1929 Coach and Loco livery match?

[vonmarshall]

Hello all

I am normally to be found lurking in the GWR forum but having moved house recently to a Southern Railway region have started to pay a lot more attention to the trains that ran near my home many years ago.

One of my favourite trains I have modelled is the GWR 1929 Torbay Pullman with the white Pullman livery and this fits in with my preference for modelling trains I wish I could have travelled on. 

One of the reasons I like the GWR is the Ocean specials and obviously Southern had its fair share of them too. 

I have discovered that the earlier Golden Arrow trains and the 1929/30 Ocean specials would often have had both Maunsell stock and Pullmans and I think I would like to model one of these.

I am however finding it hard to get a clear answer on one question...

 

Was the Olive paint / livery on the coaches of this era the same as the one used on the Lord Nelson and King Arthur locomotives? 

 

any help would be most appreciated.

 

Many thanks 

[Wickham Green]

But your 'olives' ( greens ) shouldn't look anything like real olives ........ nobody knows how this term came about but the colour should be a lot darker - whether from Ashford, Brighton, Eastleigh, Lancing or the Trade.