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*According to E.F. Carter, the GNR locomotive colour was "green of one shade or another";<ref name=Carter45>{{cite book |last=Carter |first=Ernest F. |title=Britain's Railway Liveries 1825-1948 |edition=3rd | date=January 1980 |origyear=1952 |publisher=Harold Starke |location=London |isbn=0 287 66989 0 |page=45 |ref=harv }}</ref> "bright, almost grass green";<ref name=Carter45 /> "green";{{sfn|Carter|1980|pp=46,47}} "light grass-green";{{sfn|Carter|1980|p=47}} "slightly yellower green than [a colour previously described as green]"{{sfn|Carter|1980|p=47,48}} or "bright green".{{sfn|Carter|1980|p=49}} I have thus settled on a colour {{colorbox|#00A550}} #00A550 identified as [[Variations of green#Pigment green (grass green)|Grass green]].
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*According to E.F. Carter, the GNR locomotive colour was "green of one shade or another";<ref name=Carter45>{{cite book |last=Carter |first=Ernest F. |title=Britain's Railway Liveries 1825-1948 |edition=3rd | date=January 1980 |origyear=1952 |publisher=Harold Starke |location=London |isbn=0 287 66989 0 |page=45 |ref=harv }}</ref> "bright, almost grass green";<ref name=Carter45 /> "green";{{sfn|Carter|1980|pp=46,47}} "light grass-green";{{sfn|Carter|1980|p=47}} "slightly yellower green than [a colour previously described as green]"{{sfn|Carter|1980|p=47,48}} or "bright green".{{sfn|Carter|1980|p=49}} I have thus settled on a colour {{color box|#00A550}} #00A550 identified as [[Variations of green#Pigment green (grass green)|Grass green]].
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 13:19, 29 September 2016

00A550


This is the hexadecimal colour code used for Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) lines.

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  • According to E.F. Carter, the GNR locomotive colour was "green of one shade or another";[1] "bright, almost grass green";[1] "green";[2] "light grass-green";[3] "slightly yellower green than [a colour previously described as green]"[4] or "bright green".[5] I have thus settled on a colour   #00A550 identified as Grass green.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Carter, Ernest F. (January 1980) [1952]. Britain's Railway Liveries 1825-1948 (3rd ed.). London: Harold Starke. p. 45. ISBN 0 287 66989 0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Carter 1980, pp. 46,47.
  3. Carter 1980, p. 47.
  4. Carter 1980, p. 47,48.
  5. Carter 1980, p. 49.