Locomotive Livery Profiles – SRA Candy Livery
The newly established State Rail Authority of NSW and been formed in 1981 superseding the former NSWR, they wanted a new image mainly brought on by the success of the visual impact that the XPT had on the public, the SRA wanted something similar of all their trains.
In late 1981, the SRA appointed ‘Phil Belbin’ to the project of designing this new image, under the direction of the Chief Executive ‘David Hill’ & the chief mechanical engineer ‘John Brew’, work commenced on designing and ironing out a new livery with a good visibility safety level.
Finally after 120 colour concepts were prepared and narrowed down to the chosen livery, known as the Candy livery (or other names Belbin or lollipop)
The scheme was an all over red body with a thin yellow stripe atop a thicker orange stripe atop a White stripe, with black under gear, and initially a silver roof (later grey, white, then all over red depending on the class).
The 1st item of rollingstock to see the light of day in this new livery was Economy class a/c carriage SFS2277 painted at Eveleigh Carriage Works in Mid July 1982.
The livery was officially released at 11.30am on 17th August 1982 at the public unveiling held on platform5 of Sydney Terminal – 44100, FH2230, SFS2277, TFX1935, MHS819, MHO2636 were displayed on this day.
The Candy scheme lasted as the main livery till 1992 when replaced by the Freight Rail blue livery, although from 1988 a simplified version known as the red terror livery emerged from Cardiff workshops applied to 4469, this scheme omitted the yellow & orange stripes, thus reducing the amount of time required to paint the units, and was used mainly on non front line locomotives (44, 45, 48, 49 classes), other locos of the 422, 442, 80, 81’s continued to receive the full candy livery.
During the 10 years that the Candy livery was the prominent livery the following locomotives carried this scheme.

421 Class – 42101, 42102, 42103, 42105, 42106, 42107, 42108
422 Class – 42202, 42203, 42204, 42205, 42206, 42208, 42209, 42210, 42211, 42212, 42214, 42215, 42216, 42217, 42218, 42219
44 Class – 4403, 4405, 4406, 4419, 4424, 4428, 4431, 4432, 4438, 4439, 4451, 4460, 4461, 4463, 4464, 4465, 4466, 4467, 4468, 4471, 4472, 4474, 4477, 4483, 4492, 4495, 4496, 4499, 44100
442 Class – 44201-44231, 44233-44240
45 Class – 4501, 4502, 4503, 4504, 4506, 4509, 4512, 4514, 4515, 4516, 4517, 4518, 4519, 4520, 4521, 4522, 4523, 4524, 4526, 4527, 4528, 4529, 4530, 4531, 4532, 4533, 4534, 4535, 4536, 4537, 4538, 4539
46 Class – 4607-4618, 4623-4630, 4632, 4635-4640
47 Class – 4701-4708, 4712, 4714, 4717, 4718, 4720
48 Class – 4808, 4811, 4827, 4833, 4838, 4839, 4841-4855, 4857, 4859, 4869, 4874, 4875, 4881, 4889, 4891, 48103, 48106, 48107, 48108, 48110, 48114, 48115, 48117-48120, 48122, 48124-48134, 48136-48142, 48144-48164
49 Class – 4902, 4903, 4905, 4907, 4908, 4909, 4910, 4912, 4913, 4914, 4916, 4918
70 Class – 7007
73 Class – 7301-7303, 7310, 7312, 7314-7320, 7322, 7324, 7325, 7327, 7328, 7331, 7335, 7336
80 Class – 8015, 8018, 8034
81 Class – 8101-8180
86 Class – 8601-8650
X100 Class – X101
X200 Class – X203, X204, X215



Railcars
100 – 101, 103, 104
600 – 602, 603, 604, 606, 607
620 – 621, 622, 623, 625, 626, 627, 628, 629, 630, 631, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638
660 – 661, 665, 668, 669, 670
700 – 702, 703, 704, 706, 707
720 – 721, 723, 724, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 735, 736, 737, 738
760 – 761, 765, 768, 769, 770
900 – 901-905, 907-910
950 – 951-959

Simplified scheme “Red Terror”


Only applied to locomotives that weren’t classified as front line locomotives
44 Class – 4401, 4420, 4427, 4438, 4447, 4448, 4454, 4456, 4458, 4464, 4469-4471, 4473, 4475, 4479, 4481-4487, 4489, 4490, 4492-4494, 4498, 44100
45 Class – 4505-4509, 4511, 4513, 4515, 4517, 4518, 4524, 4527, 4529, 4532, 4537-4539
46 Class - 4639
48 Class – 4801, 4802, 4804-4806, 4810, 4812, 4813, 4815, 4818, 4823, 4824, 4834, 4837, 4839, 4845, 4851, 4861, 4862, 4864-4867, 4872, 4873, 4877-4880, 4882, 4883, 4887, 4888, 4890, 4892-4897, 48101, 48102, 48104, 48105, 48113-48115, 48135, 48143
49 Class - 4906
73 Class – 7341, 7343