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Does anyone know what the white board with cross on the top lamp bracket in this image signifies please?

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Is it a route indicator? In the manner of the GE section discs, some all white, some white bordered around either a black or blue centre.

Not on a special is it?

robertcwp wrote:Does anyone know what the white board with cross on the top lamp bracket in this image signifies please?
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It's an indicator that the train is for Wembley Stadium Station via the loop.

Are those Quint-arts behind the loco, and if so presumably the train originated on the GE section?

Although maybe not because 67774 was a GN based loco.

It is just that I assumed each articulated set of coaches had a brake at each end and I cant see one on the fourth coach, so dismissed my quad-art theory.

Looks like a Finsbury Park set of Quad-arts.

Bill Bedford wrote:

robertcwp wrote:Does anyone know what the white board with cross on the top lamp bracket in this image signifies please?
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It's an indicator that the train is for Wembley Stadium Station via the loop.

Thanks.

strang steel wrote:It is just that I assumed each articulated set of coaches had a brake at each end and I cant see one on the fourth coach, so dismissed my quad-art theory.

The full set was a pair of Quads, each of which had a guards brake compartment at just one end; coupled up so that the brake ends were either end of the train, to make a fully reversible fixed formation with the maximum capacity for the walking freight.