Livery Edits

[Northroader]

Put a S on the front.

[IrishTrainScenes]

On 10/5/2026 at 6:58 PM, Northroader said:

Put a S on the front.

Will do that later

 

Anymore suggestions?

[Metrovik]

32 minutes ago, IrishTrainScenes said:

Will do that later

 

Anymore suggestions?

121 class in silver 1950s livery. Cc1 in black and tan??

[skinner75]

How about kettles in Black & Tan livery?

[LNERW1]

22 hours ago, Metrovik said:

121 class in silver 1950s livery. Cc1 in black and tan??

121 in the current dark grey 071 livery would also be an interesting one! Maybe a Mk3 set in 26xx/2800 style silver and green?

[StevieB]

Wasn’t the RPSI preserved 121 painted in this livery for a brief period of time?

Stephen

[Metrovik]

32 minutes ago, StevieB said:

Wasn’t the RPSI preserved 121 painted in this livery for a brief period of time?

Stephen

I was thinking that too but couldn't find a picture....

[Flying Snail]

3 minutes ago, Metrovik said:

I was thinking that too but couldn't find a picture....

Few pics of it here in @Westcorkrailway's thread: 

Edited Tuesday at 20:58 by Flying Snail

[Westcorkrailway]

8 minutes ago, Flying Snail said:

Few pics of it here in @Westcorkrailway's thread: 

I forgot about that….good times….cause quite a stir back in the day 

 

nearly half a decade later, and it’s still not out! 
 

anyway I tried chat gpt earlier for livery edits, didn’t go so well! 
 

what I want to see most is an 071 in inciting green (like the livery on the mark 4s / 201s) as I saw one like this in an RSA book once 

 

the other thing I’d quite like to see is 121 /141 class in 1960s light green with eau de nil waste and 

[jhb171achill]

7 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I forgot about that….good times….cause quite a stir back in the day 

 

nearly half a decade later, and it’s still not out! 
 

anyway I tried chat gpt earlier for livery edits, didn’t go so well! 
 

what I want to see most is an 071 in inciting green (like the livery on the mark 4s / 201s) as I saw one like this in an RSA book once 

 

the other thing I’d quite like to see is 121 /141 class in 1960s light green with eau de nil waste and 

Bogies silver as well...............

 

19 minutes ago, Flying Snail said:

Few pics of it here in @Westcorkrailway's thread: 

Must say I really liked this. I've two grey and yellow 121s. Thinking cap on, activated.....

[Westcorkrailway]

4 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Bogies silver as well...............

 

 

it took like 5 prompts to chat gpt to get it to that point…..I’ve run out of my daily limit! 

[jhb171achill]

Just now, Westcorkrailway said:

it took like 5 prompts to chat gpt to get it to that point…..I’ve run out of my daily limit! 

And proper Irish carriages...... and the paler green livery!  And and and 

 

[IrishTrainScenes]

On 11/5/2026 at 8:04 PM, Metrovik said:

121 class in silver 1950s livery. Cc1 in black and tan??

Yellow / Silver?

[Metrovik]

12 minutes ago, IrishTrainScenes said:

Yellow / Silver?

A class shiny (but usually dirty) silver please!

[Westcorkrailway]

23 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

And proper Irish carriages...... and the paler green livery!  And and and 

 

Basically it’s going to take so much effort to do it right, I may as well learn how to photoshop

 

How about this for alternate history (yes it’s got handrails and the livery wouldn’t have looked like this) but it gives an idea…

 

[Mol_PMB]

Those look very smart!

Tomorrow I’ll dig out my colour images of D class in dark green as a comparison to the first one. 
I think the 1958 light green is more plausible given when they were delivered. Maybe add red bufferbeams? 
 

I found a written reference to some 121s getting red bufferbeams when in grey/yellow, but haven’t found a photo yet. 

[Westcorkrailway]

1 minute ago, Mol_PMB said:

Those look very smart!

Tomorrow I’ll dig out my colour images of D class in dark green as a comparison to the first one. 
I think the 1958 light green is more plausible given when they were delivered. Maybe add red bufferbeams? 
 

I found a written reference to some 121s getting red bufferbeams when in grey/yellow, but haven’t found a photo yet. 

I have a photo of red buffer beams on a grey livery one somewhere…I think it was 127…

 

id like to believe there is a universe where 121s are delivered in CIE light green. I would think red buffer beams and black beneath that, maybe an eau de nil waistline too…

 

I have run out of chat gpt attempts for today trying to make a 141 look ok in CIE 1958 green…not sure how it managed to come out as deformed as that  

 

 

[Mol_PMB]

Having had a quick search I agree with B127 as seen here:
https://flic.kr/p/2pqXouh

 

https://flic.kr/p/2qEu9zb

I think B123 has red bufferbeams here too:

https://flic.kr/p/2pwAE5Y

 

 

[Westcorkrailway]

11 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Having had a quick search I agree with B127 as seen here:
https://flic.kr/p/2pqXouh

 

https://flic.kr/p/2qEu9zb

I think B123 has red bufferbeams here too:

https://flic.kr/p/2pwAE5Y

 

 

I had a colour picture years ago, appear to have lost it. Will try and find it now…

[IrishTrainScenes]

What about.... DD set in NIR 1990s livery? and IE 

[Mol_PMB]

13 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I had a colour picture years ago, appear to have lost it. Will try and find it now…

Tom Ferris Irish Railways in Colour vol.2 p42, it’s rather distant but definitely red. 

[Westcorkrailway]

6 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Tom Ferris Irish Railways in Colour vol.2 p42, it’s rather distant but definitely red. 

Found it

[Mol_PMB]

4 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Found it

Thanks! The one in the Tom Ferris book is B123.

The written reference is in IRRS journal 37 (June 1965) which says:

"Several more of the earlier (single-cab) G.M. locomotives have been repainted in the grey/yellow livery, and look very well, especially when this is embellished by bright red buffer-beams."

It's interesting that these did not get the BnT livery at this time. The 121s had been one of the vehicles for which drawings were sent to Signa (designers of the BnT scheme) but they had struggled to make their scheme suit it. After describing the application to an A class,

"The other one [i.e. the other loco, the 121 class], which makes no pretence to streamlining, has been treated purely as a machine. But the scheme could be carried through to the cab only."

The red buffer beams would make an interesting livery variation on a model. 

[Mol_PMB]

Some 'shunter-shaped' locos in green which might be compared to your green B121s.

Colour Rail slide IR637 shows a dark green D class in colour:

This IRRS image is a nice colour view of 1004 in dark green:

MMR_CIE_1004_Inchicore_11_July_1963 | [Photographer: Michael… | Flickr

The only other colour image I've found in this livery is in the background here:

MPC_CIE C216 Inchicore 22_Aug_1964 | [Photographer: Michael … | Flickr

There are of course many monochrome photos of them, such as these two examples:

RNC_CIE_1000_Inchicore_11_Aug_1948 | [Photographer: Robin N … | Flickr

RNC_CIE_1001_Inchicore_22_Apr_1948 | [Photographer: Robin N … | Flickr

The last link shows some fine lining round the edge of the front panel which appears more clearly in some other images.

 

Only one of the D class D303 was painted in light green (with black roof) and it was one of the locos displayed at the 1958 Inchicore Works event. Quite a few locos were repainted especially for that event, which represented the end of Bulleid's time as CME, hence the end of silver/aluminium on locos and coaches, and a reversion to green. The dates on the images of D303 in light green suggest that it may have got the livery a bit earlier than 1958.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/54336333309