User:Pencefn/Historical Scottish Railways
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[edit] Historical Scottish Railway Companies
[edit] Pre-grouping company colours
Summary of discussion from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transport in Scotland. Thanks mainly to Pyrotec and Dreamer84.
Different colours for each of the following.
- Glasgow and South Western Railway (and all owned/leased/managed lines)
- Caledonian Railway (and all related lines)
- Joint lines of the above two companies
- London, Midland and Scottish Railway (which I don't think has appeared anywhere... yet)
- British Rail
- Anything else anyone feels should be added
- any other misc line not under the above
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- The Caledonian Railway was famous for its use of Caledonian Blue (which apparently changed slightly over the years) for painting locos, etc. L.M.S., I think, had scarlet or crimson carriages. (G.W.R., OK not in Scotland: Chocolate and cream carriages). B.R. had black locos.
- North British Railway; joint Caledonian & N.B.R.: Dumbarton and Balloch joint line & Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Joint Line; presumably L.N.E.R. and Highland Railway.
- G&SWR Locos had unpainted boilers and light olive green tanks, cabs and bunkers. Also: Great North of Scotland Railway.
| Preceding station | Historical Railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Station | Glasgow and South Western Railway Line Name |
Station | ||
| Station | Caledonian Railway Line Name |
Station | ||
| Station | Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways Line Name |
Station | ||
| Station | British Rail Line Name |
Station | ||
| Station | London, Midland and Scottish Railway Line Name |
Station | ||
| Station | London and North Eastern Railway Line Name |
Station | ||
| Station | North British Railway Line Name |
Station | ||
| Station | Caledonian and North British Railways Line Name |
Station | ||
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- G&SWR: A light olive green (colour code #66ba5a)
- Caledonian: 'Caledonian Blue' (colour code #496799 is a very close match)
- Joint Caley and G&SWR: an aqua colour as a result of mixing the two above colours together (colour code #517a6a)
- British Rail: Black (#000000)
- LMS: Crimson (#DC143C)
- LNER: It's article says apple green on passenger locos (colour code #99cc67)
- North British: 'French mustard' locos (colour code #8f691e)
- NBR and Caley: Mixture (colour code #556920)
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- Happy to accept it, but John Thomas, Regional History, Vol 6, successfully ignores the big 4 and BR for the lowlands & Borders (which ignores the Highland Railway and GNSR). He uses red for G&SWR, blue for Caledonian, Green for North British, thick solid black for Cal/GWR Joint, two thin black lines for Cal/NBR joint and thin black for Others. The main point being do we need the LMS, LNER and BR colours? Pyrotec 09:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
