British Rail Corporate Liveries

The history of British Rail's corporate liveries is quite complex. Although from the 1960s to the 1980s the company was associated with "Rail Blue", a number of other schemes were also used, especially when the company was sectorised in the 1980s. After the formation of British Railways in 1948, early BR diesel and electric locos and the gas turbine locomotives 18000 and 18100 were painted black with aluminium trim, but by the mid-1950s this had been superseded by a shade of green similar to that used on express passenger steam locomotives, although some locomotives were painted in a two-tone green livery. Multiple units were also generally green. Coaching stock was originally painted in two-tone crimson and cream livery across the network. In the mid 1950s an all-over darker maroon, which more closely resembled one of the pre-nationalisation liveries, was re-introduced, except for the Southern Region, where stock was generally painted malachite green, and a small number of express carriages on the Western Region which were in traditional GWR-style chocolate and cream.

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The history of British Rail's corporate liveries is quite complex. Although from the 1960s to the 1980s the company was associated with "Rail Blue", a number of other schemes were also used, especially when the company was sectorised in the 1980s. After the formation of British Railways in 1948, early BR diesel and electric locos and the gas turbine locomotives 18000 and 18100 were painted black with aluminium trim, but by the mid-1950s this had been superseded by a shade of green similar to that used on express passenger steam locomotives, although some locomotives were painted in a two-tone green livery. Multiple units were also generally green. Coaching stock was originally painted in two-tone crimson and cream livery across the network. In the mid 1950s an all-over darker maroon, which more closely resembled one of the pre-nationalisation liveries, was re-introduced, except for the Southern Region, where stock was generally painted malachite green, and a small number of express carriages on the Western Region which were in traditional GWR-style chocolate and cream.