WW2 LNER locomotive blackout fittings?

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Also, on page 31, there is a photo of K3 3816 fitted with a blackout screen with the following caption:

"Following the Munich political crisis at the end of September 1938, air raid precautions deemed it prudent to diminish glare when a firebox door had to be opened. Ex-works on 8th October 1938, No.3816 had been fitted with tarpaulin screen from rear edge of cab roof to front of tender, and that device was universal throughout the 1939-1945 war."

I hadn't expected them to be fitted so early.

Regards

Simon

The advent of war was considered inevitable and preparations started at least as early as 1937, with the construction or hardening of structures such as signal boxes, alternate District Control centres, creation of alternate/diversionary routes, reduced timetables, plans for troop movements and evacuation of schoolchildren, creation of air raid shelters and 'one-man' shelters for yard staff and suchlike, stockpiling essential materiel for repairs and reconstruction, as well as stores, air raid precautions, and so on - the list is lengthy. The Munich Crisis in Autumn 1938 ('peace in our time'!) only hastened preparations that were already underway.

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