Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways/Colours list

Colours supplied by template

I'd like to suggest that where there is a template to provide a colour, the explicit value of the colour should not be listed here. Example: I'm suggesting that

• National Express East Anglia - █ #305E7F ({{NXEA colour}})

should be replaced by

• National Express East Anglia - █ #{{NXEA colour}}

(* [[National Express East Anglia]] - <font color="#{{NXEA colour}}">█</font> #{{tl|NXEA colour}})

This will encourage use of the template (and if anyone really needs to know the RGB value, they can open the template.--Dr Greg (talk) 13:03, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Fair point. I've made a few modifications to the page to try and encourage their use (but I've kept the RGB values in anyway). --RFBailey (talk) 01:31, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Cross Country

Why is XC red (and same as Virgin and SWT)? Surely it should be pink/purple/move like its livery, branding and website. Btline (talk) 10:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

It is not the same shade of red.

• CrossCountry - █ #C80815

compared to

• South West Trains - █ #FF0000
• Virgin Trains (VWC) - █ #FF0000

Simply south (talk) 11:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, they are slightly different (but at a glance.....!). But my main point still stands. Why is not XC pink/move/purple? Btline (talk) 15:18, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Don't know really. Simply south (talk) 17:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Scottish Colours

As part of my ongoing work on the Scottish Railway lines, I have tabulated and created templated for the scottish colours. A clear definition for the HR and GNoSR colours needs to produced. I have adopted the commonest colour used, although there are several colours being used.

Examples of usage in the Historical Route boxes are provided at WP:HSR#Pre-grouping company colours --Stewart ^(talk) 13:11, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

BR Rail Blue

One colour that I have notices that is missing is a "standard" for British Rail’s Rail Blue. While it isn't of much use in station succession boxes, it would be useful for the title bar of {{Infobox Train}}. Is there already an agreed standard somewhere? If not, I would propose #003366 or #336699, or something in between. Iain Bell (talk) 12:13, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

southeastern

I really do think the boxs need to be bule after all it's been three years since Southeastern started but we still have yellow in the boxes. I propose LightSteelBule (colour code: B0C4DE) in the boxes which produces this:

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dunton Green		Southeastern South Eastern Main Line via Paddock Wood		Hildenborough

This represents Southeastern as all their stations, publications and logos have bule in them.

This is the current version:

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dunton Green		Southeastern South Eastern Main Line via Paddock Wood		Hildenborough

Southeastern's branding is not yellow, that was South Eastern Trains it needs to change! Likelife (talk) 21:00, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Quite agree. Btline (talk) 22:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

East Coast

As East Coast (train operating company) starts on the 14th November, I was wondering if the NXEC colour will stay the same with East Coast or should it be changed.Likelife (talk) 16:45, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

NXEA

{{NXEA colour}} has been moved to {{Greater Anglia colour}} and the colour changed. Is it just me or would it not have been better to have retained the old colour and created a new template? Lamberhurst (talk) 21:18, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Probably; but I think that it's too late to revert now. I have dropped a line at User talk:JaJaWa. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:06, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

West Yorkshire Metro

I would like to see the colours here Template:WYM_color added to the list if they can be. Is there a reason not for them to be included? Nathan A RF (talk) 20:33, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

TfW colour

Should TfW not be #FF0000 as per their logo, site, trains etc? Where does orange come into play with their branding.

I have changed it for the time being but feel free to revert if there is some alternate reasoning. SageWater (talk) 10:19, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

East London line colour

It looks like someone has duplicated the Piccadilly line colour onto the East London line. Should it not be #F3BA22? Sorry to point it out and not fix it, but I've no idea how to not mess it up! ShoreditchHighStreet (talk) 22:23, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

@ShoreditchHighStreet: The underlying code that determines colours is fine (if you're interested, it's at Module:Adjacent stations/London Underground), it's just this list that is in error - it went wrong at 22:50, 5 October 2022 (UTC) with this edit by Frietjes (talk · contribs) and the fix is easy.

As to why it was apparently showing Piccadilly blue: it so happens that the default, used when an invalid line name is supplied, is #10069f. Whilst this is the Piccadilly Line colour, it's also the colour of the bar across an Underground station roundel. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:56, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Glasgow Commuter Lines

Some of these lines are the same colour. Is this a mistake, or are those the actual line colours? Furness804 (talk) 11:23, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

@Furness804: The colours are set in Template:National Rail colour. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:44, 30 January 2024 (UTC)