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