Intercity APT-P colours

[60800]

Afternoon all,

    'Phoenix' - the former KD1 at Haigh Hall is nearing the end of a rebuild. I do not represent the railway, but from a number of suggestions, the APT-P livery has been chosen for the locomotive. 

 

I'm wondering if anyone would happen to know the exact paint colours that were used on the APT-P and it's branding 

 

Cheers,

 60800

[96701]

The first production Advanced Passenger Train was unveiled on 7 June 1978. It was painted in a new livery with dark grey upper body and light grey lower body separated by wide white and red bands. The roof was white to reduce solar heating, and a large 'InterCity APT' logotype was positioned on the dark grey section of the power cars – 'InterCity' had no hyphen and was solid white but the 'APT' was an outline.^[5] A new 'Executive' service was part of the relaunch of the InterCity Sector on 3 October 1983. This saw the coaches of the Manchester Pullman and two HSTs refurbished and repainted experimentally into the same colour scheme as the APT. The HSTs continued to carry an outline 'InterCity 125' logotype (now with no hyphen) and the large yellow area on the power car that had been a feature of the blue and grey livery. The logotype on coaches was positioned as before but changed to black.^[6] By May 1984 other coaches and locomotives were entering service in the dark and light grey livery. 87012 Coeur de Lion entered service with black numbers on the cab side but no logo. 73123 Gatwick Express had white numbers and a large double arrow logo on the dark grey of its bodyside, although the new Gatwick Express service was not operated by the InterCity Sector.^[7] In use there were problems with the light colour showing dirt on the diesel HSTs and so dark grey was extended from the roof to cover louvres near the top of the power car body, and the logotype was changed from an outline to solid white to make it more striking.^[8] The use of the term 'Executive' was dropped in 1985 and the livery was then referred to as just 'InterCity'.^[3]

 

^{Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCity_%28British_Rail%29}

[Steven B]

Executive Dark Grey

Executive Light Grey

Rail Red

Rail White

 

Lettering was in Rail Alphabet in either white or black.

 

Happy modelling.

 

Steven B.

[Flood]

Except it wasn't executive light grey for starters as that is more of a fawn colour and the APT light grey was nearer to rail grey but slightly darker.

 

I asked the question on the "improving the APT" thread but nobody came up with a definite answer.

[Karhedron]

The best I can suggest is visiting the real thing with a load of swatches for comparison. Of course you have a lot of weathering and fading to contend with so even that is not guaranteed to match the finish as new.