(02-09-2016, 09:46 PM)chrisjo Wrote: Briefly, it was originally LNER Apple Green, then black during WW2 (as with most other British locos). With nationalisation, it got the darker BR Brunswick Green scheme. After that in York National Railway Museum in wartime black again, and now still wearing flat black but due to be repainted LNER green sometime soon, I believe.
I just find this so interesting. And I also see on your link that the BBC has a few other videos on the restoration and the history. So glad you shared this with us.
