cypherman Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 (edited) Hi all, I have acquired 3 Damaged Ration GWR 4 wheeled coaches. I have replaced the missing buffers and am about to start on the underframes that have damaged footboards. But what I really want to know is what colours should the roofs be.. The are currently mainly white white, But the gap between the edge and the rain strips has been painted brown. Should the roofs be all white. Or could they be grey or black? Any ideas would be gratefully received. Edited July 10 by cypherman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted July 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10 Even if they were white, they would have gone grey from soot etc pretty quickly. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 http://www.gwr.org.uk/pannier-pics/1976-radley.jpg 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCB Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 33 minutes ago, Miss Prism said: http://www.gwr.org.uk/pannier-pics/1976-radley.jpg Coaches were repainted quite frequently in the 20th century, Given stability they would be re varnished but when liveries changed they would be repainted as well. 4 or 5 liveries in the life of the coaches was quite common. @Miiss Prism's photo has an 850 pannier lettered "Great Western" in full and coaches in simplified Chocolate / Cream livery so post 1923 and apparently grey roofs.. IPre 23 and post circa 1907ish it would have been red or brown livery and from new fully lined paneled chocolate and cream .In that era the side to rain strip may have been brown. Roof would have been canvass over wood It looks to me like the footboards have been simplified, Might be wrong, somewhere 1880 ish board of trade decided foot boards were a good idea and mandated them then quietly forgot about them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 (edited) http://www.gwr.org.uk/nopanniers.html#:~:text=Cute. Open-cabbed 1976 at Radley in 1931%2C http://www.gwr.org.uk/nopanniers.html#:~:text=Cute. Open-cabbed 1976 at Radley in 1931%2C Edited July 10 by Miss Prism 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 Oh, the 'copy link to highlight' function doesn't seem to be working anymore. Anyway, that pic is 1931. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Smith Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 Try exploring this https://gwrcoaches.org.uk 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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