Photographic grey
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Photographic grey, also known as works grey, was a paint scheme commonly applied to steam locomotives during the period before colour photography became commonplace. It was applied to allow sharper, m
Side-view builder's photo of a South Australian Railways narrow-gauge T class locomotive painted photographic grey in 1903
A 94 class locomotive of the Cambrian Railways painted in two shades of photographic grey to further pick out detail and with a variation on the company's livery.
Newly built 60163 Tornado in works grey paint in 2008
LNER Peppercorn Class A1 No. 60163 Tornado is a 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive completed in 2008 to an original design by Arthur Peppercorn. At the time of completion it was the first new build stea
Photographic grey
…brightly coloured prototype diesel locomotives in the 1950s and 1960s such as the British Rail DP1 and HS 4000 Kestrel. In 2008, when the newly built Peppercorn Class A1 steam locomotive Tornado was completed, it was painted in photographic grey. This was not primarily for photographic reasons, but to allow the testing and checking of the…
Tornado on the East Coast Main Line in 2016
Original Peppercorn A1 60155 Borderer in 1964
Tornado left-hand nameplate at York station in May 2009 showing the badge of RAF Leeming in Yorkshire, where RAF Tornado F3s were based until the previous month
Tornado right-hand nameplate showing the badge of RAF Cottesmore, Rutland