L&Y Awning Colours

[Andy873]

I'm sure this will be an easy answer for someone.

Several B/W photos of L&Y stations show the sides of awnings, these wooden panels / planks alternate in a shorter piece then a longer one and so on. The shorter pieces are a darker colour, but what colour, would they have been? does anyone know - here I'm looking at around 1900 - 1910ish.

White & Brown? Cream & Green? etc

 

[Gloster]

This is really the sort of question that the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society can best answer.

 

[SquireBev]

This may be of some help:

London Midland and Scottish Railway | The Concrete Construction of Colorful Railway Stations

The LMS clearly did not see imposing a new corporate image in its stations as a priority, as until 1936 it continued to use the pre-group color schemes, gaining a reputation for shabby & run down looking stations in the process. In practice virtually no stations were repainted by the LMS before...

www.stationcolours.info

 

[Andy873]

This may be of some help:

Yes it was, thanks. Looking at the photos I have a colour scheme of Tan and Brown seems to fit for the sides of the awnings. That's a great help!

 

[WesternLancer]

I’ve heard the awning edges called Dagger Boards. Not sure if that’s a widespread accepted term or not.

 

[Andy873]

I’ve heard the awning edges called Dagger Boards. Not sure if that’s a widespread accepted term or not.

Never heard of them being called that but perhaps somewhere they were.

Attached is my drawing of an L&Y design used in 1877, and based on something similar to the colour scheme mentioned in the link (Reply #3), and B/W photos circa 1905-10.

Perhaps this might be a guide for a railway modeller...

A thing to note, at either end the sides finish with the longer pieces.

 

[The exile]

Never heard of them being called that but perhaps somewhere they were.

Attached is my drawing of an L&Y design used in 1877, and based on something similar to the colour scheme mentioned in the link (Reply #3), and B/W photos circa 1905-10.

Perhaps this might be a guide for a railway modeller...

A thing to note, at either end the sides finish with the longer pieces.

That’s certainly what the ones being replaced at stations in the Bristol area in the last couple of years have been called.

 

[WesternLancer]

Never heard of them being called that but perhaps somewhere they were.

Attached is my drawing of an L&Y design used in 1877, and based on something similar to the colour scheme mentioned in the link (Reply #3), and B/W photos circa 1905-10.

Perhaps this might be a guide for a railway modeller...

A thing to note, at either end the sides finish with the longer pieces.

Its certainly what the Railway Heritage Trust - call them - a report on them is linked:

http://railwayheritagetrust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1754-150_Examination-of-the-use-of-FRP_final.pdf

"Examination of the use of FRP for Station Canopy Fascia Daggerboards Prepared for Railway Heritage Trust, December 2018"