stock_2007 Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Hi I hope this is the right place for this anyway. The yellow flashing light fitted to the class 33/1 for working the Weymouth quey was it permanent fitting or would it have been removed after the loco left Weymouth. As always thank you for any help. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted September 18, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2012 It was a plug-in unit and was not permanently fitted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 A picture here - http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brcwclass33/h20119ED3#h2bed0390 Flashing orange light fitted to the lamp bracket. Same sort of thing shown here: May have been different in earlier days Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted September 19, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2012 A picture here - http://paulbartlett....19ED3#h2bed0390 Flashing orange light fitted to the lamp bracket. Same sort of thing shown here: http://www.flickr.co...N05/6101310782/ May have been different in earlier days Note that in the linked picture the lamp is not in fact placed on the lamp bracket but is plugged into a socket specially fitted to several class 33 locos for the purpose IIRC. The lamp and bell units were kept at Weymouth and not allowed to "roam". Electric power generated by the locomotive was used for the warning device. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock_2007 Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 Thank you all for your help, on a kind of side note could anyone point me toward where I could find a track plan of the Weymouth quey-side area. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I had noticed the warning device was in two different positions in the two pictures; it seemed to be in the right place for the lamp bracket in the first, but near the centre in the other. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenton Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 (edited) Thank you all for your help, on a kind of side note could anyone point me toward where I could find a track plan of the Weymouth quey-side area. By far the best text on the line is given in the book The Weymouth Harbour Tramway by John Lucking OPC ISBN 0860933040 - a must have book for anyone with an interest in the line. It covers the history in detail and all the "many" changes to the track plan, it also contains some very good photographs of the line and its locos. Another "thinner" reference is given in the Middleton Press "Branch Lines Around Weymouth" ISBN 0906520657 which contains a not to scale line schematic and a few photos. I also recommend a search of RMWeb where there is a previous thread (or two) discussion the tramway with further references. Edited September 23, 2012 by Kenton Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Oxlade Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 (edited) As far as I know, (and reading various references, not that means they are correct), ALL 33s that became 33/1s were fitted with the socket when they went in to have the high-level hoses, jumpers, buffing-plate, etc. fitted as part of the push-pull modifications in 1968. Edited October 15, 2013 by John Oxlade Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Oxlade Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Actually, I am going to correct myself. Looking through Middleton Press' "Wareham to Swanage, 50 years of change", there's a photo of D6529 converted with high-level brake pipes but it DOES NOT have the lamp socket below the left-hand lamp bracket, so either they weren't fitted at the same time or not all had them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slilley Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 15/10/2013 at 20:04, John Oxlade said: Actually, I am going to correct myself. Looking through Middleton Press' "Wareham to Swanage, 50 years of change", there's a photo of D6529 converted with high-level brake pipes but it DOES NOT have the lamp socket below the left-hand lamp bracket, so either they weren't fitted at the same time or not all had them. It appears to be the case the sockets were added later. I have several pictures of 33s post conversion to push-pull that will appear in my forthcoming book on the class and the socket is absent. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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