Excellent additions Mr Venkatraman.Gopalakrishnan
On Monday, 4 September, 2023 at 07:01:30 am IST, venkat raman
<[email protected]> wrote:
Namaste. Orange is a striking color. The lifebuoys, Orange smoke are used at
sea. The rescuers can see from far off. Even the colour of the black-box of an
aeroplane is orange.
Venkataraman
On Sat, 2 Sept 2023 at 13:35, gopala krishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
Respected friends,
My earlier posting on the subject has a lot of grammatical errors and missing
of words. On reading the posting I found the changes made were not saved and
got posted.
I paste below the corrected copy. Sorry for the oversight.Gopalakrishnan
WHITE and ORANGE
Dear friends,
This writing is based on arrival of eight coaches with engine of mainly
orange colour painted VANDE BHARATH express, first batch of mainly orange
colour on body from ICF Chennai at Mangalore Railway station. So inside seating
andpainting also will have orange reflection. Earlier coaches are mainly blue
in colour.
The orange colour gives more external appearance.
Probably while going for repainting all old bogies may also berepainted in
orange colour on body. There are also possibilities of next batchof Vandebharat
train with parrot green and another batch with sindoor colourmay arrive. These
colours are also beautiful.
In my boyhood days there was no discrimination in bodycolours. All trains had
dark browncolour body. No stripes. Coaches with wooden body were there, but
mostly withsteel body. I have recollection of coach numbers etc. written in
white colour.
Sitting benches and sleeper berths were with woodenplanks.
I studied in middle school class about first five yearplan, in which the ICF
factory at Chennai, Perambur for building coaches was told. Later while coming
to Madras (presentChennai) I could see the beautiful coaches manufactured and
kept aligned near Villivakkam in a railway strip. Some ofthe coaches were for
import even at thattime.
Only steam engines were there, it was common ashes from coal fall on body, eye
whilelooking forward. ..
When stripesstarted it was yellowish in colour. Allidentification letters
were also in yellow colour, the same yellow colour usedto mark coach numbers,
type of coach etc.
Most Goods wagons still have dark brown colour thoughsome come with grey and
light green colours on the body.
When Blue mountain express was introduced it had blue asbody colour. When
Brindavan express was introduced it had green as body colour. The reputation
of Blue mountain expressstill continues with AC coaches whereas Brindavan
express has lost oldprestige. It simply runs as a slow express train without AC
chair car, afterthe introduction of Chennai- Bangalore Double Decker express.
About a decade back or still earlier, decision wastaken by railway ministry to
change thecolour of all coaches to light blue. All coaches when gone for
painting,repainted in light blue colour.
Later a decision was taken to have the colour of thecoaches depend on the type
of train. Socoaches again got repainted in the order whether they are express,
superexpress, passenger etc. Most of the express trains came with painting from
windowupwards in yellow colour.
Later ministry started permitting Companyadvertisements in the coaches. It
became difficult even to note the coach number. Still theadvertisements
continue in double decker trains between Chennai and Bangalore.We can watch
actor Jeyaram in Ramraj cotton dhoti advertisement covering most of the body
of a coach. Similarly inner wear banianadvertisements.
Engines changed from steam to diesel by about 1975’s. Engines changed to
electrichauling after electrification of theroutes. Still certain routes have
dieselhauling. About a month back my daughter told me about the travel in the
train with diesel engine betweenMangalore and Bangalore.
Seats changed from planks to cushion. The width of thecushion seat/berth and
depth depends onthe type of class.
The elimination of first class and second class andappearance of 3rd AC was a
major change.
While thinking about body stripe colours, nationalisedand other banks also use
some uniform stripecolours in their offices for general painting and counters.
Bank of Baroda uses orange stripe colour and lightyellow as major colour .
State bank of India uses blue colour stripes and whiteas major colour. Canara
bank uses sky blue colour stripes. Karur Vaisya bankuses dark green colour
stripes to quote some. Indian overseas bank also useslight blue colour stripes
with light yellow as main colour.
Gopalakrishnan 2-9-23
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