UTA Green Locos

[GSWR 90]

Following on from another thread about locos that CIÉ painted green, here’s one about locos that UTA painted green.

Generally when the UTA repainted locos, they painted them black. There were some exceptions – apparently a Jeep, a W, and a U2 painted in experimental apple green, Brunswick green, and olive green

 

This Jeep, No. 5, is apparently painted in “apple green”. You can clearly see that the lining is very bright and the tanks, cab, wheels, and boiler are much brighter than the black smokebox and chimbley

This W, 98, is apparently painted a darker Brunswick green

This BCDR loco, No. 21, is apparently pictured after overhaul in 1953 – it seems to be in kind of an olive green, and to me that doesn’t look like BCDR lining as it’s more white/green than yellow, especially compared to the yellow numbers. An experimental livery…?

Edited Thursday at 18:25 by GSWR 90

[Dunluce Castle]

I think a Jeep modelled in the experimental green livery would be very interesting to see. 
 

This was my model done a few years ago, with U2 class number 80 “Dunseverick Castle”, in dark olive green. 

[jhb171achill]

55 minutes ago, Dunluce Castle said:

This was my model done a few years ago, with U2 class number 80 “Dunseverick Castle”, in dark olive green. 

Great job, Nelson (as always!)

I am not sure whether this loco, in this livery had red connecting rods, though this became a UTA standard with their lined black livery, I'd need to check. But a superb job nonetheless!

6 hours ago, GSWR 90 said:

Following on from another thread about locos that CIÉ painted green, here’s one about locos that UTA painted green.

Generally when the UTA repainted locos, they painted them black. There were some exceptions – apparently a Jeep, a W, and a U2 painted in experimental apple green, Brunswick green, and olive green

This Jeep, No. 5, is apparently painted in “apple green”. You can clearly see that the lining is very bright and the tanks, cab, wheels, and boiler are much brighter than the black smokebox and chimbley

This W, 98, is apparently painted a darker Brunswick green

This BCDR loco, No. 21, is apparently pictured after overhaul in 1953 – it seems to be in kind of an olive green, and to me that doesn’t look like BCDR lining as it’s more white/green than yellow, especially compared to the yellow numbers. An experimental livery…?

That's BCDR green. The green carried by 30 in Cultra is co9mpletely wrong - it should look this colour. I think the lining was cream or pale yellow. It's still in BCDR livery, but has a new UTA plate. It nis possible, or even loikely, that the UTA's experimental dark shade was something broadlky similar to this, though the picture here shows it looking more "olivey" than it was.

 

Edited Friday at 00:01 by jhb171achill

[Tullygrainey]

It's often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is colour I would say. I've had surgery to one eye (to fix a macular hole) with the result that I have slightly different colour vision in each eye. The operated eye sees things cooler than the other one. So where does that leave me when it comes to assessing colour?  

[jhb171achill]

On 5/12/2025 at 11:23 AM, Tullygrainey said:

It's often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is colour I would say. I've had surgery to one eye (to fix a macular hole) with the result that I have slightly different colour vision in each eye. The operated eye sees things cooler than the other one. So where does that leave me when it comes to assessing colour?  

Not being funny it is probably best - if genuine accuracy is required - to engage the advice of a college with good colour memory…