London 1970s Waiting room standard colour?

[Oxoboy]

Hi all, I'm slowly turning my layout room into a 1970s London Waiting Room, apart from the pee in the corner has anyone know what the standard colour was called?

its a great forum BTW, i only just joined, thanks for any help guys.

 

[randyrippley]

Hi all, I'm slowly turning my layout room into a 1970s London Waiting Room, apart from the pee in the corner has anyone know what the standard colour was called?

its a great forum BTW, i only just joined, thanks for any help guys.

won't it depend on the region? Which station were you thinking of emulating?

 

[Oxoboy]

Waterloo East, south london.

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won't it depend on the region? Which station were you thinking of emulating?

Waterloo East, south london.

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won't it depend on the region? Which station were you thinking of emulating?

so you dont know

 

[randyrippley]

Waterloo East, south london.

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Waterloo East, south london.

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so you dont know

No I don't know, though I'd guess at the usual green and white scheme applied to Southern Region stations.
But somebody else here probably will know, given time

 

[30907]

No I don't know, though I'd guess at the usual green and white scheme applied to Southern Region stations.
But somebody else here probably will know, given time

Memory says cream rather than white, but what exact shade I can't say - try the Bluebell or Watercress or Swanage perhaps?

 

[The exile]

I hope you’re including all of these essential “features”
The peeling paint
The damp patch (on the ceiling)
The heavy duty cobwebs
The single bar wall-mounted heater with a push-button switch - which switched itself off again just as you’d sat down.
…although tbh this is probably more 1980s style.

 

[W-on-Sea]

We'll need the stain (and stench) of cigarette smoke, too

 

[Roger1973]

I don't remember much before the late 70s, but think the BR corporate style had (generally) taken hold by then (no doubt there were exceptions that either didn't get repainted when they should have, or had 'local initiatives') and I only associate the green + white with preserved railways, which would be aiming at SR or BR (S) styles.

Think that plain white is unlikely, as would be relatively hard to keep clean, especially in an age when many people smoked. My best guess is a pale crud sort of colour, probably originally an off-white / cream sort of colour.

Kent Rail website might be worth a look as it has a lot of photos of SR stations, the only one that a google search gave with a waiting room picture was on the Dartford page, taken 1971, which has darker lower panels, but unfortunately is a black + white photo.

 

[Mr. SW]

Don't forget the thin layer of brake dust over every horizontal surface and every window outlined in grime, with a mysterious damp patch or puddle in one corner.

 

[30907]

Kent Rail website might be worth a look as it has a lot of photos of SR stations, the only one that a google search gave with a waiting room picture was on the Dartford page, taken 1971, which has darker lower panels, but unfortunately is a black + white photo.

Almost certainly green-painted woodwork - Dartford was due a rebuild so wouldn't have had a repaint in the BR corporate era.

 

[Clarence Yard]

The colour I remember from the 1970’s was what we called “Interior Grey”, which was a lightish grey colour used on the interior walls of offices, corridors as well as inside some stations. It was pretty well standard on the KX area of ER for quick 1970’s repaints.