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Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by Leander's Shovel, Oct 20, 2007.

  1. LMS2968

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    I hope you've made your will . . .
     
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    with large or small yellow ends...?
     
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    Big Al Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator

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    Well somebody thinks that Tornado needs to 'reinvent' itself every so often and I guess painting it with something off the appropriate colour chart is a way of doing it. At least that way the loco satisfies everyone's colour preference at some point.
     
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    If only that was true...someone, somewhere will object to everything it wears, or even it's very existence.
     
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    There was a hint of irony in my comment. For instance in his time at Tyseley I don't think there was much chance that Bob Meanley would allow anyone to paint 5043/7029 - you name it - in any colour other than the proper one.
     
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    Any one up for any of these four? My own preference would be for North British Green. I also like how the cylinder covers are painted, was that a Darlington preference?
     
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    Yes the green panel on the cylinders was Darlington practice
     
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    I'd vote for Darlington-built = NER Green. Simples :)
     
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    Any colour's fine by me but I wish the nameplate backing colour was black not pale blue
     
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    Just out of interest was that a region thing? Blue Peter’s had red, black and light blue plates, 35028 has red and black plates. I’ve always thought the light blue was a Scottish thing?
     
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    Pale blue is a good nameplate colour. Ask any BB Pacific owner. :)
     
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    How about WC owners? ;)
     
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    Any colour that's not red! Red looks magnificent on an ex-LMS or ex-LT engine, not so much on (almost) anything else...

    Taw Valley's red makeover was horrific, but 2253 Omaha wears the red well.
     
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    It’s maroon actually! Same shade as used by EWS I believe? Could it have happened if the Merchant Navies had gone to the London Midland?
     
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    No it couldn’t!
     
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    I always understood it was a nod to the RAF origins of the name

    Keith
     
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    I agree about the nameplate. 60114 'W P Allen' (36A Doncaster) had the pale blue nameplate when I saw it in 1964. Eye-catching at the time, maybe the only pale blue plate I saw and I remember it with fondness, but it clashed with the loco.

    The pale blue on that huge Tornado nameplate detracts. Black, as you say, or red would have been better.
     
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    How would Blue Peter fit in with that though?
     

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