Class 24 Headcodes.

[Paul_C]

I've noticed from a number of photos that the Sulzer 2 Class 24s didn't appear to display headcodes and window blinds, was this generally the case? If not which ones would have been applied around the Faversham/Sittingbourne area please?

 

Paul. 

[slilley]

The Class 24s on loan to the Southern Region prior to the completion of the Kent coast electrification scheme all had disc headcodes and there are certainly pictures of them being used when the locos were working trains then. Pallant & Bird's book Diesel & Electric Locomotives of the Southern Region is an example.

[bécasse]

They always carried the appropriate disc head code when they were the leading loco of a train on the SED 1959-1961. However the drivers  considered that they weren't up to working a main line service on their own so, during the winter months, they were coupled inside Cromptons as mobile steam heating boilers and obviously they didn't carry a meaningful head code in that role (the Cromptons displaying a numerical head code, typically 4 or 18). They did work 3 or 4 car local services on their own, always with the relevant disc head code display.