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The Kettering-Huntingdon Line has always been of modelling interest and I'm currently in the early stages of building a layout based on the line. More soon. 

 

At or near Raunds the boundary line changed from the Midland Region to the Eastern Region. With this the station buildings and infrastructure were painted in Eastern Region colours. I appreciate signage was dark blue but what colour would doors, windows, guttering and down pipes be?

 

With regards to Raunds signal box it was a standard Midland Railway design. In some coloured photographs I have the structural timbers look green or even shades of blue. The louvered timbers are white or cream. I appreciate film colour changes over time.

 

Does anyone have any information?

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

Cheers, 

 

Mark

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From images taken in the 1960s it seems that a lot of the midland railway infastructure in the Airedale and Wharfdale lines in Yorkshire were repainted when the regional boundarys changed.

 

This meant into Pale Blue and White for the North Eastern Region. Most of these seem to have hung around in these colours well into the 1970s and beyond. This includes after tge North Eastern and Eastern were merged together.

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Eastern Region (rather than North Eastern Region) from Nationalisation up to the BR Corporate Image period (late 60's) buildings were painted with doors, window frames, guttering etc. green, and areas of woodwork (e.g. panelling on wooden station buildings & signal boxes) cream.  Largely this carried on from LNER practice (and some ex LNER buildings may have remained unpainted) but buildings were repainted by BR in the above colours, particularly where the ER took over stations which had not been LNER, such as the ex Midland line you mention.

 

 

 

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I have a copy of the LNER Schedule of Colours 1937 which used to be found on line courtesy of the London North Eastern E-Group (unfortunately web address is now defunct):

 

LARGE ROOFS, ROOFS OVER PLATFORMS, AWNINGS & VERANDAS

All woodwork above underside of capitals of columns inside / outside - Light Stone BSS 61 or Deep Cream BSS 53

 

All steel and ironwork above capitals of columns to underside of roofs - Sea Green BSS 17

 

High Columns - Bases deep Brunswick Green BSS 27, stems Brilliant Green BSS 21

 

Low Columns 8 ft or less to capital - To underside of capital Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

CORNICES, FASCIAS, BARGE-BOARDS / MOULDS TO SAME

Light Stone BSS 61 or deep cream BSS 53

 

DOORS, DOOR & WINDOW FRAMES (OUTSIDE)

Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

Styles & Rails - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

Panels - Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

WINDOW SASHES & FANLIGHTS

Light Stone BSS 61 or Deep Cream BSS 53

 

TIMBER STATION BUILDINGS

Body of woodwork - Light Stone BSS 61 or Deep Cream BSS 53

 

Dado Rail - Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

Frame & Baseboard - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

GUTTERS, SPOUTS, GAS & WATER PIPES

Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27 or to suit background

 

LAMP POSTS & BRACKETS

Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

LAMPS

Outside -  Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

Inside - White

 

CAST IRON URINALS

Stalls - Tar Paint

 

Remainder - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

COVERED WCs

Stalls, Troughs etc - Tar Paint

 

Dado - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27 with 1 1/2" black line

 

Upper Part - Varnished Mock Granite

 

OPEN WCs

Stalls, Troughs etc - Tar Paint

 

Walls - Limewashed

 

PLATFORM SEATS

Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

CLOCK FRAMES

Light Brunswick Green BSS 25 or Black, heads & moulding gilded if required.

 

INTERNAL PAINT SCHEME

 

Window Sashes / Fanlights - Light Stone BSS 61 or Deep Cream BSS 53

 

Door & Window Frames - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

Styles, Rails & Skirtings - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

Walls & Screens - Dado about 1 ft high  - Light Brunswick Green BSS 25 with 1 1/2" Black line border;

                                Upper part to frieze (if any) -  Deep Cream BSS 53; Frieze (if any) or above

                                picture moulding - White

 

Panels, Dado & Picture Rail - Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

Ceilings, Cornices & Friezes - White

 

Fixed Waiting Room Seats - Dark Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

BOOKING HALLS

Ceilings & Friezes - White

 

Walls - Deep Cream BSS 53 or Eau-de-nil BSS 16

 

Plaster Dado - Dark Brown BSS 12

 

Woodwork - Oak Grained, overgrained and twice flat (antique) varnished

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For Signal Boxes, the colour scheme was the same as that for station buildings except for:

 

STAIRS - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

OTHER IRONWORK - Black

 

NAME BOARDS - Ground - Black with white inner and black outer border with white letters

 

BOX INTERIOR - To sill level - Dark Brown BSS 12 with 1 1/2" black border

                             Above Sill - Light Stone BSS 61

 

Of course whether your chosen example followed the guides is another thing entirely.

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2 hours ago, SP Steve said:

I have a copy of the LNER Schedule of Colours 1937 which used to be found on line courtesy of the London North Eastern E-Group (unfortunately web address is now defunct):

 

LARGE ROOFS, ROOFS OVER PLATFORMS, AWNINGS & VERANDAS

All woodwork above underside of capitals of columns inside / outside - Light Stone BSS 61 or Deep Cream BSS 53

 

All steel and ironwork above capitals of columns to underside of roofs - Sea Green BSS 17

 

High Columns - Bases deep Brunswick Green BSS 27, stems Brilliant Green BSS 21

 

Low Columns 8 ft or less to capital - To underside of capital Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

CORNICES, FASCIAS, BARGE-BOARDS / MOULDS TO SAME

Light Stone BSS 61 or deep cream BSS 53

 

DOORS, DOOR & WINDOW FRAMES (OUTSIDE)

Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

Styles & Rails - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

Panels - Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

WINDOW SASHES & FANLIGHTS

Light Stone BSS 61 or Deep Cream BSS 53

 

TIMBER STATION BUILDINGS

Body of woodwork - Light Stone BSS 61 or Deep Cream BSS 53

 

Dado Rail - Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

Frame & Baseboard - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

GUTTERS, SPOUTS, GAS & WATER PIPES

Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27 or to suit background

 

LAMP POSTS & BRACKETS

Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

LAMPS

Outside -  Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

Inside - White

 

CAST IRON URINALS

Stalls - Tar Paint

 

Remainder - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

COVERED WCs

Stalls, Troughs etc - Tar Paint

 

Dado - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27 with 1 1/2" black line

 

Upper Part - Varnished Mock Granite

 

OPEN WCs

Stalls, Troughs etc - Tar Paint

 

Walls - Limewashed

 

PLATFORM SEATS

Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

CLOCK FRAMES

Light Brunswick Green BSS 25 or Black, heads & moulding gilded if required.

 

INTERNAL PAINT SCHEME

 

Window Sashes / Fanlights - Light Stone BSS 61 or Deep Cream BSS 53

 

Door & Window Frames - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

Styles, Rails & Skirtings - Deep Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

Walls & Screens - Dado about 1 ft high  - Light Brunswick Green BSS 25 with 1 1/2" Black line border;

                                Upper part to frieze (if any) -  Deep Cream BSS 53; Frieze (if any) or above

                                picture moulding - White

 

Panels, Dado & Picture Rail - Light Brunswick Green BSS 25

 

Ceilings, Cornices & Friezes - White

 

Fixed Waiting Room Seats - Dark Brunswick Green BSS 27

 

BOOKING HALLS

Ceilings & Friezes - White

 

Walls - Deep Cream BSS 53 or Eau-de-nil BSS 16

 

Plaster Dado - Dark Brown BSS 12

 

Woodwork - Oak Grained, overgrained and twice flat (antique) varnished

 

I've seen that before and it's very useful for the LNER period.  However it refers to two shades of green, and if you look at Pickering station on the NYMR for example, that's how they've very nicely restored it.

 

But I don't recall seeing two shades of green on BR (ER) buildings that I can remember seeing myself, or have seen pictures of, even given that the green that was used could fade to an almost blueish/grey shade.  Which is one reason why I query the suggestion (that I've read elsewhere, including the web site linked above) that BR didn't repaint the buildings but left them in the state the LNER left them.  Quite apart from the fact that they repainted buildings in the green and cream that were taken over from companies other than the LNER, and presumably there would have been a certain amount of new build and alterations that they would have had to paint.

 

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2 hours ago, SP Steve said:

I have a copy of the LNER Schedule of Colours 1937 which used to be found on line courtesy of the London North Eastern E-Group (unfortunately web address is now defunct)

If it was a Yahoo group, these ended a few months ago but many of them went over to groups.io

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Thanks for all your replies which are much appreciated. It has certainly helped to answer the question. 

 

With Raunds Station the signal box was a washed out paler green on the timbers whilst Grafham certainly had a blue tinge like a North Eastern Region signal box. 

 

The Station Colours website is certainly a useful site and the information from Steve is helpful. 

 

By the looks of things there is a certain degree of variation in the colours over a period of time. 

 

Thanks to you all again

 

Cheers, 

 

Mark 

 

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