what’s interesting is that if you look at this EWS Class 66 you can see that the dirt arranges in patterns - dark uncombusted fuel on the roof, lighter trackside grime down the sides, then darker again on the wheels and bogies
when British Rail divided freight operations into sectors, one innovative thing they came up with was a livery intended to camouflage this as much as possible, called Triple Grey, that attempts to match that pattern. I think it works very well
what you don’t really want to do is to have a lighter colour on the lower half of the side, which British Rail did for uhhhh all passenger services
an enduring problem https://twitter.com/ciaraweerer/status/1095801794524078081
that said I can never be too mad at Network SouthEast because to me it is what a train looks like, and the way it has aged and faded in preservation is powerfully hauntological to me
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