A Class Livery Diagram - IRM Graphic

[Patrick Davey]

Folks during the time the IRM lads were keeping us updated with the progress of the A class, they produced a superb livery timeline graphic, showing how the livery each of the A class locos they would shortly produce fitted into the overall A class timeline.

I thought I had the graphic downloaded but it appears not, and the link from here in the forum isn't working - would anyone have it downloaded by any chance?

Cheers - I have also asked IRM directly.

[Wexford70]

Would welcome a copy as well.

[Mol_PMB]

This is my livery matrix for the A class, you'll need to download this or open it in a new window for it to be legible:

And the key:

Notes:

• It is very difficult to tell shades of green apart on photos, especially monochrome photos. I have not attempted to distinguish shades of green, only whether they had a waistline.
• I believe that most of the green locos with a waistline were light green, but a few were dark green. I believe that all green locos without a waistline were light green.
• On the matrix, if there's an entry in the cell then that corresponds to a dated photo of that loco in that livery. An exception is if the entry is in italics where the evidence is written rather than photographic.
• If there's no entry in a cell then I have either left it white, or if the same livery is known from before and after that year then I have carried the colour code over between the known years. 
• Some photo dates may be inaccurate. A43 in the mid-1960s is an obvious error on photo dates but I don't know which is wrong.
• I'm sure there are more photos out there that could fill some of the gaps, I've only looked through about 40,000 images to prepare this matrix...