rail ex East Midlands Railway - Unlocks 2022

Do remember, That due to this being a 152, Which is based on a 156 bodyshell, I have had to take creative liberties when creating certain liveries, to better match the bodyshell (For example, The London Midland livery is rather different, and I manually painted the fronts on most liveries to better match the 153!) so they may not be perfect - Still though, I hope you like them!

Planned Additions
These could not be implemented straight away, But will likely be added as time goes on.

Abellio GreaterAnglia - Unlocks 2012

The special wrap variant of the ATW HOW livery that only lasted a very small period of time in 2009 before being reverted - Unlocks 2009 (I need refs for this if anyone has any!)

153399 (Aka the 150/2 pretending to be a 153 and a FGW local lines liveried 153 combined) - Need to figure out how to combine the 150 files into this pack - If anyone could be of any assistance, let me know!)

ScotRail - Unlocks 2021 (Will require me commissioning a custom redo of the side art as I'm unable to find any usable refs)

Additional Credits

I certainly can't take credit for *All* liveries in this pack, as a few are minor edits of some of the liveries CW and HexAyed already did, to fill gaps in the livery selection - So thank you to them! Additionally, DevonHalstonDreadle has let me use his 150 reskin to base 399 on, so thanks to him.

And thanks to you!
Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy the pack! Again, this has essentially been my entire months worth of effort, so I hope I've done the liveries justice - Again, refs were very limited in certain cases, so, it was a huge pain. Enjoy!