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00A550
This is the hexadecimal colour code used for Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) lines.
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.
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carter 1980, p. 45.
- ↑ Carter 1980, pp. 46,47.
- ↑ Carter 1980, p. 47.
- ↑ Carter 1980, p. 47,48.
- ↑ Carter 1980, p. 49.
References
- Carter, Ernest F. (1980) [1952]. Britain's Railway Liveries 1825-1948 (3rd ed.). London: Harold Starke. ISBN 0 287 66989 0. Unknown parameter
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