And the next photo will have...(real railway version)

[BG John]

Y is a bit more local. Scanned from a grotty slide taken on 2nd May 1987.

 

I think we'll have to be off to foreign parts for Z.

[leopardml2341]

In advance of a 'Z', where will we go next?

[The Stationmaster]

Not just one Z but two!!  This rather short station is actually served by 8 car electric trains - but you need to be in the right coach in order to alight.

 

[TheSignalEngineer]

What about going for a full set of lamp/disc headcodes from A to K followed by a Royal Train and a Station Pilot?

Anyone for an Express Passenger headcode on an unusual loco?

Edited August 23, 2017 by TheSignalEngineer

[phil_sutters]

Is this unusual enough? OK it was a special, rather than a regular turn with a replacement for a failed loco, which would probably be one of the main reasons for the requested scenario.

Edited August 23, 2017 by phil_sutters

[The Stationmaster]

A rather poor photo from my young years but a GWR 'County' carrying Class B lamps back in 1958.  Clearly an ex-works engine but seen here at Reading so off the normal running-in territory,

 

[melmerby]

What about going for a full set of lamp/disc headcodes from A to K followed by a Royal Train and a Station Pilot?

Headcodes.JPG

Anyone for an Express Passenger headcode on an unusual loco?

Isn't that somewhat restrictive?

 

E.g. the GWR was different to the above list the Southern used a different system entirely. Don't know what the LNER/LMS did.

 

Keith

[phil_sutters]

The S&D right through into BR days used what is shown as class F above for its passenger headcode and the class D layout for its goods trains. Light engines had one lamp in the chimney position and shunters one in the class J position. The latter two positions are gleaned from photos.

[The Stationmaster]

Ah the S&D - where it seemed to have the opposite habit to every other railway and took the lamp positions as from the engine cab looking forward rather than as seen on an approaching train (or where its footplate staff applied that idea even if it was not actually meant!).   Serves 'em right for saving money and describing their headlamp codes in words rather than using illustrations like other Railways

 

Anyway moving forward here is a standard Class C headcode on an ex GWR engine -

 

 

 

[adb968008]

X. -- easy if you live in or visit China

Oh I missed X... and I had a real brain teaser for an X... right here in the U.K, taken in recent times too.

Will save it for the right moment.

Edited August 23, 2017 by adb968008

[BoD]

Oh I missed X... and I had a real brain teaser for an X... right here in the U.K, taken in recent times too.

Will save it for the right moment.

Ex eter?

[melmerby]

Ex eter?

Well there certainly isn't one shown in the official stations list unless you are use raillink bus stop codes!

 

Keith

Edited August 23, 2017 by melmerby

[phil_sutters]

I think this one fits the bill - without getting into the SDJR's non-standard use of the lamp layout.

 

E next please

[adb968008]

Well there certainly isn't one shown in the official stations list unless you are use raillink bus stop codes!

 

Keith

There are several, and not bus stops, though I did think about an airport. :-)

[leopardml2341]

Well there certainly isn't one shown in the official stations list unless you are use raillink bus stop codes!

 

Keith

 

 

There are several, and not bus stops, though I did think about an airport. :-)

 

 

XRD for instance is the Railink Code for Ryde Hoverport - but that doesn't have a nameboard beginning with ' X'

[phil_sutters]

Er - is anyone playing this game? I could finish on my own, with Dad's help, if no-one else has the photos!

[The Stationmaster]

Er - is anyone playing this game? I could finish on my own, with Dad's help, if no-one else has the photos!

 

I haven't delved too deeply into my older pics, especially the non-scanned ones, but from my own original pics I have a two Class G Class (one with the lamp in the wrong position for reasons which can be explained if it is posted), and then one Class H and two Class Ks lined up (which between them cover three different Regions/classes of engine) plus two of Pilot Lamps on what might be regarded as 'unusual' engines (two different types of 4-6-0).  From a quick search I haven't been able to lay hands on any others except for more examples of the ones I've just mentioned (and plenty of Class A ones plus some Class B).

 

I don't argue one bit with the subject SE has set as it's a good one but I suspect it's one that will have many people scratching for pics as effectively it is age of steam/early diesels & electrics so will have disappeared in the late 1960s (although Classification by letter had of course gone some years before that anyway although the headlamp codes still existed into the 1970s).  Thus it prnbably means that only those of us taking pictures in the early 1960s, or earlier, or folk like Phil with a family photo collection to draw on are going to be able to find suitable pics of our own.

[leopardml2341]

.....And I'm too young

[melmerby]

I didn't even consider headcodes and never paid any attention to them.

Also I didn't take many photos that long ago even though I had a basic Coronet camera in the late 50s (I couldn't afford the film!)

 

Keith

[Zomboid]

Lamp headcodes are a bit specialist. Only those of us at a wide selection of steam era photos are likely to have a lot of them.

[TheSignalEngineer]

If I go through all of the scruffy stuff I think the only one I haven't got is Class E, that didn't seem to get used much in our area. If it didn't have enough fitted head to qualify for Class D then they usually ran as Class F. I can probably turn up at least one (Class H) on an early diesel.

[phil_sutters]

Perhaps we had better start a new series of challenges. I appreciate that I am in a fortunate position of having Dad's archive, but it does give people an opportunity to see photos that would otherwise sleep on in his albums. As you will have seen my resources are mainly in the steam era, so perhaps someone with more modern images could kick off a new series.

Or if it helps to release the log jam you can have this 'E' - It's quite a nice photo into the bargain.

Edited August 24, 2017 by phil_sutters

[TheSignalEngineer]

Thanks Phil.

 

Scratchy shot of 7813 on Class F at Snow Hill in 1964

 

[96701]

Perhaps we had better start a new series of challenges. I appreciate that I am in a fortunate position of having Dad's archive, but it does give people an opportunity to see photos that would otherwise sleep on in his albums. As you will have seen my resources are mainly in the steam era, so perhaps someone with more modern images could kick off a new series.

Or if it helps to release the log jam you can have this 'E' - It's quite a nice photo into the bargain.

HCE GW 280T 5259 LMS 280 48761 Cardiff Gen 8 8 1960.jpg

I have no idea what all these lamps and letters mean, I even struggle with headcodes but I do like the photos. If I'm not contributing it gives me more time to enjoy others' contributions. Keep it up.

Edited August 24, 2017 by 96701

[phil_sutters]

I did think I didn't have a G - there is one of an auto-train at Chepstow, but I concluded that it was probably the tail light and that the loco was propelling, then I found this very sharp shot of Ludlow Castle