17T Steel Body Alumina Hopper Wagons - Livery
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 3:08 am
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.
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.