Tender Gallery
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Locomotive 4096, Highclere Castle with its wartime black out screen, c.1940
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4000 gallon locomotive tender showing new lettering, February 1945
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Unloading the tender of King George V from the ship at Baltimore, 1927
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Locomotive 4096, Highclere Castle with its wartime black out screen, c.1940
A train speeding through the countryside at night was a prime target for the German Luftwaffe. The glow from the locomotive firebox and light from the carriages made a train all too visible to the enemy. One of the blackout measures introduced by the GWR was the anti-glare screen. This image of Castle Class locomotive, Highclere Castle, shows an anti-glare screen attached to the cab roof and tender. During daylight the screen could be rolled back and, should an air raid be called, it could be quickly pulled back over the cab. This screen only covered the roof of the cab, but some screens covered the sides too