British Rail corporate liveries

The classic Rail Blue colours; a Class 40 locomotive (no. 40128) with blue and grey coaching stock at Llandudno in 1982

The history of British Rail's corporate liveries is quite complex. Although the organisation was associated with Rail Blue from the mid-1960s to the 1980s, a number of other schemes were also used, especially when it was split into operating units (or sectors) in the mid-1980s.