minister_for_hardship Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Noticed a few photos going around of new and nearly new GM diesels (already equipped with electric lighting) sporting steam-era oil headlamps. Also there are CIE publicity shots of a 001 in SuperTrain garb and modern electric lights also carrying white-painted oil lamps. When did oil headlamps cease to be used? Not counting RPSI specials and similar here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Mayner Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 (edited) The oil headlamps were mainly to assist the signal man to identify the class of an approaching train, though most GSR/CIE mainline passenger and goods trains used to display the UK Express Passenger code (a lamp over each buffer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_reporting_number#Headcodes. The practice of using oil headlamps seems to have died out in the early 1970s when CIE introduced a computerised train control and the 1st stages of widespread CTC. Edited August 15, 2015 by Mayner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Noticed a few photos going around of new and nearly new GM diesels (already equipped with electric lighting) sporting steam-era oil headlamps.
Also there are CIE publicity shots of a 001 in SuperTrain garb and modern electric lights also carrying white-painted oil lamps.
When did oil headlamps cease to be used? Not counting RPSI specials and similar here.
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