Thank you for all the information. Right, now what years did you get the BR Blue change over to other company colours, and get what I think is known as mixed traffic.
What would you get running together with BR blue, up to the point that BR Blue totally stopped running.
Thank you for any help.
"Paul" wrote
If you look through the various 'year' pages of the following of my websites, you'll get a pretty accurate idea:-
John.
I don't there has ever been time that BR blue locos have not been running, there have been a few repaints to mainline locos since privitisation. A basic dichotomy for what is known as Rail blue starts in the 1960's with blue locos and coaches in blue grey, inversed for Pullmans and allover blue for EMUs and DMUs. EMUs and DMUs eventually got blue grey with refurbished DMUs going white with blue for a few years. In the early 80's large logo arrived for locos. Rail blue started to fade away with class 58 introducing what is known as red stripe railfreight livery followed by APT inspired liveries for Inter-City. Then full sectorisation took hold and NSE, RR and Parcels got their own liveries and freight rebranded with the livery introduced with the class
60s. Through all this rail blue locos still roamed due to longevity of paint jobs and lack of money (BR). Then just as they were almost gone Vrgin repainted some 47's and later 87's in rail blue and recently some Mk3's have come back in blue grey with suitable 47's.Chris
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