LMS Route: Water Orton to Walsall

Streetly Station: mrst1138b

Close up showing the unidentified MR tank engine at the head of a rake of clerestory coaching stock. Both the locomotive and the coaching stock would be carrying the very distictive MR crimson lake livery. On the coaches it would be: Body sides and ends crimson lake; moulding black; edges of mouldings on sides only lined gold (no lines against window bolection moulding. or extreme outer edges); end moulding unlined. Window bolection moulding and door droplight frames may at least at first have been varnished mahogany rather than crimson lake. Solebars, headstocks and buffer bodies unlined red/brown until 1912, then black. Wheel centres possibly Indian red when new. All other fittings below the solebars black, except that dynamos when new appear ‘to have been a lighter colour, probably aluminium grey. Roof and roof fittings light grey, though some sources suggest that the lower roof below the rainstrip may have been varnished black when new, after a short period in service the entire roof would in any case have become dirty dark grey. Courtesy of 51L / Chowbent 4mm.

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