Tuesday 21 May 2013

Cliddesden 1925 - Staton Building

Stationcolours.info is a great resource for finding out about colour schemes of the British railway companies. I learned there that the early Southern Railway building colour was Middle Chrome Green BS381C shade 226. A colour swatch was found elsewhere on the web and our existing design file for the LSWR station building was modified from LSWR cream and brown to SR green.
The website suggested that the building colours did not change from the pre-grouping schemes until 1926. I have no evidence as to what/when Cliddesden was painted but at the re-opening ceremony in 1924 the new Southern Railway poster boards were present on the building and it is reasonable to assume these and the building were green.

These poster boards were not present on the earlier LSWR building so it has been interesting to do the research into poster styles of the 1920s. From left to right we have Brighton then Hayling Island, the B&ALR 1925 timetable and finally Isle of Wight.

The LSWR version.

David

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  1. familydesmond7 June 2013 at 17:27

    Ed I am interested that you have decided to paint the SR version of your SR period station building green. Whilst the source you reference is original the photograph of Bentworth & Lasham in 1925 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bentworth_%26_Lasham_Station.jpg appears to show the building in a lighter colour - looking at the contrast with the nameboard, doors and lampposts all of which would be green. Interested in your thoughts. Kevin

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    1. David Smith7 June 2013 at 19:56

      With hindsight the corrugated iron was probably lighter and possibly stone rather than dark green with doors, window frames, barge boards etc being the dark green.

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