Headcodes: Disks, lamps and losing your way. 

was told by a collegue that this system has to be overridden when a freight train has different destinations each day. If signaller does not know this can accidentally send on wrong route. Phone call from driver usually sorts this out.

Only you Brits could make 33 combinations out of 6 positions!!! 😂 Hello from Victoria, Australia - I'm following your very interesting series' of videos 😃

Interesting to know how your numbering system works. In germany we had a numbering system very early on. Before releasing a train from a station the signaller calls the next station to announce the train. Usually a train has a certain number, for example 3555 and the next train of the same type driving the same direction has 3557. 3556 is a train going from 3555's destination to its start (Maybe just 3555 returning to the initial station). But as far as I know we don't have codes, like a 1 representing a passenger train. Good video👍

In some locations away from the Southern Railway, like Tyneside and Teesside local lamp headcodes on freight trains to give their destination or starting point. Those used on Teesside were in use until at 1976 when headcodes were no longer displayed. These local codes, which included the letter in the 4-character headcodes, only applied east of Tees Yard and had to be changed when passing there. On most regions of BR the letter A meant London, but originally, especially on the ECML, it meant an Express train (it changed around 1967, see the Napier Chronicles for details). The route would be indicated by the train number. On Teesside it mean one of three locations South Bank North Side, South Bank Coke Oven Plant or Tilery Sidings. The other letters used were K, M, S, G, P, J and O. These letters only applied to freight trains between Tees Yard and Skinningrove by, until the mid-1960s by either the Redcar or Guisborough routes, and applied in both the up and down directions.

Really interesting thank you and great idea having the illuminated train I am sure it will be a favourite .

Great video! Keep them coming.

In Sweden we have duble digit on the desintions signs in the Windows on the door of the coaches.

I'm not sure it's entirely true that SR was the only railway to use discs as I have seen a couple of photos of LNER B17's carrying them on the London Liverpool Street to Norwich line. That said, they are rare examples of the practice!

U were the fireman instructor on the 9f when LaZeRJET was doing his experience

hi great video, what about featuring your live vids with interviews on here???

Nice

4:00 anyone recognise the song? E: found it, "Classical Inspiring Strings", by Rafael Krux.

this is increadibly interesting information... though I do not feel that it warrents dramatic music being played over the top of it.

What does all lamps mean in front

4:33 wtf thomas the tank engine is doing here 🤣🤣

Is that Thomas the tank engine ????? Without number 1 or face ? It looks like it