London Brighton and South Coast Railway Luggage Labels
The Last Ten Years
| by Mike
Morant |
| Someone in the LBSCR's administration department must have finally realised that the production and maintenance of a label regime which required a different set of labels for each and every station on the system was a time consuming and expensive overhead. The outcome was a change of policy which saw the advent of three previously unknown features on The Brighton's luggage labels: a stock number and labels with no station of origin. |
| The RPS's designation for these labels printed on green paper is L45/ which is sub-divided as shown hereunder: |
| 1 = no station of origin |
| 2 = with station of origin |
| A = Code '34G' on medium green paper |
| B = Code '167 34G' on medium green paper |
| C = Code '167 34G' on olive green paper |
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| L45/1A | L45/1B | L45/1C |
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| L45/2A | L45/2B | L45/2C |
It is sometimes difficult to visually differentiate between the
'B' and 'C' types in artificial light but there are two other
means by which they can be separated:
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| All the green labels are to mainland LBSCR destinations only
with the obvious exception of the Victoria blank label illustrated. The only
stations of origin are Victoria, London Bridge, Brighton and Eastbourne.
The 'A' and 'B' types are prone to discolouration as shown in the Fratton & Southsea example above but the 'C' type fares much better in that regard. It is generally accepted that the olive green type was the final fling for LBSCR luggage labels and yet it is the poorer quality lighter green siblings that were perpetuated into Southern Railway days if only for a very short time. |
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This page was last updated 23 November 2007
