British passenger car colors in 1948

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After the railways were nationalized, the color for many steam engines changed to blue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:60007_Handley_Road_Bridge.jpg

Does anyone know what color the passenger cars were painted to go with the new color? Or did GWR, LMS, and SR keep their passenger cars the same colors?

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Blood and Custard! (Crimson/Carmine & Cream) - This thread may help (Heywood Model Railway Group Forum)

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Thanks for the info. I did a search on

Hornby blood custard

and found plenty of cars to bid on.

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Keep in mind that in general railways in the UK didn’t paint their passenger cars to match their locomotive colors all the time…so say a green engine pulling maroon passenger cars etc. wasn’t uncommon. I think some railways even used different colors on different types of coaches (different classes) so you might regularly see more than one paint scheme on a train.

Remember too that I believe the BR blue steam engine scheme only was used for a couple of years before it was changed to what I think is called “malachite green” which is a fairly dark green - similar to automobile “British racing green”.