Old, potentially rare train lamp
Discussion
loggo said:
Not a guards van lamp .There would be two brackets for a sidelight. And a red lens for a tail light. Looks to have been badly painted a funny colour. Any indication of the original ?
Apparently white. A colleague knows a couple of train people and they said a rear lamp.Unsure of age though
It's definately a steam loco headlight of LMS/BR vintage, looks like traces of black paint beneath the non original orange, BR pretty much adopted this style for it's standard loco head lights. Black was the colour used by the LMS with BR changing to white in the mid 50's, loco's would have carried several as the positioning of the 4 lamp brackets on the front indicated what type of train was approaching. Firemen would then place one or two lamps on the front(rear if running bunker/tender first)lamp irons
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