Flipping through TV channels last night I came across a programme about restoring four vintage carriages fo the Llangollen Railway. One was a LSWR coach and the livery was pink upper body sides and chocolate brown lower. It was so unbelievably ghastly that I wonder if this was correct.
In the absence of colour photos from those days, do we really know what those old liveries were? How would we know apart from verbal descriptions? I had imagined that LSWR was chocolate and cream like the GWR, but with perhaps the shades a bit different.
Incidentally, when did the Southern adopt its all-green? Having grown up in Southern territory in the 1960s, I grew to find green rather boring and wished they had something like the chocolate and cream, or the blood and custard, of other regions.
In the absence of colour photos from those days, do we really know what those old liveries were? How would we know apart from verbal descriptions? I had imagined that LSWR was chocolate and cream like the GWR, but with perhaps the shades a bit different.
Incidentally, when did the Southern adopt its all-green? Having grown up in Southern territory in the 1960s, I grew to find green rather boring and wished they had something like the chocolate and cream, or the blood and custard, of other regions.