Shunter's Lamps

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Just thought folks might be interested in how Andrew Hall and I  used to cope with shunting during the night sequences!  I built a couple of shunter's lamps using standard PP9 (9 volt) batteries, connection caps soldered to copper/paxolin which in turn was glued to a piece of brass sheet which was bent to form the lamp holder, standard push-to-make/push-to-break switches which were glued to the brass sheet, a 12v lamp and a second piece of copper/paxolin which served as a lamp holder and (when burnished, which I did with a glass fibre brush) reflector!  The lamp was placed behind the coupling to be dealt with and provided light in the right place to allow the coupling to be seen!  Great stuff and added a bit of atmosphere!  (Special note - these still use the original batteries which are finally beginning to run down!)  These days of course I use my version of the excellent lighted shunter's hook which I first saw Charlie Insley using.