Re: FV livery

["Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>]

Sam Eades wrote in message <38A8A121.9AB30029@yahoo.com>...
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>Dave Proctor wrote:
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>> The February 2000 edition of Motive Power has a photo of T408 on page 10
in
>> FV green livery, but the green seems to be a lighter shade than that
applied
>> to other locos, particularly when compared with G522 on page 11.
>>
>> Is this the case in real (rail??) life or is it just a quirk of the
>> photographic/printing processes?
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>I saw a T and an X (both FV livery) coupled together and the colour is the
same,
>must have been the light?

Ok, thanks for that Sam - in my copy, it is definitely substantially lighter
than the G - although the caption does say it is in bright sunlight. I would
not have thought it would make that much of a difference though.

Dave