Paul, Ref Signal lamps on Brit locos.
Depends what the loco is doing: There are many variations of headlamp codes, It's complicated. I have a list I can snail mail it to you or try and scan it. Or, if you tell me what duties the tank is going to perform I can probably pick out the closest lamp arrangement for you. For example a Freight , mineral or ballast train stopping at intermediate stations has one lamp above the right buffer (looking from the cab). That might suit you--only one lamp to lose too! Personally, I identify all my locos as express passenger, no matter what they do, that way I don't get anymore befuddled than I already am and these colonists don't know a lamp from a buffer anyway--except Keith Taylor and Harry Wade--and Walt Gray????!! Who am I to know! My source is from a G1MRA publication some years ago--as I recall. Geoff ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Walt Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Absolutely. English locomotives did not have headlights. They >carried >> various combinations of signal lamps on the front of the loco to >> indicate the class of the train i.e. express passenger, stopping goods >> (freight) etc. >> >Hi Walt, >Of course, like everything else, you can never say that is the case >100%. There are exceptions, (although probably not on a tank locomotive) >but in a very few specific cases, locomotives like the LMS Royal Scot or >the Great Western Railways King George V, these locomotives were brought >over to the USA to operate on American railways, where they were >required to have headlights, bells and whistles to operate on Class 1 >common carrier main lines. At least the GWR King George V continued to >utilize that gear after it's return to Britain as memento of it's trip >across the Atlantic. >And, many British built locomotives were sold and used in South Africa, >South America, Cuba and India, where they would also have been equipped >with headlights as those countries do not have totally fenced off rights >of way. So, yes, in "general" it is correct to say that British >locomotives, at least in Britain, were not equipped with headlights, you >cannot say that it is absolutely incorrect for any British locomotive to >ever have a headlight. >Keith Taylor Jefferson, Maine > >
