Roof colour for DMUs

[westerner]

Was there a specific colour for DMU roof in the late50's to early 60's and if there is who makes it? Was it the same as coach roof grey?

 

Many thanks for your replies.

[Il Grifone]

AFAIK the roof colour was the same on DMUs and coaches. Humbrol used to do a colour 'BR Coach Roof Lead' which was a dark grey. In any case it was academic, as the roofs quickly became sooty black.

[muddys-blues]

Its pretty much the same roof mid grey as most coaching stock, but varying the grey slightly between unit cars and adding some weathering and blistering patches on different coaches will add some real work like quality to your model, unless it is ex works that is.

[muddys-blues]

Good source of DMU information is The Railcar Association, link below:

 

http://www.railcar.co.uk/index.htm

[westerner]

Thanks chaps By the way PMP it's a 120 in green.

[Adam]

Is that a WR version rather than the Scottish, with or without the wight cab roofs?

 

Now, I'm only guessing based on the small prairie avatar, but...

 

 

I can't imagine that they (ScR and WR builds) were very different, since they were built at the same works at about the same time, '60 was only a year or two after introduction for a Swindon Cross-Country and TOPS was over a decade away. Grey. Exactly the same grey as Swindon used for their carriage roofs at exactly the same time. Whatever that was. Darkish, but so long as the entire unit is consistent, I doubt it matters all that much.

 

Adam

[Pennine MC]

 

115 or 131 should do it.

 

Nooooo, it's a 120. Don't bloody listen, do ya

[westerner]

It'll be a western one without white cab roofs.

[tim@dy]

It'll be a western one without white cab roofs.

When I worked on the 120's in the 1970's the roofs were a dark grey/soot colour,the AEC engines could empty their sump oil onto the roofs quite frequently and every where else for that matter!