Odds and ends from a Hong Kong model kit, that make up a garage scene
Card kit of bus station
In real life, you can hardly read the menu. I find that I can find more detail using the close-up lens of my Vivitar digital camera.
If you project these prices from mid-1960s to mid-2000s, they come out about right, about $8 for pie, chips & tea
British Railways liveries and colours
A couple of years after the 1948 amalgamation of the big four railway companies in Britain, the new British Railways coaches were repainted in "blood and custard" for corridor stock and carmine for non-corridor. In 1956, regions could pick their own colours. Western Region chose GWR chocolate and cream, Southern Region went back to green, and the other regions were maroon. It's hard to try to pin down the livery of support road vehicles, but most of the models I have are in "blood & custard".
I have just one model BR bus in blue and cream (the Bristol in the picture) but I cannot find any others, even after spending quite a while searching the internet. I believe that blue and white may have been the livery for the Midland Region (ex-LMS) and/or North-East Region (ex-LNER) suport vehicles but I will keep looking. This model has an "M" as part of its fleet number, so this may mean "Midland".
In 1965 British Rail blue and grey was introduced. The use of blue and grey continued until 1982 when the first experiments in new liveries occurred.
