Hornby factory weathered LNER 0-6-0 J83

[Poe]

Hi all i signed up here in response to an interesting article i read on steam loco lighting (oil lamps) ive been away from model railways for many years, since 1986 infact, ive decided to start from scratch and create a dcc layout.

The first train ive bought is a hornby LNER j83 class loco, now concerning lighting, did these trains ever have any front and rear oil lamps? im interested in fitting a hornby dcc decoder chip to the loco and fitting front and rear oil lamps from express models UK. the loco will be shunting mixed frieight so which front lights should i use? (if any) also should i fit a rear red oil lamp?

This is just a basic model to begin with to get myself familiar with Digital dcc.

Many thanks for reading!

This is the loco in question:

 

[Tony]

Hi Poe and welcome......Good news and bads news Goods news is....................... yes they would have had lamps not for seeing things but to be identified eg lamps were used as a headcode to indicate the type of train and its contents dont have a list but lamps used at night, white discs used during the day...... there would have been 4 brackets 1 on the top of the smokehouse door the other three along the buffer beem..... if i remember .........
Just found this
http://www.dccconcepts.com/index_files/DCClocolightspecifics.htm

Now the bad news strickly your little engine is just that A bit Little for this forum not that we have anything against OO gauge and some of us collect it....This is really a G scale forum

Tony

 

[PaulRhB]

Hello Poe
As Tony said this is mainly a garden railway large scale forum, I'd join RMweb as it caters for all scales and several GSC members use that too.
Best of luck and maybe see you over on RMweb
Cheers Paul

 

[Poe]

Thanks for the information! ill sign up on the other forum thanks.