Railway goods yard cranes - what colour would these have been?

[Wexford70]

Would any of the learned community have any information as to what colours stationery manual goods cranes would have carried when delivered in the late 1800s? Would different companies have had different colours or were they all grey?

 

[jhb171achill]

8 hours ago, Wexford70 said:

Would any of the learned community have any information as to what colours stationery manual goods cranes would have carried when delivered in the late 1800s? Would different companies have had different colours or were they all grey?

 

Mostly red oxide (red lead), black or grey.

It is possible that some had them in their “house” colours - few details of which have survived from that period. 

The GNR at one time had varying shades of brown, while IF the MGWR painted such things, it would have been bright red.