 | | Brittish Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train —Mathew Clayson
| | | | (...) Mark, I'm in the US, but I'm modeling some Thomas and Friends engins and cars. Perhaps you can explain a bit regarding GB train operation, past and present. I notice a white lantern, sometimes 2, placed on the front foot plate on many engines. (...) (19 years ago, 23-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train —Tim David
| | | | | (...) Until the mid-to-late 50s the headlamps formed a code to denote the type of train. There were four positions, centre, left and right along the footplate and top of the smokebox door. See (URL) this site> for more info (scroll down a bit for (...) (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train —Mathew Clayson
| | | | | (...) snipped (...) Tim, that was extremely useful, thank you. I'm assuming that Thomas with two coaches would be a B class, same for Toby with his coach and baggag car. Is the red end of train light mounted high or low? Mat (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train —Tim David
| | | | | (...) I would have thought so, although as I said it varied slightly from railway to railway so I wouldn't worry about it too much. The red light on the end is normally mounted just above one of the buffers, i.e. low down to one side. Tim PS I was (...) (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train —Mark Bellis
| | | | | (...) In the illustrations from the original Awdry books, Thomas has his front lamp on top of the smokebox when pulling a passenger train such as Annie and Clarabel. This indicates a stopping passenger train, class 2. Gordon, on the other hand, has (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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