It's certainly different.

Mustard for me too. Perhaps we could offer to pay for the re-paint!

I have always though a nice really dark blue would look nice, darker than No12's Thomas colour or a dark brown with gold and white lining, could this be a way to bring people over for a enthusiasts weekend later in the year.

On a more extreme idea how about several plasic or glass fibre mock ups of the engines around the Island or even the UK and get different groups, schools and companys to paint them like the cow parade or Super Lamb Bananas in Liverpool the other year,would be great publicity for the Islands railways and maybe raise some money for the railway or other charity

Mikel wrote on Jul 25^th, 2010 at 7:21pm:


You find that the pony truck lining on the axlebox covers has always been a feature.  The reason that they look black in pictures is oil spills, dirt and grime coving up the lining.

Although, there a couple of examples that didn't feature lining, but they are few and far between

When some of the locos were repainted into Ailsa green in 1967 none of them had pony truck lining. However, when No. 4 "Loch" was repinted in 1968 after reboilering, it appeared with pony truck lining and presumably this has been applied to all locos on subsequent repaints.

Generally I'm happy with the colour of the engines and caridges the way they are. Though I would like to see another bayer peacock in apple green to balance it out a bit.

fox6035 wrote on Aug 16^th, 2010 at 4:26pm:

Unlikely. The vexed question of correct liveries is a common point of discussion on a far wider variety of subjects than that of Ailsa Green. The traction engine and classic car worlds are probably the most well known.
The fact is that paint will loose its original colour over time. It is accelerated in sunlight but remains a problem whatever the conditions it exists in.
Add to this the hit and miss methods employed in mixing the paint at the time, not just in the paint shop but at the manufacturer aswell and it can be assumed that even in 1972, two engines in Ailsa green would show distinct differences in hue.

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In a perfect world, maybe. But in a perfect world we'd have the whole system as it was.....

It's the 21st century now....the IMR is now another tourist attraction which needs to attract families and tourists to survive - very little income is made from enthusiasts. If engines in different colours attract families ('we rode on the green/blue/red engine today!') then so be it....