page_title: British Rail corporate liveries
section_title: Coaches and multiple units
hierarchical_section_title: British Rail corporate liveries / Rail Blue / Coaches and multiple units
caption_attribution_description: English: Class 416 train in British Railways blue/grey livery calls at Dalston Kingsland station, on a North London Line working. The NLL is both 25kV overhead AC and 750V third-rail electrified at this point.
context_page_description: The history of British Rail's corporate liveries is quite complex. Although from the mid-1960s to the 1980s the organisation was associated with "Rail Blue", a number of other schemes were also used, especially when it was split into operating units or "sectors" in the mid-1980s.
context_section_description: Corridor coaching stock and certain express multiple unit classes were painted in Rail Blue with a 44-inch Pearl Grey (BS 2660-9-095) horizontal panel centred vertically on the main windows, outlined by a narrow white line. This grey panel finished just short of the end of the coach leaving a small amount of Rail Blue which then continued round onto the end of the coach. Roofs were Dark Grey and underframes originally brown, but later black.
  Non-corridor coaching stock and other multiple units received all-over Rail Blue until about 1980, when most received the same blue/grey livery as corridor coaching stock.
  The 4REP and 3/4TC EMUs were a notable oddity, initially receiving all-over Rail Blue despite being express corridor stock. They were repainted into blue/grey in the early 1970s.
  From 1974, some DMU sets, after being refurbished, were painted white with a wide blue band under the windows and full yellow ends.
  From 1966 until withdrawal, Pullman Coaches were also painted in the reversal of the normal coach livery, with the blue and grey areas transposed. The Blue Pullman sets retained their livery of Nanking Blue (albeit with full yellow ends) until 1969 when they were repainted in the reversed grey and blue livery.
caption: Class 416 train in British Rail blue/grey livery calls at Dalston Kingsland station
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