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Liveries!

Discussie in 'Steam Traction' gestart door 61624, 17 jan 2018.

  1. The Green Howards

    The Green Howards Nat Pres stalwart

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    There is a suggestion elsewhere that when 73050 gets rebuilt it too will be in BR Green.
     
  2. Johnb

    Johnb Nat Pres stalwart

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    One or two were green, I remember 73029 & 73093 on the Southern
     
  3. 60017

    60017 Resident of Nat Pres Friend

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    I like Standard 5's in green ...even on a dull day :)

    DSC00346lr.jpg
     
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  4. The Green Howards

    The Green Howards Nat Pres stalwart

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    It'd be in good company with that Southern tin can at the NVR then! ;)

    There is a certain amusement factor in a former LNWR line becoming a Southern enclave...!
     
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  5. MellishR

    MellishR Resident of Nat Pres Friend

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    Either of those greens on its own it fine but not those two together.
     
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  6. 240P15

    240P15 Well-Known Member

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  7. paulhitch

    paulhitch Guest

    Booklet now published and available at Havenstreet. Proceeds will go to museum development.

    PH
     
  8. MellishR

    MellishR Resident of Nat Pres Friend

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    And anywhere else for those not visiting?
     
  9. paulhitch

    paulhitch Guest

    Best I can suggest is that you contact via info@iwsteamrailway.co.uk

    PH
     
  10. 240P15

    240P15 Well-Known Member

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    Hello :)
    Just of curiosity
    Of all the numerous Stanier 8f`s and Black Five`s constructed ,has it ever been any members of these painted in BR Brunswick green livery (through their service life? )

    Knut
     
  11. gwalkeriow

    gwalkeriow Well-Known Member

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    Not in their BR lives, a couple of Black 5s have carried BR Green (it’s is not Brunswick! and never has been
    ) in the preservation era. In the early days of BR a number of different liveries where trialed on Black 5s .
     
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  12. flying scotsman123

    flying scotsman123 Resident of Nat Pres

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    I seem to recall mention of one 5 being tried in apple green (or a variant thereof)?
     
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  13. bluetrain

    bluetrain Well-Known Member

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    According to Post #16 in the thread linked below, three Black Fives were experimentally painted green in 1948:

    https://www.national-preservation.c...il-express-passenger-blue-locomotives.238850/
     
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  14. 240P15

    240P15 Well-Known Member

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  15. 240P15

    240P15 Well-Known Member

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    Thank you for your reply and correcting me regarding the Brunswick green. I wasn`t aware of that.:)
     
  16. Jamessquared

    Jamessquared Nat Pres stalwart

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    This page should be on the Nat Pres FAQ (scroll near the bottom, or search within the page for “Brunswick”).

    Just above within the FAQ should be listed “the GCR was built to a similar loading gauge to many other British railways, years before the Berne loading gauge was even thought of” and just below should be written “Bulleid Pacifics were not fitted with Eastleigh reversers”. ;)

    Tom
     
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  17. GWR4707

    GWR4707 Nat Pres stalwart

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    Not my picture

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  18. 240P15

    240P15 Well-Known Member

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    Thanks a lot for the link Tom! :) This must be a challenge for modellers (even though I wish I was one of them)
     
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  19. 240P15

    240P15 Well-Known Member

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    Great! A "Green Five" :Woot:

    Thanks for posting this photo GWR4707!:)
     
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    Where would "The identity of a locomotive was not always dictated by the set of frames" go? :)
     

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