On 20 Apr., 11:12, D7666 wrote:


You may have noticed LU's battery maintenance locos do have yellow panels...

Chickens and eggs? The choice of yellow may have been influenced by
the need to operate over NR tracks, and not just the obvious tube
routes, but occasionally, in the past, on other jobs.


LU service trains have traditionally been yellow, not just on the
front ends but all over. See for example the tunnel cleaning train.

On Apr 20, 10:31*am, amogles wrote:
On 20 Apr., 11:12, D7666 wrote:



You may have noticed LU's battery maintenance locos do have yellow panels...

Chickens and eggs? The choice of yellow may have been influenced by
the need to operate over NR tracks, and not just the obvious tube
routes, but occasionally, in the past, on other jobs.

LU service trains have traditionally been yellow, not just on the
front ends but all over. See for example the tunnel cleaning train.

I dispute that.

They were traditonally maroon or grey or green.

Yellow is relatively new, I'd be 99% sure they never used yellow
until well after BR started. DL81 -83 came to Lu in ?1969 ? 1970 ? and
they were green not a shade of a yellow panel on them.

Yes, some have been yellow for a long time now, but ''traditional''
no.

--
Nick

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:46:13 -0700 (PDT), D7666
wrote:

On Apr 20, 10:31*am, amogles wrote:
On 20 Apr., 11:12, D7666 wrote:



You may have noticed LU's battery maintenance locos do have yellow panels...



LU service trains have traditionally been yellow, not just on the
front ends but all over. See for example the tunnel cleaning train.

I dispute that.

They were traditonally maroon or grey or green.

Yellow is relatively new, I'd be 99% sure they never used yellow
until well after BR started. DL81 -83 came to Lu in ?1969 ? 1970 ? and
they were green not a shade of a yellow panel on them.

The battery Locos have recently been mentioned on a North American
model group as a counter claim to a Magazine description which reckons
that the battery Loco has just been invented over there.
The Wikipedia link I read from there has an unverified claim that the
maroon colour was using paint from the Steam fleet. Not sure if they
mean there was surplus paint or that the colour was chosen to match.


G.Harman

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The Wikipedia link I read from there has an unverified claim that the
maroon colour was using paint from the Steam fleet. Not sure if they
mean there was surplus paint or that the colour was chosen to match.

Maroon before the war, grey during the war, and maroon afterwards until
the early 80s, maybe? Maroon was the general "locomotives" colour.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 20 Apr, 19:46, D7666 wrote:
On Apr 20, 10:31*am, amogles wrote:

On 20 Apr., 11:12, D7666 wrote:

You may have noticed LU's battery maintenance locos do have yellow panels...

Chickens and eggs? The choice of yellow may have been influenced by
the need to operate over NR tracks, and not just the obvious tube
routes, but occasionally, in the past, on other jobs.

LU service trains have traditionally been yellow, not just on the
front ends but all over. See for example the tunnel cleaning train.

I dispute that.

They were traditonally maroon or grey or green.

Yellow is relatively new, I'd be 99% sure they *never used yellow
until well after BR started. DL81 -83 came to Lu in ?1969 ? 1970 ? and
they were green not a shade of a yellow panel on them.

Yes, some have been yellow for a long time now, but ''traditional''
no.

--
Nick

Here is one of their departmental vehicles, an Electic Sleet
locomotive in Acton Works in 1981 in the marron livery

http://tonyhunter2814.fotopic.net/p3144135.html

Tony