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A Class 31 diesel locomotive in the standard Rail Blue colour scheme. Eventually, it was decided to standardise on a colour which became known as Rail Blue. Introduced in 1965 and also known as Monastral Blue, the colour was defined by British Rail standards BR28/6001 (Airless spray finish) and BR28/5321 (Brush finish). [2]
This page contains a list of colours used in previous/next station boxes on UK railway station (and related/similar) articles, believed to be up-to-date as of 26 December 2023.
With colour photography, the exact opposite of photographic grey was used. Locomotives were painted in colour schemes that would grab the attention of those seeing them in colour photographs and in films, which led to brightly coloured prototype diesel locomotives in the 1950s and 1960s such as the British Rail DP1 and HS 4000 Kestrel.
In 1903 R. J. Billinton changed the colour of the ordinary LB&SCR coaches to umber brown with white or cream upper panels, and in 1906 this colour scheme was also adopted by the Pullman Car Co., with the name of the car in large gilt letters on the lower panel and flanked on each side by a coloured transfer of the Pullman Company's crest.
A grey internal colour scheme resulted in a "rather murky ambience". The Class 321 is currently in service as Swift Express and leased to Varamis Rail for parcels services. [33] [57] [58] [59] 322: EMU: 1990 Five units of four cars each were built for the Stansted Express service—a non-stop shuttle train between Liverpool Street and London ...
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The Blue Pullmans were luxury trains used from 1960 to 1973 by British Rail.They were the first Pullman diesel multiple units, incorporating several novel features.. Named after their original Nanking blue livery, the trains were conceived under the 1955 Modernisation Plan to create luxury diesel express trains aimed at competing with the motor car and the emerging domestic air travel market.
Front cover of the manual. The British Rail Corporate Identity Manual is a corporate identity guide created in 1965 by British Rail.It was conceived in 1964, and finished in July 1965 by British Rail's Design Research Unit, [1] and introduced British Rail's enduring double arrow logo, created by Gerald Barney and still in use today as the logo for National Rail. [2]