L&M Headlamp

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Has anyone succeeded in making that enormous headlamp work?

It would look good. There doesn`t seem a lot of room at the back, but perhaps an LED might be encouraged to fit.
 
It looks far too impressive not to use, although by all accounts you would be one up on the L&M who rarely, if ever, used them. Presumably there weren't any elephants or buffalo in the Manifold valley.
 
Well Ah dunno, it gets pretty dark up yon valley! ;)
 
Is the lamp removeable? If so I recon with a bit of luck a 3mm warm white led could be got into it, would depend on its construction I guess, if its hollow and you can get it off its a simple task....
 
Seems to be solid Trev, and as you can see in the pic, on a bracket, but as yet I can't see how the lamp or bracket exit the loco. Looks possible that it has a screw up the centre. It might be a job best done at the same time as fitting a chuffer pipe.
 
I've just had a pretty good look and there's not a lot to see. The smoke-box door doesn't open, so the only way is to shine a torch from underneath and there's too much clutter in the way to see. It will need to wait until the smoke-box is removed to fit a chuffer, a necessity anyway, according to the Summerlands site.
 
I have fitted an LED into the lamp on the front of my Roundhouse Fowler, visible from 3:15 in the video....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96DRzTPKZMc
 
That looks pretty effective. I've had another look and I think a hole would need to be drilled from the bottom up to the back of the reflector, which would of course leave the LED vertical. not sure if it would give as good light in that direction.
 
Depends on how much light you want I guess.... The headlights in my steam tram are well and truly throttled back, I was trying to imitate the light from a kero lamp with a mantle.. drill a hole big enough to get a 3mm warm white LED in that has been bent at 90 to the leads so the LED points in the direction you wish to illuminate... the flat leds are a bit shorter; http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/10pcs-3mm-FLAT-TOP-Wide-Angle-Warm-White-LED-3v-6v-9v-12v-Free-Resistor-FT3WW-/140880881733?pt=AU_B_I_Electrical_Test_Equipment&hash=item20cd27a845
 
From looking at the time table examples in my L&M book the light would have only been needed in the winter months on one return trip, apparently the use of large lights was to get away with minimal fencing . Lovely film of the Fowler too Elm Tree Line . :)
 
I think a vertical Led would be quite authentic looking - after all, the oil lamp had a vertical flame and relied on the reflector to direct the illumination.
 
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