Trying to clarify the livery for this wagon. Coventry Railworks recently released an N-gauge/2mm resin kit and in the instructions state Freight Red Oxide for the 1939-1948 livery. This seems incorrect to me as, from all the sources I have read, for an unfitted revenue wagon this should correctly be Grey.
I will add that the kit's manufacturer refers for reference to a book by David Larkin on LNER wagons (that I do not have) which apparently has a very clear photo of one of these wagons and says that "it's definitely not grey as per the wooden ones".
My own search in Tatlow (4A, P112 ) shows such a clear ex-works photo and it does indeed appear much darker than grey might, however quite often I see ex-works photos which are similarly confusing (there is a fitted High Steel at Tatlow 4A p56 which from the picture one would guess grey but which should of course be red oxide... ) . Also note that Tatlow 4A, P111 has an ex-works picture of the prototype of the wooden body conversion alumina wagon where it is similarly difficult to judge the colour ( which seems generally understood to be grey).
Finally - the only colour photo on the web found so far is the one by Coventry Railworks so definitely deeper research is required,
Any thoughts?
Colin.
17T Steel Body Alumina Hopper Wagons - Livery
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