Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on April 28, 2003 at 09:23:23 from 62.252.32.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Chronology of PM-Crewe posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on April 26, 2003 at 14:19:48:
The train certainly would have been LMS and the carriages at that date wete certainly crimson lake. I'm not so sure about the engine colour - after 1928 only first class passenger engines were red, the rest being black with or without lining. Furthermore this area is firmly in the territory of the glorious pre-1923 London & North Western Railway which painted its engines black. LNWR men hated the the former Midland Railway and its red livery so that any engine which could be black was black. Would the Lakes Express or whatever it was called then have justified a 'first class engine'? Certainly if there were only a couple of through coaches taken off a Scotch express then the branch line engine would have been black.
The locomotive shown early in Pigeon Post (probably on a later train) doesn't help at all - it looks nothing like anything that ever came out of the LNWR, MR or LMS!
Pity AR didn't use his practice of basing his drawings on photographs here!