"BH Williams" wrote in message
...

A practice which continued on some continental railways on freight trains
until relatively recent times- whilst the more recent ones were a covered
section of platform,housing a screw brake, I have seen stock from as
recently as the inter-war period where the cabin was raised sufficently
for
the brakeman to have a view along the length of the train. The Southern
Railway built some four-wheel brakes for the Night Ferry which had a
similar
feature, albeit in the middle of the vehicle.

Hornby used to produce some French models of the vehicles with a brakeman's
cabin in the 1930s. I can remember seeing them in their catalogue, along
with a Nord 4-4-2 and CIWL cars.
--
Terry Harper, Web Co-ordinator, The Omnibus Society
75th Anniversary 2004, see http://www.omnibussoc.org/75th.htm
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