Bill Hayles writes:
I rather think the previous [W&C] stock (1940 stock to be precise)
was delivered in Southern Railway Malachite Green. It would only
have been painted into NSE livery at the very end of its life.
And in between, it was (naturally) in British Rail blue.
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