The classic Rail Blue colours; a Class 40 locomotive (no. 40128) with blue and grey coaching stock at Llandudno in 1982. The history of British Rail's corporate liveries is quite complex.

This page contains a list of colours used in previous/next station boxes on UK railway station (and related/similar) articles, believed to be up-to-date as of 26 December 2023. Some of the colours have templates (e.g. { {NXEA colour}}) which can be used to implement them.

The original official colours for BR passenger stock was crimson lower body with cream upper panels for main line stock, plain crimson for suburban stock. In 1957 there was a change to all-over maroon for both main line and suburban loco hauled coaches.

Nov 22, 2011 · While an indication of pantone references or standard colour references and a painting guide would be very welcome can we start with identifying when and for how long the BR regional paint schemes were in use.

Jan 9, 2016 · You can't give br a color. A possible solution would be to use some a custom class on an empty element and then style that element using CSS. For Example: HTML <span class="custom-br"></span> CSS.custom-br { display:block; width: 100%; height: 5px; background-color: #cb0009; /*change color*/ }

A pale green or a light stone color was a popular choice for stations regardless of the color of the external paintwork; in the days of gas lighting having light-colored internal walls was important, and for the same reason ceilings were usually white.

Splasher tops on the LMR, ER and SR were either green or black depending on the Works that painted them (Crewe and Doncaster always green), while on the WR they were generally black (except County splasher tops which were green).

The colour is often referred to as carmine, which traditionally is a very bright red. It is likely there were variations in the paint colour used in different coach workshops.

BR had many liveries over the years, including the famous BR Blue. Many of these liveries where trile liveries for the BR Corporate livery.

The original standard for BR departmental stock was black, this changed in the mid 1960's to red body work with black underframes and white lettering but this livery was not widely applied. This changed again in about 1967 to olive green, sometimes referred to as 'olive drab'.