Editing LMS Coronation Class (section)

==== Post-1942 ====
[[File:6233 Duchess of Sutherland hauling the Yorkshire Coronation to Scarborough.jpg|thumb|No. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland in preservation turned out in LMS Black.]]

Black was the overriding colour for this period, with one exception. Streamlined locomotives Nos. 6245–6248 were outshopped at Crewe in 1943 painted plain black.{{r|Haresnape|p=138}} The following two batches, Nos. 6249–6255, constructed without streamlining, were also painted unlined black; the lettering and numerals on all these locomotives was in serif style coloured yellow with red shading.{{r|Haresnape|p=138}} From 1946 onwards de-streamlined locomotives were mostly repainted in black with LMS-style lining. The lining comprised a broad maroon centre with fine straw yellow edging. Lettering and numbers were in a sans-serif Grotesque font, coloured yellow with an inner maroon line.{{r|Haresnape|pp=140–141}} By the end of 1947, 29 of the 37 locomotives were painted thus.{{r|Baker|p=64}}

The one exception to black was No. 6234 ''Duchess of Abercorn'' which in 1946 was painted in a blue-grey colour.{{r|Hunt|pp=105, 143, 166}}{{r|Jennison|p=49}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Binns |first=Donald |year=1988 |title=LMS Locomotives at Work - 2, Coronation Class 4-6-2 |publisher=Wyvern Publications |location=Skipton |isbn=0-907941-32-X|page=18}}</ref> This represented the proposed post-war livery and the lining, painted on one side of the locomotive only, comprised a pale straw yellow line along the running plate with yellow and black edging to cab and tender. Lettering and numerals used a sans-serif font.{{r|Haresnape|p=139}}{{r|Jenkinson|loc=Plate 73}}