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Certainly towards the end of the steam era the East Coast pacifics and Bulleids that were fitted with Stones lighting suffered from poor maintenance and oil lamps were often used as well as / instead of the electric ones. The Southern, of course, used route discs as well. Don't forget that the position of the smokebox numberplate also moved on the A1s, the early location was higher than the final position!

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One difference is that on the continent they don't have a fully fenced PW so need headlights more than we do!

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You also need to remember that European locos had good acetylene lamps before they had electric ones, a technology we never really embraced on the UK network.

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