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norbitonflyer said:
I understand the flowerpots were fitted to provide extra ballast weight. Were the match trucks another solution to the same problem? - most of the ones I recall worked with 03s with "witches hat" exhausts.
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The flower pots were fitted to improve weight distribution. The match trucks were to help with the locos’ activation of track circuits.
 
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