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Random C&T related musings

  • 26-11-2010 10:39AM
    #1
    Cookie_Monster
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    Why were IR locos painted orange?

    Was it anything to do with the break up of CIE and subsequent colour schemes:

    Dublin Bus: Green
    Bus Eireann: White (mainly)
    Irish Rail: Orange

    orange to complete the flag colours?


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  • #2
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,477 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Visibility, I'd have imagined


  • #3
    corktina
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    in case they come at you sideways is it?:eek:


  • #4
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,567 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Neon-Circles wrote: »
    Visibility, I'd have imagined

    I wouldn't have thought so. Visibility reasons is why they added day-glow orange / yellow at a later date


  • #5
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,477 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Well, to me, I'd notice an orange train coming far sooner than I'd notice a silver one....


  • #6
    foggy_lad
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    Was it not some cheap paint that was leftover in the county councils around the country from painting the hard shoulder lines?


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  • #7
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,263 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Why were IR locos painted orange?

    Was it anything to do with the break up of CIE and subsequent colour schemes:

    Dublin Bus: Green
    Bus Eireann: White (mainly)
    Irish Rail: Orange

    orange to complete the flag colours?

    They were never painted orange; it's tan. So there :)

    The reason why they went with it was that they wanted a shade of orange to look well on both loco's and carriages alike. They tested several shades and the tan shade looked best so it was what they went with :)


  • #8
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,567 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    They were never painted orange; it's tan. So there :)

    The reason why they went with it was that they wanted a shade of orange to look well on both loco's and carriages alike. They tested several shades and the tan shade looked best so it was what they went with :)

    CIE was tan, Irish rail was orange ;)

    Black and Tan and supertrain liveries, would be tan (supertrain is considered orange too by many) and Irish Rail and Iarnrod Eireann would be Orange as far as I'm concerned. :)


  • #9
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,263 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    CIE was tan, Irish rail was orange ;)

    Black and Tan and supertrain liveries, would be tan (supertrain is considered orange too by many) and Irish Rail and Iarnrod Eireann would be Orange as far as I'm concerned. :)

    They still used tan bar for a few resprayed and refurbished Mark 2 and the International Set which were orange. But yeah, we all call it orange so I ain't fighting with you. Yet :)


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