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When did D380 get full Yellow Ends?


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Hi,

 

I am trying to date some negs taken at Mossley Hill between Allerton and Edge Hill (down the bottom of someones garden I think!). There are lots of EE type 4's in green with FYE, AL6's and some newly repainted EE type 4's in blue with no D's. However the interesting one is This D380 still with half yellow warning panel.

 

Does anyone know when this loco lost this livery either to get full blue repaint or FYE?

 

My current guess is the negs are 1969 this loco could change that...........

 

Cheers Tony

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There were one or two which kept their small yellow panels into 1972 as well, but (from hazy memory) I think they were disc headcode machines. Aside from that a large number of 40s had full yellow ends applied around 1970, and in this period Crewe Works were still doing complete repaints / patch up jobs in green so as to use up their paint stocks. They even carried on painting the buffer beams red on green 40s!

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I missed this first time round.....

 

I have it down as in GSYP until at least June 1969*, however D380 was one of those that had a enlarged yellow panel in March 1965, but it was the other end to your photo. Did it lose the large yellow panel I wonder? 380/40180 was also a green TOPS loco for a period in 1974.

2134090414_029c12d7d0_o.jpgR0073 - Rugby Midland by BarkingBill, on Flickr

 

Edit: * from one of your shots

http://www.rail-online.co.uk/p766079789/h17413FA1#h17413fa1

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