British Railways Region Colours on Coaches

[yorksrob]

Isn't that just 50s all-over crimson? crimson & cream without the cream.

My interpretation of Parkin, which mainly deals with Mark 1 stock, is that from 1949 to 1956 just about everything on all regions was painted in the original BR crimson lake. This would include stock on the Southern Region: anything to be seen in green was in the old Southern Railway colours, possibly revarnished or touched up.

Thanks for the info.

It certainly looks very striking in the few colour photos from that time.

 

[Irascible]

Also had the advantage that if you didn't clean it, when it was dirty it looked maroon so no repainting needed! ( joking, mostly )

Bright red is a bit of a wierd colour for a steam railway, still.

 

[randyrippley]

Isn't that just 50s all-over crimson? crimson & cream without the cream.

You're making the same mistake as I did earlier
Crimson lake is the same as maroon. However a different maroon than used on the LMS.............
"Blood & custard" was usually described as carmine & cream - and the old coaches at Weymouth were all-over carmine, not crimson. Even though the colour was seemingly described as maroon by BR, but that would have been before fading....At this time distance it seems hard to know just what the colour was supposed to be

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Crimson Lake and Cream or Blood and Custard Coaches in the 60’s

Anyone any ideas where we could find some example numbers of all types of coaches that made it into the 60’s in Crimson Lake and Cream livery. Thanks Fred

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[alexl92]

The green and cream livery was a BR version of the LNER Tourist livery and we had a thread on that recently:

Green and Cream Livery

In the toy section of a folk museum I noticed, in a glass case of model trains and cars, an OO scale carriage in green and cream livery, the green (a mid shade) being on the lower bodyside. The model looked authentic, and the style was of a main line carriage of the 1930-1960 period. What...

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The blood and custard livery has always intrigued me a bit because I’ve seen so many different shades of it at various preserved railways. I’d love to know what the original specifications were.

I started a thread on this a few years back as I’d noticed that for example the Bluebell B&C set was a brighter red and more of a cream colour, whereas the NYMR stock is more of a yellow-y custardy colour with what looks to me more like scarlet red. Can’t find the post yet but will report back when I do!