SR number BS (and undercoat)

Nº1 Light Stone BS381C shade 386 Champagne (BS381C shade 352 Pale Cream)
Nº1a Dark Stone BS381C shade 358 Light Buff (BS381C shade 361 Light Stone)
Nº2 White
Nº3 Dark Green BS381C shade 276 Lincoln Green (BS381C shade 282 Forest Green)
Nº3a Mid-Chrome Green BS381C shade 221 Brilliant Green (BS Nº3A Mid-Chrome Green)
Nº4 Light Green BS381C shade 217 Sea Green (BS381C shade 216 Eau-de-nil)
Nº5 Not allocated
Nº6 Black
Nº7 Pale Green BS381C shade 275 Opaline Green (BS381C shade 216 Eau-de-nil)
Nº8 Grey BS381C shade 652 Dark Admiralty Grey (BS381C shade 693 Aircraft Grey)
Nº9 Red BS381C shade 538 Post Office Red (BS381C shade 443 Salmon Pink)
Nº10 Deep Cream BS381C shade 352 Pale Cream (BS381C shade 384 Light Straw)

BR(S) STRUCTURES
BR(S)/E/2/1

Painting:
Stations (Platform Roofing)
Exterior of Valence: Stone Nº1a
Mouldings on valence: Green Nº3a
Interior of Valence, Underside of roof boarding, Underside of Glazing bars: Stone Nº1
Top side of glazing bars: Stone Nº1a
Platform Roofing Steel work, Principals, Purlins, brackets etc.: Green Nº4
Windows: Frames Green Nº3a, Sashes: White Nº2
Steel columns up to underside of longitudinal girders: Green Nº3a
Litter baskets: Green Nº3a
Concrete: self colour
Asbestos sheeting: self colour
Timber cross beams, Purlins and Rafters: Stone Nº1
Timber walls: Stone Nº1
Corrugated Iron - underside: Stone Nº1, topside: Grey Nº8
Exterior door frames and skirting: Green Nº3a
Galvanised items litter baskets, bins etc.: self colour
Gutters - exterior: Green Nº3a, interior: grey Nº8

BR(S)/E/2/2

Painting:
Stations (platform Roofing continued) Doors and windows in Hardwood oiled and wax polished as above if previously painted: Green no.3a with White no.2 sashes
Columns (cast) to capping: Green Nº3a.
Ornamental cast brackets: Green Nº4
Woodwork underside of canopy: Stone Nº1
Pipes and switch boxes: Green Nº3a

BR(S)/E/2/3

Painting:
Stations (Waiting room interiors)
Walls up to 4ft from floor: Green Nº3a
followed by 2 inch band: Cream Nº10
Followed by 1½ inch band: Green Nº3a
remainder of wall above: Cream Nº10
Radiators and pipes: Green Nº3a
Note the 1½ inch band omitted after 1957

Ceilings:
If no picture rail and a coving exists: Cream Nº10
If picture rail exists: Green Nº3a with white ceiling above.
Pictures or map frames: Green Nº3

Metal railings in platform areas: Green 3a
Wooden Railings in platform areas: Stone Nº1a
Clocks - if painted: Green Nº3a, if unpainted hardwood to be oiled and polished or re-varnished as necessary.
Timber or plaster walls in booking halls: lower 3ft 6in: Green Nº3a, 2 inch band: Cream Nº10, 1½in band: Green Nº3a, remainder above: Cream no.10
Poster and notice frames: Green Nº3
Ceilings if not already cream to be White
Doors and windows: Green Nº3a with White sashes
Ladies and Gents generally as waiting rooms, Cisterns, pipes and pipe casings to be Green Nº3a

Station exteriors
Wooden boarding to walls: Stone Nº1a
Notice and poster boards: Green Nº3
Metal lamp fittings: Green Nº3a
Handrails and fire escapes: Green Nº3a
Flagpoles: White

Signals: S&T noted to be responsible for painting signal arms (wooden) not the Civil Engineer's dept.
Enamelled signal boards not to be painted.
Bottom six feet of post: Black, rest White.
Spectacle plates, brackets and other iron work: Grey Nº8
Lamp Cases: Black Nº6
Dolls on gantry signals: White on semaphore signalling equipment.
Colour lights: Front of Display shield to be matt black, Backs to be Grey no. 8
All colour light signal posts and fittings: Grey Nº8
Ground frames in the open: Casing: Grey Nº8

Note states that Colours of levers and plates with lettering and figures ARE NOT PAINTED OUT OR ALTERED.

Painting :
Gates
To be painted similar colour to adjacent fencing usually Stone No 1 with metal fittings Black Nº6
Metal Gates: all Green Nº3a
Concrete posts: self colour
Level crossings: Gate and wire mesh to be White all other metal fittings to be Black except Red target.
Wicket gates: White

Painting of mile posts: All posts to be White with black figures
Gradient posts Timber - Letters and figures: White, arms and post: Green no.3a
Metal Gradient posts same as timber with addition of white border to arms if bead present on casting.
Concrete Posts: Post and arms self colour, letters: Green no.3a
Gang length posts: White with 18 inch red band 9inches from top of post.
If length post occurs at a mile post paint red band under the milepost plate.

Water taps in carriage sidings painted: White Nº2
All metal lamp posts: Green Nº3a
Only metal fitting to be painted Green Nº3a on concrete posts. ancillary buildings (lamp huts, grounded bodies traders stores staff lobbies.
Doors and windows as before
main colour of corrugated iron to be Green Nº3a in vicinity of station otherwise Grey Nº8.

Buffers
White beam with 5inch Red horizontal band.
all supports to be tarred when not in vicinity of platforms
in vicinity of platform to be: Green Nº3a
Hydraulic buffer casings to be: Green Nº3a with Red buffers, moving surfaces not to be painted
Lamp on buffer beams to be: Black Nº6
Target around lamp to be: White in sidings, and Red in terminal platforms

Miscellaneous
Point levers: White, but if point lever has a counterweight on the lever it is to be painted with a Red 2 inch band around the weight.
Guard Boards for stay wires: White if not already creosoted.
Water cranes: Grey Nº8 (except bag)
Point mechanisms and rodding: Grey Nº8
Battery and relay boxes: Grey Nº8, except in vicinity of Stations when they shall be: Green Nº3a

Cupboards
General use: Green Nº3a
Fire equipment: Red Nº9
Zinc covered tops: Self colour

Further information on a wider remit is available at: www.stationcolours.info