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The official colour specifications can be found at the website of Transport for London: [1] we use Pantone's own RGB values, because they are more stable than TfL's RGB and CMYK values. Full colour specifications, along with a list of sources used for its development, can be found at Template:London transit icons on the Wikimedia Commons.
The colour for the East London line, when it was part of the London Underground, is Pantone 137. [2] The colour for the Fleet line was Pantone 431: Pantone 432 was too easy to confuse with the Northern line. Full colour specifications, along with a list of sources used for its development, can be found at Template:London transit icons on the ...
The London Underground 1956 Stock consisted of three prototype units built before mass production ... and the interiors were given a blue and grey colour scheme to ...
The Central London Railway used colour illustrations in their 1905 poster, [324] and from 1908 the Underground Group, under Pick's direction, used images of country scenes, shopping and major events on posters to encourage use of the tube. [325]
The table below shows the changing use of colours since Beck's first map. The current colours are taken from Transport for London's colour standards guide, [26] which defines the precise colours from the Pantone palette and also a colour naming scheme that is particular to TfL. Earlier maps were limited by the number of colours available that ...
Introduced in 1965 and also known as Monastral Blue, the colour was defined by British Rail standards BR28/6001 (Airless spray finish) and BR28/5321 (Brush finish). [2] It was a dark, greyish blue tone which hid the effects of dirt well. The colour often appears inaccurately in photographs, generally appearing brighter and bluer than the real ...
Double green aspect on the London Underground. Flashing green – flashing green aspects are employed on the East Coast Main Line north of Peterborough . They were installed for 140 mph (225 km/h) running in connection with the testing of the new InterCity 225 electric trains, with a steady green limiting test trains to the normal speed limit ...
From the 1860s to the 1900s numerous schemes for underground railways through central London were proposed, often using similar routes. [a] Many of the schemes submitted to Parliament for approval as private bills included proposals for lines through the Charing Cross area with stations serving the South Eastern Railway's (SER's) Charing Cross mainline terminus and the area around Trafalgar ...