sentences:  Teddy Boston, a friend of the Marquess had a model of an Isle of Man locomotive that he had painted in LNER colours.This was shown to Ailsa in the spring of 1967, who liked it, and had 5, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 15 quickly repainted to match!Spring green became standard livery until nationalization, when the new Isle of Man Railways management decided to repaint the locomotives in a variety of colours to dispel the notion that there were only two engines on the line.