What type of windows were there on a 1930's steam train carriage?

Question

What type of windows were there on a 1930's steam train carriage?

Answer 1

There were 2 types basically.

The first was a traditional compartment with a central door to the platform and 2 narrow windows either side, a design that was inherited from stagecoach days. The side windows were called sidelights and the window in the door, because it could be raised and lowered, was called a droplight.

In the other type of carriage the doors were at the ends only, there was a gangway or corridor running through the carriage, and the windows were of a larger, more or less square format with sliding ventilators at the top. The ventilators were designed so that opened a certain distance apart they would not cause a draught, and the position was marked with small arrows.

Answer 2

Look at photographs ,door windows were full drop saloon windows were often twoway slides

Answer 3

sash windows?

Answer 4

oh dear that's a toughy - well they definitely weren't triple glazing!

When I think of a old fashioned carriage - the sort that had lots of 6 seater cabins off a corridor down one side - i see the window to be made up of a large lower window, with the top say 12 inches being a separate window split into four sections. The two outer sections were fixed in place, but in the centre of the upper window, there were two sliding windows about 12 inches square that slide apart to open, and had a catch in the middle to keep them shut.

Hope that helps??!!

edit---OK just looked on ebay for some model railway carriages and found this one which kinda confirms the senseless waffle I wrote above!!

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Answer 5

Are you actually asking if it was toughened glass fitted in 1930 then the answer would have to be no.

Answer 6

In UK carriages of the time the main windows slid down into the carriage body. They were operated by a leather strap - a bit like a vertical belt - it had holes every so often and there was a stud below the window so you could stop the window at whatever level was most comfortable bu putting the strap hole over this stud, thus holding the window at that level. There were also smaller opening windows in some carriages - small narrow ones above non-opening windows - which could be slid apart

Answer 7

square ones.