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    TIME TRAVELLER

    Nov 12, 2019 3 minutes

    50 YEARS AGO...

    DECEMBER 1969

    ■ After four years’ experience with the new blue paint being used on rolling stock, British Railways found its performance had not proved as satisfactory as hoped. So BR’s Research Department developed a much higher gloss blue paint known as Uro-Alkyd for the top coat, and this was trialled for more than a year on all repaired locomotives that required painting. Service trials with coaching stock included LM Region locomotive-hauled vehicles painted at Derby and Wolverton

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